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Oregon lawmakers to consider sales tax for retail marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:41

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers will consider creating a sales tax for marijuana in place of fees applied to growers, the method approved by voters in last year's ballot measure legalizing the drug.

The idea is contained in a lengthy bill that is up for discussion Wednesday in a joint House-Senate committee tasked with implementing Oregon's legal marijuana program.

Proponents of a sales tax say it might be a better way to keep retail pot prices competitive with untaxed black-market prices. They say they'd like to collect roughly the same amount in taxes as they would get from the original method.

Measure 91, the initiative legalizing the drug, calls for a tax on growers of $35 per ounce for flowers, $10 per ounce for leaves and $5 per immature plant. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which is responsible for regulating recreational marijuana, estimates it will raise $18.4 million in...

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