Summary: House Bill 3274 is Sponsored by Representatives MAURER, TOMEI, THOMPSON, HARKER; Representatives BARKER, BENTZ, BERGER, BRUUN, GARRETT, GILLIAM, GILMAN, GREENLICK, HANNA, JENSON, KOTEK, KRIEGER, OLSON, RICHARDSON, SCHAUFLER, G SMITH, SPRENGER, WEIDNER, Senators BURDICK, KRUSE, METSGER -- Relating to medical Marijuana; appropriating money; providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority.

Relating to medical Marijuana; creating new provisions; amending ORS 475.302, 475.306, 475. ... ... pharmacies for dispensing to medical Marijuana cardholders and designated primary caregivers. Allows pharmacists to dispense Marijuana to medical Marijuana cardholders and ...

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Relating to medical Marijuana; creating new provisions; amending ORS 475.302, 475.306, 475.309, 475.316, 475.319, 475.320, 475.324 and 475.331; repealing ORS 475.304; appropriating money; and providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

SECTION 1. { + Sections 2 and 3 of this 2009 Act are added to and made a part of ORS 475.300 to 475.346. + }

SECTION 2. { + (1) The Department of Human Services shall establish and operate a Marijuana production facility that produces all Marijuana used by registry identification cardholders. The department shall distribute Marijuana produced at the facility to pharmacies for dispensing to registry identification cardholders and designated primary caregivers.

(2) The department shall adopt rules:

(a) Ensuring the security of the facility and plants;

(b) Establishing a procedure for distribution of medical Marijuana to pharmacies;

(c) Ensuring consistent quality of the medical Marijuana produced;

(d) Establishing recordkeeping procedures for tracking medical Marijuana products from the facility to the end user consistent with federal and state guidelines; and

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SECTION 16. { + The Marijuana Production Facility Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Marijuana Production Facility Fund shall be credited to the fund. The fund consists of moneys deposited in the fund under sections 2 and 14 of this 2009 Act. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the Department of Human Services for purposes of establishing and operating the Marijuana production facility required by section 2 of this 2009 Act. + }

SECTION 17. { + (1) Sections 2 and 3 of this 2009 Act, the amendments to ORS 475.302, 475.306, 475.309, 475.316, 475.319, 475.320, 475.324 and 475.331 by sections 4 to 11 of this 2009 Act and the repeal of ORS 475.304 by section 12 of this 2009 Act become operative on January 1, 2011.

(2) The Director of Human Services may take any action before the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section that is necessary to enable the director to exercise, on and after the operative date, all the duties, functions and powers conferred on the director by this 2009 Act.

(3) The State Board of Pharmacy may take any action before the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section that is necessary to enable the board to exercise, on and after the operative date, all the duties, functions and powers conferred on the board by this 2009 Act. + }

SECTION 18. { + Sections 13 to 15 of this 2009 Act apply to Marijuana dispensed on or after January 1, 2011. + }

The text on this Bill can be found in PDF format at: http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb3200.dir/hb3274.intro.pdf

Status:

03/11 (H) First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
03/12 (H) Referred to Business and Labor with subsequent referral to Revenue.
03/18 (H) Public Hearing held.

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Details:  

> Directs Department of Human Services to establish and operate marijuana production facility and distribute marijuana to pharmacies for dispensing to medical marijuana cardholders and designated primary caregivers.

> Allows pharmacists to dispense marijuana to medical marijuana cardholders and designated primary caregivers.

> Disallows private marijuana grow sites.

> Imposes tax of $98 per ounce on marijuana dispensed by pharmacies.

> Establishes Marijuana Production Facility Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys from fund to department for operation of production facility.  

A copy of the Bill may be found online at:

http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb3200.dir/hb3274.intro.pdf

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Reposted with permission from another forum. The replies to this post, and follow up discussions in the thread point out that this is only the "tip of the iceberg".

assumptions:
1. state garden is exclusively an indoor garden (text of the bill doesn't say that)
2. 2oz grown per patient per month, i.e. 24 oz/yr (doesn't say that either)
3. 24,000 patients (makes math simple, but is currently a bit high)
4. all 1k lamps, each lighting 20 sq ft (50 wpf2)
5. 1 lb yield per lamp
6. 1 month veg, 2 month flower period, all monocropped

with those assumptions, the state garden would need to yield 3000 lbs per month. i'll assume there's a harvest every month, so that'll require 3 separate growings areas running 100% of the time, producing 4 crops each year per area. 3,000 1kw lighting systems would be necessary for each growing area. 60,000 sq ft of space would be required for each growing area. assuming 8' ceilings, greenhouse industry recommendations would indicate roughly 320,000 cfm of ventilation required per growing area.

so in total, the growing areas would require 180,000 sq ft (that's 4 acres); we'd need 9,000 lighting systems; a cool million cfm of ventilation fans, which hopefully would create enough air current that we wouldn't need circ fans. ready for a big order, GGS? looks like close to $2 million just for lighting systems & ventilation.

my county just closed down court system on fridays due to budget shortfalls, and this yahoo rep. maurer wants to spend $2 million on lights & fans.

but hey, hey, if they sell all that cannabis for $98/ounce, they'll generate $56 million annually. anybody getting laid off? i bet the state garden will be hiring quite the crew of leaf pluckers & bud trimmers to process enough plant material to produce 100lb of dry weight per day.

-- Mel

Someone brought up an interesting question that might be another reason to shoot down HB3274.

The pharmacists have already said no way would MJ come through pharmacies due their involvment with the feds but what about doctors? Under HB3274 wouldn't the patient need a prescription to get it through a pharmacy? Wouldn't the process of prescriptions return the threat to doctors from the feds?

Dan K.

The basic reason why any MMJ efforts on the state level are futile. Too bad so many years have been wasted by avoiding efforts to legalize at the federal level. Just examine the status when the OMMA was new and compare it with the hodge-podge of crap it has become after the revisionists and LEO lovers have been hacking away at it. Patients have lost their right to an affirmative defense and are now fighting opponents' efforts to invade their privacy to "inspect" their medical supplies, as well as facing the possibility of no longer being able to grow their own medicine after the state proclaims absolute control over the supplies. Will this continue, or will the opponents of a more liberal, sane approach finally see the light?

Face it folks - it ain't treated as medicine as long as LEO is involved and the ridiculous legal restrictions treat patients as semi-criminal types who are seeking to game the system. Try a new approach? I doubt that the so-called "advocates" really want MMJ treated like other controlled substances like liquor and tobacco. Then they would have to find another "cause" and get in the way of any real progress again. Maybe they could all join with SRF and advocate those perverted ideas of "progress."

Bob K.