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Pot in Albany: Sales ban possible

Written August 10th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 11 responses.

If the Albany City Council wants once again to wade into the thicket of marijuana regulation, it can do so under Oregon laws passed this year. Among other things it could ban the sale of recreational marijuana, but the ban would have to be submitted to the voters in the 2016 general election.

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City pot tax: So what do voters know?

Written October 20th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 9 responses.

Is there something in Oregon’s plentiful water that is making city councils — including four members of  Albany’s — want to seem tone deaf, or greedy, or contemptuous of voters, or any combination thereof?

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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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