The measure will technically take effect next month, but the sections allowing legal marijuana possession do not go into effect until next summer.
The measure will technically take effect next month, but the sections allowing legal marijuana possession do not go into effect until next summer.
And residents won’t be able to buy marijuana from a state-licensed retailer until sometime in 2016 after the Oregon Liquor Control Commission has adopted rules to regulate the new marketplace and granted licenses to growers, wholesalers and retailers.
After Tuesday’s vote, “the only thing that is going to change is that the OLCC is going to start the (rule-making) process,” said Dave Kopilak, a Portland attorney and primary drafter of Measure 91. “Outside of that agency, none of the laws for us normal citizens are going to change for the next seven months or so.”
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