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From: leroysoetoro@barackobama.com

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oregon-lawmakers-sign-2-laws-to-deal- with-massive-marijuana-surplus

After legalizing marijuana in 2015, officials in Oregon began liberally
doling out licenses to growers in an effort to shift sales away from the
black market toward the now-legalized industry.

The plan worked, but created another problem: Oregon now has way more pot
than its 4 million residents can ever possibly hope to smoke.

According to a 2019 Oregon Liquor Control Commission report, there are
about 2,100 grower licensees in the state with enough weed currently on
the market that it would take an estimated 6.5 years to sell it all within Oregon without any more production. The glut of marijuana has driven the
price of marijuana down and left Oregonians wondering how they’ll handle
the weed windfall.

In an attempt to remedy the state’s cannabis conundrum, lawmakers in
Oregon signed off on two news bills in the last week that would,
respectively, cut down on excessive cultivation of marijuana and find new markets for the state's budding pot industry.

Senate Bill 218 hands the Oregon Liquor Control Board more authority in
issuing new licenses to growers based on the supply and demand for weed,
while Senate Bill 582 lays the groundwork to eventually allow the governor
to enter into agreements with other states for the importing and exporting
of marijuana.

It is currently illegal to transport marijuana across state borders so any moves from the governor’s mansion in Salem would have to wait until
lawmakers in Washington D.C. decide to make drastic changes to the
nation’s drug laws – a situation that seems unlikely given the Trump administration’s less-than-friendly stance toward legal marijuana.

Currently recreational marijuana is legal in 11 states and medical
marijuana is legal in 33, and marijuana advocates argue that states like
Oregon wouldn’t be running into this surplus issue if the substance were permitted to be shipped out of state.

“You have people using water in the desert in Nevada to grow mediocre
cannabis, or in Florida, where they have to dehumidify giant spaces,
consuming twice the energy,” Adam J. Smith, founder and director of the
Craft Cannabis Alliance based in Oregon, told the Los Angeles Times.
“Oregon wouldn't have an oversupply problem if we could access legal
markets like these.”


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denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
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Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
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The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
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Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
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