Pot bans bring Prohibition to mind

The offices of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission must be busy these days: Not only are employees hammering out the rules under which recreational marijuana will be sold, they’re also keeping track of those local governments that are working to ban the pot sales.

That list gets longer by the week. Currently, it includes mid-valley communities such as Sweet Home and Brownsville. It also includes seven of Oregon’s 36 counties. More governments will join the list, possibly including Albany, where the City Council last week made some noise about maybe pursuing a permanent ban on recreational sales.

The topic has been in the news lately because cities and counties have been dealing with a smaller, but related, question: Whether to ban the early sales of recreational pot by licensed medical marijuana dispensaries. In the absence of some kind of governmental action, those dispensaries have the green light to sell recreational...

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