Editorial: Banning marijuana solves nothing

While local city and county officials continue to debate the particulars of Oregon’s new liberal marijuana laws, methamphetamine, heroin and prescription pain pills continue to ravage our communities.

The Douglas County commissioners and the Roseburg city councilors recently spent considerable time discussing whether to go along with the state’s new marijuana laws — which may soon allow medical and recreational marijuana to be sold from the same locations — or to ban most everything having to do with marijuana within their respective jurisdictions.

It sounds more and more as if our local elected officials will allow Douglas County voters to once again weigh in on an issue that has already been decided by a majority of Oregon voters.

No matter how Douglas County residents vote, marijuana isn’t going away. Roseburg Councilman John McDonald, whose Ward 3 constituents mostly voted against Oregon’s marijuana initiative, understands that.

“A change is coming,” he...

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