legalize it 2.0

oregon legalize it 2.0:

The State of Oregon Canabis legalization reform CItizen initiative;
Citizens' initiative 420
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Initiative to re-legalize Cannabis in the United States in year

Initiative to re-legalize Cannabis & Hashish in the State of Oregon

OFFICIAL TITLE
100% Complete re-legalization of Cannabis & Hashish

FULL TEXT OF PROPOSITION

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Oregon of America, the Constitution of the State of Arizona is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW ARTICLE to read:

100% complete re-legalization of Cannabis & hashish

1. The government shall recognize that Cannabis abuse is NOT a criminal problem but a medical problem.

2. The government shall NOT tax, regulate, or pass any laws governing Cannabis or Cannabis activities.

3. The government shall NOT assist any other government entities, such as Federal, foreign, world, Native American or state governments in enforcing any laws against Cannabis.

4. The government shall NOT pass any guide lines, rules, regulations or laws discriminating against people or entities that use Cannabis. Such as laws that limit a Cannabis user's guns rights or parental rights.

5. Any person convicted of any Cannabis offense in the past shall automatically have their criminal record cleared of those charges and automatically receive a full pardon for those charges.

6. Any person arrested for any Cannabis offense in the past who accepted a plea bargain for reduced charges shall automatically have their criminal record cleared of those reduced charges and automatically receive a full pardon for those reduced charges.

7. Any government employee, agent, elected official, judge, law enforcement officer or prosecutor that falsely arrests a person, violates a person's rights, passes a law or issues a ruling, guideline or edict that that interferes with a person's Cannabis use rights defined here shall be personally and civilly liable to each person for each incident for a minimum of $1 million in damages or 10 times the actual amount of damages whichever is greater. There shall be no immunity to a person who claims to be "acting in good faith" or for any other reason.

8 . All government courts shall accept cases involving Cannabis use, and decide the case based on the oral, written, or other contracts of the parties involved. Courts may not refuse cases by saying that Cannabis is illegal under Federal law, international law, or other laws.

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The STate of Oregon shall have authority to tax the sales of Cannabis at a rate of 14.444444444444% at sale. Counties may levy up to a 3.333333333333% tax and cities may levy up to a 2.222222222222% tax on the sales of Cannabis. State taxes will be disbursed to cover services/programs provided to the public under this bill, with excesses going directly into the State's general fund.

People have the right to be in control of their own body and to know the origin or source, processes by which they are elaborated and rendered, constituents, safety information or health effects, or environmental impact of the drugs they consume or come in contact with. It shall be the duty of the State of Oregon, within the Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, and the Oregon Liquor control comission as well as any other department, administration, agency, or bureau appointed through the legislature Oregona, to regulate, enforce, as well as fulfill duties of testing and ensuring the purity of commercial drug products, classify and approve or prohibit additives to drugs, labeling ingredients and dosage of drug products. The right of Individuals to establish private certification and testing services is guaranteed. Producers, Wholesalers, and Retailers must meet strict requirements for testing, packaging, and labeling of products to meet these ends.

Cannabis consumers shall possess the right to the fair access of good quality of cannabis and its products, to training and information, to the protection of health, safety and their economic interests, and to reparation for damages due to manufacturing/malfunction, impurity/testing, or packaging/labeling error. Illness or death due to misuse, abuse, user error, drug interaction, or overdose will not be a liability on the part of manufacturers, distributors, or retailers; It is the responsibility of all Cannabis users to take their safety and other liabilities in their life seriously and into their own hands.

The manufacture, sale, or transportation of Cannabis within, the importation thereof into or the exportation thereof from the State of Oregon for consumption purposes are legal for use by Persons who are eighteen or older, by minors with a qualifying medical or psychological condition who are undergoing treatment provided they have legal guardian consent, by those aged fourteen or older provided they have legal guardian presence and consent or are in the presence of someone who is eighteen or older with authorization/permission from the legal guardian, or by those aged eight or older who are partaking in a spiritual or religious practice or rite provided they have guardian presence and consent or are in the presence of someone who is eighteen or older with authorization/permission from their legal guardian, however the legal guardian and the potential authorized/permitted party are legally liable under child endangerment laws if the child uses Cannabis to the point of inebriation or becomes ill due to the Cannabis substance/s consumed.

Personal use of Cannabis, including the organic parent sources, raw or dry material or preparations thereof, and also the extracts of any drug related compounds found within living organisms, without a license are not unlawful and shall not be an offense. Personal use of Cannabis includes but is not limited to; Possessing, using or consuming, displaying, purchasing, or transporting drug accessories or personal amounts of psychoactive substances; Possessing, growing, processing, or transporting personal amounts of Cannabis, and possession of the psychoactive substances produced by them; Transfer of personal amounts of Cannabis without re-muneration to a Person who is eighteen or older or authorized to possess them; Assisting another Person who is eighteen or older or authorized, in any way described as personal use of Cannabis.

The manufacture, sale, or transportation of psychoactive related natural or synthetic compounds are to be licensed and regulated by the Oregon liquor control comission, who shall receive and enforce regulations of psychoactive substances through legislation passed by the State legislature, and who by request and review, shall approve or deny applications for commercial psychoactive substance licenses, based on acceptance criteria set forth through the State Legislature. There shall be a license required for each stage of a drugs manufacture and delivery; There shall be a Producer license, a Processor license, a Transportation license, a Trader/Wholesaler license, and a Retailer license; Producer licenses shall cover the cultivation of drug bearing organisms and the commercial manufacture of drugs such as extraction or chemical synthesis; A Processor license enables the creation of products other than raw psychoactive substances such as edibles and vaporization cartridges; A certification and testing services license allows facilities to formally test psychoactive substances and their products for, amoung other things, constituency and purity; A transportation license enables greater than personal quantities of psychoactive substances to be transported legally; A trader/wholesaler license regards the wholesale of psychoactive substances from a producer or processor, using a transporter, being brought to the wholesaler, and then sold to the retailer for eventual sale to the end customer. A retailer license enables the sale of psychoactive substances to adults in the general public; Each commercial psychoactive substance license shall cost $120; Multiple licenses may be held by an Individual or business/company at a time.

