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Oregon marijuana sales soared to new heights in 2020, topping $1 billion overall

January 7, 2021
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Oregon
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Oregon recreational-cannabis sales surged in 2020, peaking during a difficult summer of protests and lockdowns. The result was a record year of business for the state’s marijuana purveyors, based on data from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which oversees marijuana sales.…

If You Have Only Protected Your Cannabis Business Using the Minimum Security Required by Law, YOU ARE NOT SECURE

December 21, 2020
Tim Sutton CPP, PCI, PSP, CHPA
Best Practices, Medical Marijuana, Security
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This year has been filled with what has been termed peaceful protests. Unfortunately, the reality is these peaceful protests have left an undetermined amount of damage in their wakes sure to total tens of billions of dollars across the U.S.…

Oregon wildfires destroyed at least seven marijuana businesses: ‘confirmed total loss’

September 23, 2020
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Oregon
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The sudden wildfires that torched more than 1 million acres across Oregon this month completely destroyed at least seven marijuana businesses and damaged at least dozen more, according to preliminary state survey data. Marijuana has rapidly grown into a major…

Oregon’s marijuana businesses face threat from devastating wildfires; 1 in 5 under some evacuation level statewide

September 10, 2020
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Oregon
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Southern Oregon wildfires this week have plowed through small towns, leveled hundreds of homes and businesses and now threatens part of the state’s prized – and lucrative – outdoor cannabis crop. Statewide, an estimated 20 percent of state-licensed marijuana businesses…

How Oregon coronavirus outbreak affects marijuana: Retailers can sell pot curbside for now

Licensed marijuana retailers can sell their pot curbside to promote social distancing and help stem the spread of the coronavirus. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has approved a temporary rule allowing the curbside delivery. The rule permits retailers to take…

Oregon Marijuana Surplus a Cautionary Tale for Other States

Five years after Oregon legalized recreational marijuana, its lawmakers now are trying to rein in production, fearing the state’s big weed surplus will tempt some licensed businesses to sell their products out of state or on the illegal market. Such…

Too much weed? Oregon’s got a marijuana surplus and officials aren’t happy

Five years after Oregon legalized recreational marijuana, its lawmakers now are trying to rein in production, fearing the state’s big weed surplus will tempt some licensed businesses to sell their products out of state or on the illegal market. Such…

Oregon aims to create an export market for marijuana

February 12, 2019
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Oregon
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What a difference a state makes. Last week cannabis industry watchers had their eyes on Idaho, where news broke about the Idaho State Police arresting a truck driver for transporting hemp across the border. That same week the state of…

Marijuana supply far outweighs demand in Oregon’s legal market, new study says

February 4, 2019
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Oregon
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Oregon’s regulated cannabis industry is so overstocked with product that it could meet consumer demand for the next six and a half years, according to the state’s analysis of the market. That was one of the conclusions in the Oregon…

Lawmakers will continue shoring up marijuana regulations

August 8, 2018
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Oregon
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A report funded by the federal government says Oregon produces more than 2 million pounds of marijuana each year, more than six times what it says can reasonably be consumed. SALEM, OR — In the wake of a new law…

Audit Shows Marijuana Regulators Are Lacking In Oversight

February 8, 2018
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Oregon
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The Oregon Liquor Control Commission lacks "robust" monitoring and enforcement controls to track the state's $480 million marijuana industry, making illegal sales difficult to detect, a new audit concludes. The Secretary of State's review raises alarms about how effectively the agency oversees…

Oregon Forced to Recall Recreational Marijuana Due to High Pesticide Levels

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Liquor Control Commission issued its first recall of recreational marijuana after samples of a type of pot were found to contain a level of pesticide residue above the state limit. The Blue Magoo marijuana…

Oregon Begins Marijuana Home Deliveries

February 13, 2017
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Oregon, Retail
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Oregon is rolling out another first in the recreational marijuana industry: Customers may now order pot from licensed retailers and have it delivered to their homes. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission had granted delivery permits to 117…

Top 10 Cannabis Events of 2016

By Simon Cimiluca Radzins 2016 has been an eventful and interesting year for the world; from a new president-elect to Simone Biles. But what about the progress in the cannabis industry? 2016 has been a remarkable year for the industry.…

Oregon Approves 4 Software Firms to Track Retail Marijuana Sales

June 15, 2016
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Compliance and Regulations, Science and Technology
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The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has approved four software companies for tracking retail marijuana sales, a requirement of the state's recreational marijuana licensees. The companies include a startup from one of Portland's best-known and most controversial tech entrepreneurs. Oregon's rules…

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