Ganja, Maryjane, Pot, if you are of a particular age, you no doubt recall, with some shah grin, perhaps, the movies of Cheech and Chong.  Tommy’s “Yeah, man,” spoke more than a simple affirmative.  I was in high school during the Nancy Reagan “Just Say NO!” campaigns, and Cheech and Chong were as much a statement against the establishment as it was an identity for a subculture.

Depending on who you listen to, we’ve come vast distances from that mindset in culture and science and tolerance, or, if you are Jeff Sessions, we’ve not moved an inch.

To some portion of the citizenry, I think cannabis, pot, man, is still a polarizing issue.  I posit that is now just a position of being willfully uninformed.  A tragedy of the times seems to be a tolerance for cannabis is tacit sanctioning of drugs and you just want people to die.

No sane person wants people to die.  Interestingly, what I learned from Josh Wilcoxson is that cannabis may well hold solutions to problems we currently have which will prevent people’s deaths, or, in the extreme cases, help manage their pain.  How does that sane person who really doesn’t wish people dead find it okay to withhold treatment to ease pain?

In my own progress through this information, I’ve concluded, for myself, that the benefits are very worth having that opposing legalization might mean people really might die in pain.

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I’ve seen on job boards in Oregon cannabis jobs for cutters which require marijuana handling permits. What is the cost of that permit? What is entailed to obtain a permit and why does anyone need a permit in the first place to cut a plant?

$100. One must pass an exam on all of the regulations as well as a background check. The same permit covers all OLCC cannabis workers, so it’s much broader than a single aspect of horticulture. I’m thankful for the opportunity to live relatively freely in Oregon. Some of the fears are legitimate. This permit is a relatively small imposition in the grand scheme. And it’s good for five years. 

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