[Libs-Or] Policies and Pot

Fri Feb 20 13:39:09 PST 2015

I agree Buzzy.

I mean--do you all check everyone's water bottles to make sure there isn't
vodka in there?

I am wondering what everyone is doing to provide patrons with relevant,
useful solid information about cannabis use, medicinal cannabis use and the
cannabis business.

These are all questions librarians will be asked, and we should have
answers that don't revolve around sending people to the DEA web site.

People might want to think about serving human information needs, then
keeping people out of the library and "What if they do this, or what if
they do thats?"  IMO

Many US veterans find PTSD relief from medicinal cannabis.

Will you try to keep them out of your library if they smoked or ingested
cannabis hours before?

How many hours/days must a person be sober before they can enter the
library?

What is the legal limit for being in the library?

How will you be able to tell if someone's red eyes are from an allergy or
from being baked?

It seems like it would be a mistake to travel down the routes of trying to
figure these things out and sticking to "illegal behavior."

You patrons have information needs about cannabis--how will you help them
with those needs?

Respectfully,

Max Macias

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Buzzy Nielsen <buzzy at hoodriverlibrary.org>
wrote:

>  I guess I'm just not seeing the rationale for specifically calling out
> marijuana. Noncommercial exchanges of legal goods happen all the time in
> our buildings. As long as there's no illegal activity happening and it's
> not adversely affecting library operations. It seems like you'd just be
> making more work for yourself having to police it.
>
> Also, you might want to look into whether it's permissible to forbid
> people from posting legal marijuana-related content on your public bulletin
> boards. At least when I looked it up, publicly-accessible library bulletin
> boards fall under the same "limited public forum" case law as public
> meeting rooms.
>
> Cheers!
> Buzzy
>
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> Hood River County Library District
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>
>  On 02/20/2015 01:13 PM, BCLD Library Director wrote:
>
> I recently attended at the SDAO Conference and learned that
>
> ·         while public consumption is prohibited, possession and
> *delivery* (sharing for noncommercial purposes)  of fairly large
> quantities are allowed.
>
>
>
> A number of scenarios of concern occurred to me regarding lawful delivery
> for "noncommercial purposes."  Below is a draft Q&A I've started to craft
> for staff guidance. I will need to run it by legal counsel when ready.
>
>
>
> *Administering Oregon's Marijuana Law | Sean O'Day and Rob Bovett
> <http://ref.sdao.com/conference/2015/oday.pdf>*
>
> Powerpoint slides (pdf) http://ref.sdao.com/conference/2015/oday.pdf
>
> See page 14.
>
> Effective July 1, 2015, a person 21 or older can:
>
> ·         Deliver to another person 21 or older, for noncommercial
> purposes, up to:
>
> o   1 ounce of homegrown marijuana;
>
> o   1 pound of solid homegrown marijuana products; and
>
> o   4 1/2 pounds of liquid homemade marijuana products.
>
>
>
> So...
>
>
>
> *Can people use the library as a space to trade/exchange their homegrown
> products?  *
>
> Probably not. It seems reasonable to interpret any kind of exchange of
> goods as "commercial" activity, so that would be out.
>
>
>
> *Since non-commercial sharing is legal, can someone set a up a little
> giveaway station at a library table?*
>
> Probably not. Section 56 would appear to prohibit such open displays in
> common areas.
>
>
>
> Meas. 91, Section 56.
> <http://www.oregon.gov/olcc/marijuana/Documents/Measure91.pdf> Homegrown
> marijuana in public view prohibited. (1) No person may
>
> produce, process, keep, or store homegrown marijuana or homemade marijuana
> products
>
> if the homegrown marijuana or homemade marijuana products can be readily
> seen by
>
> normal unaided vision from a public place.
>
>
>
> *Can someone use a tutor room for sharing (which would not be readily
> seen) and just post their availability hours or a contact number for
> appointments on the bulletin board?*
>
> I haven't yet found anything to prohibit it, so that scenario may need to
> be addressed by a policy.
>
>
>
> Additional seminar handouts
>
> http://ref.sdao.com/conference/2015/addtlhandouts.pdf
>
>
>
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>
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>
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