Ballot measure could legalize weed

November 4, 2014
robomayor
Idaho, Policy & Legal
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With election day just hours away, one item on the Oregon ballot that could have some people smoking and others smoking mad.

You won’t see Measure 91 on your Idaho ballot when you go to vote Tuesday, but people in the Gem State are taking a close look at the Oregon vote.

Oregon has legalized medicinal use of marijuana since 1999. The policy has many restrictions. Measure 91 would lift many of the restrictions on weed, and that could mean big money. But even shops in the smoke business have concerns.

“This is gray area,” said Flora Gibbs, owner of Happy Hippy smoke shop in Ontario. “Federally, it’s not right, it’s not legal. Yet our state says it’s okay. So you have that thought ‘gosh, am I doing something wrong, am I not?'” [Read More]

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Rob Meagher, CBE’s Founder, President and Editor-in-Chief is a 30 year veteran of the media world. His career has spanned from stints representing the Washington Post, USA Weekend, Reader’s Digest, Financial World & Corporate Finance to the technology world where he worked at International Data Group and Ziff Davis where he was part of the launch team for The Web Magazine, Yahoo Internet Life, Smart Business and Expedia Travels before starting his own marketing and Publisher’s Representative Firm. He also ran all print and online media sales and marketing for the Society for Human Resource Management before partnering with Forbes and then Fortune to create Special Sections covering a variety of topics. Rob, who started CBE Press in 2014, can be contacted at [email protected]

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