State lawmakers to look to clarify recreational pot rules


A committee of Senate and House members want to establish clarity surrounding Measure 91’s taxation and how its passage affects medical marijuana rules.

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A committee of Senate and House members want to establish clarity surrounding Measure 91’s taxation and how its passage affects medical marijuana rules.

Leaders and members were announced Thursday as part of a list of legislative committee appointments for the 2015 session, which opens Jan. 12.

Among questions the committee may take up are local taxation on retail sales, in addition to the state tax authorized by Measure 91, and a potential merger of regulation of medical marijuana — which has existed since voters approved it in 1998 — and recreational marijuana.

Read more at the Portland Tribune.




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