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Special marijuana committee created by Oregon Senate president to handle medical pot

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 08:00

Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, moving to end a legislative impasse over a sweeping medical marijuana measure, on Wednesday created a special Senate committee to deal with the issue. 

The new committee is charged with moving a measure through the Senate that is aimed at cracking down on black-market diversions by medical marijuana growers.  The House-Senate committee on implementing the marijuana legalization initiative approved by voters has been deadlocked over the issue of how much power to give cities and counties to ban medical marijuana dispensaries and processors in their areas.

Sen. Ginny Burdick, who co-chairs the House-Senate panel and will chair the new Senate committee, said she thinks she can win a strong bipartisan majority on the Senate floor -- which she said could help sway the House.

Burdick, D-Portland, and other Senate members of the marijuana committee support allowing city and county governments to bar medical marijuana...

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