The City Council of Oakland, California, adopted a standard of six pounds of cannabis and 144 plants as necessary to maintain an adequate supply for patients. This was based on the amount of cannabis currently supplied by the federal government to eight patients in the Investigative New Drug program. Legal distribution is important to protect patients from having to obtain their medicine from the black market. Many of the initiatives that follow the law enforcement model require a patient to register with the state to receive protection of the law. Many civil libertarians and AIDS patients are concerned that the confidentiality of the registry is not guaranteed and that law enforcement would use the registry to target medicinal cannabis users for harrassment.
Constitutional amendments are much harder to change than statutory laws are.
NO, patients can possess only one ounce if possessed off the production site and up to three ounces if possessed at the production site. Allows cultivation of three mature and four immature plants. Marijuana Recriminalization No vote prevents recriminalization of marijuana by overturning the passage of HB 3643, passed by the 1997 Oregon Legislature, which imposed criminal penalties, including jail time, for the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 'Yes' vote permits state-licensed cultivation, sale of marijuana for medical purposes and to adults. In the months ahead, Oregon voters might be asked to sign as many as five initiative petitions involving marijuana, and they already face one referendum on the subject in the Nov. 3 election.