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Sad and interesting that legalizing marijuana, which I favor, will hurt lots of small towns in Oregon and elsewhere, who will export their products to places where it's still illegal and thus costs more.

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my spouse gets benefit from ingesting cannabis in the medium of butter.   Also in a pain-relieving salve.  Inhaling it gets him stoned and makes him paranoid and doesn't do much beyond that to alleviate his medical condition.

The problem is that there's no certainty in the effectiveness of the cannabis used to make the products we use:

effects vary with the type of plant

effects vary with the carefulness of preparation

and there's no way of knowing what's in the product you've been given, herbicides, pesticides etc. 

It would be WONDERFUL if there was a strain of cannabis that was excellent for cancer.  A strain for neurological issues.  And you could buy a consistent product.  But the way things are now, its pot luck [pun intended]. 

This measure doesn't have the scientific evaluation and dosing that I'd really like to see in a dispensary.

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