2010 Archive: Pot of Gold – Oregon Cannabis Tax Act Media Coverage – KATU – PORTLAND, Ore. – While state budgets in Oregon and Washington face gaping holes, advocates of legalizing marijuana say taxing pot can help fill those holes. Madeline Martinez, Oregons executive director for NORML, the national organization thats pushing to reform marijuana laws, says she sees a golden opportunity to convince people that legalizing marijuana could be a good thing after all. Why dont we capture the revenue thats just being lost to the criminal market in many regards and bring it to the people. Were the ones who deserve it, she says. Her group estimates the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, if passed by voters, would generate 0 million a year in revenue, 90 percent of which would go to the states general fund. The rest would go primarily to drug abuse treatment programs, Martinez says.

 

Adolescents in substance abuse programs report using other's med marijuana

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Stacy Salomonsen-Sautel, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the CU School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology and her colleagues in the Department of Psychiatry looked at two adolescent substance abuse treatment programs in the Denver metropolitan …
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Legislature Sends Prescription Drug Monitoring Bill to Governor

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Under the bill, prescribers would automatically be enrolled in the state's Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) when they renew their controlled substance prescribing license. They will then be required to use the PMP to review a new … To promote …
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Inside-Trader Jiau Sues Over Drug Program Expulsion

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Jiau claimed a substance abuse program staffer at the Dublin, California, prison humiliated her and retaliated against her in response to answers she provided during a “journal group” about her crimes. The staffer said she couldn't be in the treatment …
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