Central Oregon Property Brokers Say Cannabis Businesses Are Too Risky October 12, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights, Retail 0 Comments Two of Central Oregon’s largest commercial real estate firms will not broker leases for landlords or tenants looking to rent property for marijuana-related businesses, their representatives said Friday. “We took a very active role about a year ago to evaluate… Read More→
Oregon’s Proposed Rules Would Cap Serving Sizes of Marijuana Edibles October 9, 2015 AggregatedNews Cultivation, Processing, Retail 0 Comments Oregon would limit serving sizes of marijuana-infused candies, drinks and other foods in the medical and recreational markets under a set of temporary draft rules released this week. Marijuana-infused edibles, which include a dizzying range of foods, sweets and drinks,… Read More→
Oregon’s First Week of Recreational Marijuana Sales Hits $11 Million October 9, 2015 AggregatedNews Oregon, Policy & Legal 0 Comments PORTLAND, Ore. -- After just one week of recreational marijuana sales, Oregon dispensaries have raked in an estimated $11 million. That figure could mean the state's estimate is shockingly low for how much money it'll make when pot taxes kick in this January.… Read More→
Oregon’s Cannabis Businesses Are Raking in Cash – and IRS Will Take Most of It October 8, 2015 AggregatedNews Oregon, Policy & Legal 0 Comments The line along Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard looked like a windfall for Farma. A crowd started gathering outside the Portland medical-marijuana dispensary shortly before 10 am on Oct. 1, the first day of legal recreational pot sales in Oregon. By the end… Read More→
Washington Dispensaries Warily Watching Oregon’s Marijuana Sales October 6, 2015 AggregatedNews Retail 0 Comments Oregon's recreational marijuana industry is open for business, and that may already taking a toll on pot businesses in Washington state. Medical dispensaries in Oregon started were allowed to start selling recreational marijuana Thursday after the state made recreational pot… Read More→
Oregon’s Recreational Rollout Shows States Are Finally Learning From Each Other October 5, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights, Oregon 0 Comments With Oregon legalizing marijuana for recreational use Thursday, there are early indications that states are learning from one another’s experiences. Oregon is the third state to allow the sale of recreational marijuana, following Colorado and Washington, and its rollout is… Read More→
Oregon’s Legal Sales Go Well on Day 1, But Violations Are a Concern October 2, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights, Oregon, Policy & Legal, Uncategorized 0 Comments Oregon opened its recreational market Thursday to festive and orderly crowds eager to make their first legal purchase of pot. Statewide, the Oregon Health Authority gave 245 medical marijuana dispensaries the go-ahead to sell cannabis to anyone 21 and older, though… Read More→
How Oregon’s New Marijuana Law Compares With Neighboring Washington’s October 1, 2015 AggregatedNews Oregon, Policy & Legal, Washington 0 Comments With Voodoo doughnuts in hand, some Portlanders got their first taste of legal, recreational, purchased-in-Oregon weed early Thursday morning. With cheaper taxes, legal home grow and a regulated medical marijuana system, some in the Washington pot industry worry the state… Read More→
Lines Form at Midnight as Recreational Sales Finally Kick Off in Oregon October 1, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights, Oregon 0 Comments With just a half-hour to go before recreational pot sales began in Oregon, the staff of AmeriCanna Rx scrambled to package marijuana while learning new sales and security procedures. The Northeast Portland dispensary's owners just learned three days ago they… Read More→
Not Everyone Is Happy About Recreational Sales Starting in Oregon Oct. 1 September 30, 2015 AggregatedNews Oregon, Policy & Legal 0 Comments When recreational cannabis sales start Thursday in Oregon, consumers will be able to buy the drug at most of the state's 300-plus medical marijuana dispensaries. But some communities — ranging from Portland suburbs to cities in eastern Oregon — are… Read More→
Some 200 Dispensaries Have Signed Up to Sell Pot to All Oregon Adults Oct. 1 September 28, 2015 AggregatedNews Oregon, Policy & Legal, Retail, Uncategorized 0 Comments In less than a week, Oregon’s medical marijuana dispensaries will be allowed to sell weed to all adults. They’re ready. Nearly 200 dispensaries have sent state officials a form declaring their intent to sell recreational marijuana starting Thursday, Oct. 1. That’s… Read More→
Why Is the Portland Newspaper Is Running So Many Stories on Marijuana? September 25, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments Every week, without fail, reader Dick Thomas sends me a detailed four- or five-page memo critiquing our coverage of marijuana in The Oregonian and on OregonLive. And I mean detailed. He breaks it down by the day – even when… Read More→
Taxpayers Paying $60 for Every Pot Plant the DEA Destroys in Oregon September 25, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments The Drug Enforcement Administration spent $960,000 to destroy marijuana plants in that state in 2014 as part of its "Cannabis Eradication Program," according to a recent report by NBC affiliate KGW in Portland, Ore. That year, the DEA succeeded in removing 16,067… Read More→
Oregonians Getting Ready For Full Legalization: Questions Leading Into Oct. 1 September 21, 2015 AggregatedNews Oregon, Policy & Legal 0 Comments In less than two weeks, Oregonians -- and any one else 21 and older -- will be able to walk into a marijuana shop and buy pot, the latest milestone in the state's long history with the drug. Though the… Read More→
Pot, Not Pinot: Oregon Wine Country Looks to Woo Marijuana Tourists, Too September 9, 2015 AggregatedNews Cannabis Tourism 0 Comments With its rough-sawn cedar walls, burled maple counters and muted colors, William Simpson's upscale shop in downtown Dundee could easily be mistaken for a wine tasting room. Thing is, Simpson's not selling Oregon pinot. He's selling pot. The recent opening… Read More→