Pretty sure that growing weed is legal in Oregon.
Being 100% serious.... my wife and daughter would probably benefit from medicinal weed and have looked into where it is legal and if it would be worth moving. My oldest is working on her PhD in Washington and the youngest is pursuing a degree in teaching. The teaching license that she is getting would allow her to teach in Oregon. I was a stay at home dad and and planning on being a stay at home grandpa. Where ever my daughters end up settling down, chances are, my wife and I will move to where they are.
I have been sober for 23+ years and the internal debate that I have been having is whether I could maintain my sobriety with medicinal weed around. The youngest has Celiac's really, really bad. She came home stoned one night and ate 5 bowls of cereal and slept like a baby. It has been years since she ate like that. I can see the benefit, but.......
That all said. Even though I am sober, I love, love, love to joke about weed. It turns out, my daughter thought that the joking was tacit approval.
Growing weed is only legal in Oregon if you have a medical card...which can be easily be gotten with a note from your doctor and payment of a small fee.
Posession of less than one ounce was decriminalized in 1973, and is a
civil infraction (like jaywalking, or not having a license on your dog) with a max fine of $500 and no jail time. As a practical matter, small amounts of pot are cheap and easy to obtain and there is no real risk of any sort of criminal consequences.
I too am sober and I too like to joke about weed, but I also see its dark side. It is
not the benign, harmless drug many make it out to be. I know many long term, chronic abusers of marijuana who have been profoundly affected with intellectual impairment, apathy, depression, laziness and other issues. Its certainly not as toxic as alcohol or "hard" drugs, but like anything it is harmful when used to excess.
I know people in recovery who have gotten cancer or other painful afflictions who were faced with a choice between medical marijuana or powerful prescription narcotics. In a "pick your poison" scenario like that, I can certainly see where marijuana would be the less harmful option.