[Vision2020] Oregon collects $25.5M in marijuana taxes

[Ron Force]

$35 million amounts to 1% of Oregon's $33 billion budget.

Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>
wrote:

> Question:  How much, do you think, will be cut from the state of Idaho
> education budget this year?
>
> Courtesy of today's (August 23, 2016) Spokesman-Review.
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> <http://media.spokesman.com/photos/2016/08/22/Oregon-Marijuana_Fair.JPG_MyUtxpU.jpg>
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> Oregon collects $25.5M in marijuana taxes
>
> SALEM – Oregon has processed $25.5 million in tax payments from
> recreational marijuana from January through the end of July.
>
> The state’s Department of Revenue says medical marijuana dispensaries were
> required to file their second-quarter returns for recreational marijuana by
> Aug. 1.
>
> Oregonians legalized recreational marijuana in late 2014.
>
> But it can only be sold by medical marijuana dispensaries until the Oregon
> Liquor Control Commission finalizes rules for the new industry. That’s
> expected to happen by next year.
>
> Medical marijuana dispensaries started collecting a 25 percent tax on
> their recreational marijuana sales in January.
>
> Anticipated state revenue from recreational marijuana through June 2017
> was recently quadrupled by Oregon’s Legislative Revenue Office.
>
> The expected amount rose from $8.4 million to $35 million.
>
> Recreational marijuana is illegal in 46 states and under federal law.
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> Greg Seybert, head farmer at marijuana grower Synergy Farms in Carver,
> Ore., inspects a marijuana plant with his girlfriend, Samantha Aune, in
> Salem Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016.
>
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/News/SR_082316_Oregon_Marijuana_Taxes.jpg
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> “The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full
> utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight,
> sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad
> and dangerous world.”
>
> - Carl Sagan
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