Oregon cannabis tax revenue numbers are currently up as of this quarter, with the area seeing an increase of 45 percent for the first quarter of the 2021 fiscal year over the first quarter of 2020. This most recent quarter, which began on July 1, brought in $ 46.9 million…
Voters in Oregon made history on Tuesday with the passage of two landmark initiatives aimed at reversing the tide of the War on Drugs. Although votes remain to be counted, Measure 109, a proposal to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, and Measure 110, which decriminalizes possession of all drugs,…
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#Marijuana regulators in #Oregon are granting #cannabis #business applicants with new guidelines to create a faster process. There will be a raise of the ownership threshold to 20 percent, modifications to background checks, revising pre approval requirements, as well as lessening the amount of information needed in the license application.…
The owner of an Oregon cannabis shop destroyed by the wildfires ravaging the West Coast is vowing to rebuild, despite being ineligible for the aid provided to most businesses. Thorin Thacker, the co-owner of Canyon Cannabis in Gates, Oregon, was told that it took only 15 minutes for the store…
How Oregon Fought the Black Market and Won One of the biggest hurdles within the legal cannabis industry is trying to weed out the black market. Irrespective of most legalization efforts, there is always a sector of black market activities that simply do not go away. We have previously discussed…
Legal Cannabis In Oregon: The Free Trade System Sinking The Ship? When Ian first told me that a pound of top shelf around here went for 600 a pop and pounds of B‘sters for 60, I had a hard time believing my ears. I’m from the east, down…
PORTLAND — Two of the first states to broadly legalize marijuana took different approaches to regulation that left Oregon with a vast oversupply and Colorado with a well-balanced market. But in both states prices for bud have plummeted. A new Oregon report by law enforcement found nearly 70 percent of…
GILLIAN FLACCUS PORTLAND, Ore. — When Oregon lawmakers created the state’s legal marijuana program, they had one goal in mind above all else: to convince illicit pot growers to leave the black market. That meant low barriers for entering the industry that also targeted long-standing medical marijuana growers, whose product…
ASTORIA, Oregon (AP) — Clatsop County voters might have the option in November to institute a tax on retail marijuana sales. The Daily Astorian reports that county commissioners will hold the first reading Wednesday of an ordinance that would impose a 3 percent tax on sales. Staff estimates the tax, applied to…