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Oregon Cannabis Round-Up: Chalice Receivership, New Tax Rules, New Laws

By Vince Sliwoski, Attorney at Harris Bricken It’s been an eventful month in Oregon cannabis. Below are some early summer notes on three things we’ve been doing and watching and writing about. The Chalice receivership I covered this last month as the…

New Rules: Oregon Cannabis Retailers Must Certify Tax Compliance

By Jesse Mondry, Attorney at Harris Bricken, On June 15, 2023, the OLCC approved temporary rules requiring marijuana retailers to obtain a Certificate of Tax Compliance (“Certificate”) from the Oregon Department of Revenue (“DOR”) as a condition for acquiring or renewing a…

Oregon Town’s Marijuana Boom Yields Envy in Idaho

Tax revenue has surged since cannabis stores opened in Ontario, Ore., fueling a push in neighboring Idaho to legalize sales and get in on the action. For John Leeds, the hour-and-a-half commute to and from his job as assistant manager…

Secretary of State Shemia Fagan Is Working as Private Consultant to Troubled Cannabis Couple

Fagan took on the work even as her auditors were examining the OLCC’s handling of the cannabis industry. In a remarkable turn of events, Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan confirms in response to questions from WW that she entered…

Oregon’s Interstate Commerce Bill for Marijuana Seeds and Intoxicating Hemp Products

By Vince Sliwosk, Attorney at Harris Bricken I wanted to drop a line today on an interesting piece of cannabis legislation moving through the Oregon session. The draft bill at issue is omnibus SB 353 (most recent mark-up here). This is…

A new funding source in the illicit cannabis industry: China

Multiple states in the West are seeing an increase in Chinese workers and funding at unlicensed cultivation operations. A few days before Christmas, a joint law enforcement task force found nearly 9,000 pounds of cannabis worth almost $15 million during…

Jim Belushi Serenades NECANN Keynote Audience

March 13, 2023
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Perhaps to calm his own nerves or those of the audience that came to hear his keynote address Saturday afternoon at NECANN in Boston, Jim Belushi of Belushi’s Farm and numerous other vocations pulled out a harmonica before he even…

The Murders of Two Oregon Cannabis Entrepreneurs in Houston Highlight the Industry’s Unnecessary Dangers

According to friends, both Jimmy Martin and Dana Ryssdal were larger-than-life personalities. Until recently, friends say, Dana Ryssdal enjoyed a larger-than-life bachelor’s existence in Portland. He sat in suites at Trail Blazers games. He partied and golfed in Las Vegas.…

Oregon Cannabis: Challenging Testing Requirements Take Effect March 1, 2023

By Vince Sliwoski, Attorney @ Harris Bricken I’ve spoken with a handful of clients recently who are anxious about Oregon’s new cannabis testing requirements. These requirements cover heavy metals and microbiological contaminants, and they take effect on March 1, 2023.…

Oregon Cannabis: State of the State

December 26, 2022
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by Vince Sliwoski, Attorney @ Harris Bricken Welcome to the seventh annual “State of the State” post on Oregon cannabis. For the first year since program launch, regulated cannabis sales fell in the state. We also saw significant legislative and…

Oregon ban on synthetic cannabis products will be nation’s first

Oregon is set to become the first state to ban synthetic cannabinoids sold at grocery stores and other retailers beginning next month. Oregon regulators say they’re restricting sale of the products over concerns about the chemicals used in production. But…

Anatomy of Curaleaf’s marijuana production blunder that sickened more than a dozen in Oregon: Here’s how it happened

A calamitous mix-up at a Portland marijuana bottling plant apparently originated with a single employee who confused two similar buckets with nearly identical identification numbers, according to a state investigative report. The report does not specify, though, whether manufacturer Curaleaf…

No New Cannabis Licenses: Oregon Pulls the Plug

by Vince Sliwoski, Attorney at Harris Bricken The Oregon Senate passed HB 4016 yesterday afternoon, enacting a sweeping moratorium on new cannabis licenses in the state. The law will take effect on an “emergency” basis following Governor Brown’s signature, or 30 days…

‘Talk About Clusterf—’: Why Legal Weed Didn’t Kill Oregon’s Black Market

Legalization was supposed to take care of the black market. It hasn’t worked out that way. CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. — The first unlicensed cannabis grow popped up near Gary Longnecker’s remote Southern Oregon home seven years ago. Now there are…

State troopers seize half a million pounds of illegal marijuana in southern Oregon

November 21, 2021
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Troopers with the Oregon State Police seized roughly 500,000 pounds of processed marijuana in the latest large-scale bust in southern Oregon, which has seen a number of high-profile raids on illegal marijuana farms recently. Troopers served a warrant on a…

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