REUTERS: Oregon ready to put pot legalization to voters, proponents say

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[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: none; border-radius: 0.3846em 0.3846em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Oregon ready to put pot legalization to voters, proponents say[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: none; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3846em 0.3846em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"](Reuters) - Oregon will soon qualify as the third state to ask voters in November to legalize marijuana for recreational use, proponents said Friday, a move that would put the state on a collision course with the federal government.

Backers of the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act said they have collected 165,000 signatures on petitions seeking to put the measure on the November ballot, nearly double the 87,000 they were required to submit by Friday's deadline to qualify.

"We believe we're going to make it easily," said Paul Stanford, the chief petitioner and founder of the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation, which runs medical marijuana clinics in several states.

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If passed by voters in November, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act would allow marijuana sales in the state to people over age 21, and would create jobs in the hemp industry by allowing it for clothing, food and other uses, the campaign's website said.

More at the link! No state has legalized marijuana for recreational use...yet. If it passes, "collision course" is an understatement!

PB

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1. Kick for the evening crowd! nt

PB

[nilram]

2. I signed it (outside of TJ's on NW Glisan). I don't use, I just don't think its a problem.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. This is still not a done deal.

Election officials have been invalidating signatures at record high levels. Of the first 108,000 handed in, only 55,000 were found to be valid. Now they've handed in another 57,000 and 32,000 have to be valid. The campaign said it tightened up signature-gathering after that first round of invalidations, but it's still nail-biting time.