<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Question: How much, do you think, will be cut from the state of Idaho education budget this year?</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of today's (August 23, 2016) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"></p><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 5px 0px 1.3125rem; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Gotham SSm A', 'Gotham SSm B', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="http://media.spokesman.com/photos/2016/08/22/Oregon-Marijuana_Fair.JPG_MyUtxpU.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); text-decoration: none;"></a></figure><p></p><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 48px; margin: 5px 0px 20px; font-family: 'Chronicle Display A', 'Chronicle Display B', serif; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Oregon collects $25.5M in marijuana taxes</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SALEM – Oregon has processed $25.5 million in tax payments from recreational marijuana from January through the end of July. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The state’s Department of Revenue says medical marijuana dispensaries were required to file their second-quarter returns for recreational marijuana by Aug. 1. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oregonians legalized recreational marijuana in late 2014. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Medical marijuana dispensaries started collecting a 25 percent tax on their recreational marijuana sales in January. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anticipated state revenue from recreational marijuana through June 2017 was recently quadrupled by Oregon’s Legislative Revenue Office. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The expected amount rose from $8.4 million to $35 million. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Recreational marijuana is illegal in 46 states and under federal law.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/News/SR_082316_Oregon_Marijuana_Taxes.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/News/SR_082316_Oregon_Marijuana_Taxes.jpg</a></p></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Crank it up for . . .</div><div><br></div><div><b>"The Wildwood Flower"</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Wildwood_Flower.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Wildwood_Flower.mp3</a><br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div>“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.”</div><div><br></div><div>- Carl Sagan</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>