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Think twice before you inhale: Marijuana is only legal in about half of Oregon

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 07/03/2015 - 08:45

Oregonians who plan to smoke, cultivate or carry cannabis under the state's new recreational marijuana law should make sure they do it in the roughly 47 percent of Oregon where it's strictly legal.

Fifty-three percent of the state is managed by such government entities as the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service, where federal laws list marijuana in the same category as heroin, LSD and ecstasy.

Possession of small amounts of marijuana – anywhere in America – remains a federal misdemeanor that carries fines and the possibility of jail time. But federal authorities aren't exactly setting up roadblocks to catch people with that baggie of weed.

The feds are resolute in punishing those who carry marijuana out of Oregon, set up an industrial grow in a national forest, cultivate the drug to prop up a criminal gang, sell it while armed, peddle it to...

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