La Pine medical marijuana tax may be illegal
The fate of a medical marijuana tax in La Pine is up in the air, as attorneys representing the Oregon Legislature have determined such taxes are illegal.At the request of Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, the Legislative Counsel’s office, an arm of the Legislature, looked into the issue.A three-page letter issued Nov. 13 by Dexter Johnson and Mark Mayer with the office concluded that a law passed by the Legislature earlier this year prohibits local governments from taxing medical marijuana. That’s also the view taken by Randy Huff, owner of Green Knotz, one of two medical dispensaries operating in La Pine. Huff intends to sue the city over the collection of the tax, and said the suit should be filed sometime before the end of the month.Huff said Friday he wrote to La Pine city councilors and La Pine City Manager Rick Allen earlier this year to argue the tax was...
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