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Abridging our gun rights: Initiative 17

Written July 20th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 41 responses.

Proposed Initiative 17 has qualified for the statewide Oregon ballot in November. Its Portland sponsors call it the “Reduction of Gun Violence Act.” Another name that fits better would be “Making Gun Buying More Complicated and Expensive Act.”

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Council eyes potential pot limits

Written May 23rd, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 10 responses.

Don’t count on being able to buy recreational marijuana at many places in Albany if it becomes legal in the city at all. Maps prepared for the city council suggest there may be few if any locations where sales would be allowed.

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Marijuana initiative: What’s in it

Written June 26th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 5 responses.

So it looks as though we’ll be voting this fall on an initiative to create and regulate a legal industry supporting the recreational use of  marijuana. The sponsors turned in more than 145,000 signatures Thursday. They claimed to have checked many of them for their validity even before the state does the same, and they needed only 87,213. So […]

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