Date: 05/20/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon lawmakers will consider creating a sales tax for marijuana instead of the taxation method approved by voters, which would apply to growers. Proponents of a sales tax say it might be a better way to keep retail pot prices competitive with untaxed black-market prices. They say they’d like to collect roughly the same amount in taxes as they’d get from a harvest tax.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A bill allowing women to access birth control without a doctor’s prescription is once again moving through the Legislature after stalling in committee. The House Rules Committee is scheduled to take up the proposal today. If the bill passes, Oregon could become the second state, after California, that’s approved legislation allowing women to get birth control without a prescription.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon is now the third state in the country to ban so-called “gay conversion therapy” after Gov. Kate Brown signed legislation outlawing the practice. The measure makes it illegal for social workers or licensed mental health professional to practice therapy treatments purporting to change the sexual orientation of children younger than 18. The practice has been widely panned by critics who say it can lead to depression and anxiety in youths.
ROGUE RIVER, Ore. (AP) – The driver of a school bus carrying no children has been killed in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer truck from a nearby plywood mill in the southern Oregon town of Rogue River. The Grants Pass Daily Courier reports that police identified the school bus driver killed as 39-year-old Teralyn Morgan of Wimer.
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