The 9% of Oregon Retail stores that haven’t paid their sales taxes cannot be viable/profitable stores, so aren’t going to be much of a loss to Cannabis community. It’s difficult to imagine the owners of profitable assets not doing the basic task of staying in the good graces of the regulatory body that issues them the license without which their asset is worthless. La Mota is an interesting counter example in that they have been a large state chain of bad stores from the beginning of recreational cannabis. I can only assume that their strategy has been to use all capital and revenue to grow their retail footprint in the state hoping to sell to an ambitious multi-state operator looking for a quick entry into the Oregon market rather than attend to the most basics: pay your suppliers and pay you sales tax. Alas, MSOs haven’t been much interested in Oregon, due to its relatively small market size and rock bottom competitive prices. Companies that don’t pass the sales tax that they’ve collected to the Oregon Department of Revenue by the end of the month following the month in which they were collected, as already required by the marijuana regulations of the OLCC and the ODR, open themselves up to prosecution by the state. Reply