Are all of the necessary regulations specified in Measure 74?
No, and for good reason. Measure 74 relies on a public, accountable rulemaking process to design some important details. The Oregon Division of Health Services will need to work with stakeholders including doctors, patients’ groups, law enforcement and community leaders to establish some details of how the new, regulated supply system will operate. The drafters of Measure 74 saw this public process as superior to setting all of the rules in stone in the text of the ballot measure. What’s more, rules and regulations that do not work optimally can be changed in a later rulemaking process. The Oregon Division of Health Services has shown over 12 years of implementing Oregon’s first medical marijuana law that the agency can be trusted to carry out this mission faithfully. It’s the right agency to manage the expansion of that law to encompass the regulated supply of medical marijuana now.