Testing for all cannabis shall state the percentage of each cannabinoid in it by the total mass of the product, both active and inactive. Each product shall be labeled with suggested single dose size and maximum daily dosage, along with total dosage, for all cannabinoids within it.

The Oregon State Liquor Control Comission shall commence in randomized product purity testing for the purposes of determining testing labratories that falsify their results.

There are no limitations on the times of day or week or year that intoxicating substances may be served to a customer.

Establishments may not serve or sell cannabis to anybody who is visibly intoxicated.

Retailers are required to check for valid photo identification and verify each customer is an adult.

Samples may be given away by establishments of any individual cannabis product they provide, as long as their provisions constitute no more than a one day personal supply provided per person per day.

All cannabis sold must be in recycleable child-proof packaging, as well as labeled with their active ingredient/s, dosage of one serving, and medical warnings.
[]printouts/pamplets must be freely distributed and package must link to the new atlantian information page for cannabis[] required to suggest that a customer may take a pamphlet, but they are not required to take it[]

There are no limitations in place concerning the times of day, week, or year that Cannabis may be sold or consumed.

All advertising for Cannabis must not include depicted use of Cannabis, whether real or simulated, or glorify illegal behavior, such as operating a motorized/powered vehicle/craft while under the influence of Cannabis, or Cannabis use by a minor.

Cannabis production, processing, retailing, and consumption may not take place within 300 meters of a school, recreation/youth center, or correctional facility; This provision does not affect personal grows and use on private proeprty.
[]cannabis may be grown in public view and within proximity to schools, etc...[]

Cannabis may be used openly in public. Adult recreational users may engage in the recreational cultivation and use of Cannabis in plain view of, or in a place open to, the general public. It is a crime for an operator of any motorized/powered vehicle/craft to be intoxicated by Cannabis while the vehicle is on public property including ways.

Regarding Persons and Cannabis, they shall be entitled to produce, possess, trade, buy or sell, and use as much as they may desire, of any variety available to them, for whatever purposes they may need for it. Persons growing or using cannabis for fuel for their vehicles/crafts, machines, industry, and heating or powering of their homes and businesses, shall be eligible for green energy tax credits from New Atlantia, based on the units in kilograms of cannabis biomass used. Cannabis shall be free of excise taxes. It is a right of the People to produce, possess, trade, buy or sell, and use Cannabis. Commercial Cannabis shall be not be subject to limitations on quantity.

[]commercial cannabis may be licensed and regulated by the Oregon Liquor control comission[]

Vendors of cannabis and its accessories/paraphernalia may not distribute to a minor; Commercial producers, processors, and retailers/vendors of cannabis and its accessories/paraphernalia may not operate within proximity to any correctional facility, school grounds, or a recreation or youth center.

Cannabis businesses shall be eligible for all tax deductions as in other forms of business.

The People have a right to establish vendors of Cannabis and Cannabis accessories/paraphernalia, also known as dispensaries and head shops; The People have a right to establish agriculture and nurseries, processors and [compound]-chemists, head shops, as well as dispensaries, for the production and/or sale of Cannabis and natural Cannabinoids.

use on site of sale allowed (good for cannabis cafes)
cannabis clubs may allow smoking of cannabis (ONLY) inside
use at concerts and other get togethers allowed so long as the property owneer allows it (private contract dictates, not public law)

Cannabis Producers, Traders or Retailers, and Consumers retain the Right to own, manufacture, sell, and bear arms as guaranteed to them by this Constitution.

The Legislature is empowered to enact legislation effectual to this initiative. The Legislature may amend this initiative by a simple majority vote, or move to repeal it, in favor of a more fitting enumeration that is representative in spirit to this initiative, by simple majority vote, otherwise it must be amended or repealed by the Citizens through a simple majority vote.

Section. 2. OR 3.

Definitions

1. For this initiative the word "Cannabis" refers to any form of Cannabis, marijuana, hashish or hemp and includes concentrated forms such as THC, CBD, hash, hash oil, wax, shatter and all other forms. This includes all parts of any plant of the genus cannabis, whether growing or not, the seeds of such plant, the resin extracted from any part of a plant of the genus cannabis; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of such plant, its seeds or its resin; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of such resin or tetrahydrocannabinol. This includes, but will not be limited to; all paraphernalia for Cannabis use, such as pipes, bongs, cigarette papers, or dabbing tools.

2. "Cannabis activities" shall be defined as; but shall not be limited to: using, smoking, vaping, eating, consuming, drinking, snorting, transdermal delivery, injecting, sale, transfer, growth, cultivating, manufacture, processing, cooking, production, storage, possession, giving legal advice, transportation, or importation of Cannabis. This includes any form of "Cannabis use": recreational, religious, medical, commercial, industrial or any other use.

3. In this Initiative, “To regulate” is to “make regular”, that is, to facilitate the free flow of Cannabis goods, but not, except in cases of danger, to prohibit the flow of any Cannabis good. "Make regular" is analogous to "make usual" or "make ordinary".