There is a marijuana boom in Ontario, Oregon, just across the river from the Boise metro area where pot is illegal. It's the latest flashpoint for conservatives who want to annex eastern Oregon.
. These hot button issues have long been unpopular in the sparsely populated lands east of the Cascade Mountains.
One of them is Malheur County, where Ontario is, and where long time local Ron Jacobs sits on the county commission.Commissioner Ron Jacobs, a retired civil servant, in front of the Malheur County commission in the small farming town of Vale, Oregon. "We have farmers moving across the river to get their residency in Idaho to keep from having to pay [higher] inheritance taxes," he says, adding that it's helping some families to keep from selling their farms.
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