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[macbill]

Court backs ban on outdoor marijuana cultivation in Grants Pass

The Oregon Court of Appeals has affirmed a Grants Pass ordinance that requires marijuana plants grown at home for personal use to be grown indoors. The City Council approved the ban on outdoor cultivation shortly after recreational marijuana became legal. The council members were concerned about offensive odors.

 

[Adobewan]

Court backs ban on outdoor marijuana cultivation in Grants Pass

The Oregon Court of Appeals has affirmed a Grants Pass ordinance that requires marijuana plants grown at home for personal use to be grown indoors. The City Council approved the ban on outdoor cultivation shortly after recreational marijuana became legal. The council members were concerned about offensive odors.

@macbill Funny how a number of the news posts you share(thanks for them all!) could be read by your latest avatar(I love that old guy!).
He and many of these news stories share a real "Get off my lawn!" vibe.
1000 apologies ahead of time if that's you in the pic.

 

[cheeseholidays]

It’s the typical Oregon split. The vast majority of the population lives in the valley, and a rural conservative minority believes that the valley “controls too much”.

Josephine County is the latest trying “spoil” what the electorate by and large wants. This is the same county that we have someone suing a sporting goods store for implementing a minimum age of 21 to buy a rifle.

This is also the same county where a woman was sexually assaulted after calling 911 and being told that, “you guys don’t have any law enforcement out there”.

It seems to me they could use some of the tax revenue from cannabis sales.

 

[Mulchmaker]

Rural Oregonians are perpetually butthurt about the Portland metro area "telling folks how to live", a privilege they jealously guard for themselves.

 

[macbill]

List of pot grow sites causing friction

A state agency has refused to provide a county sheriff and prosecutor in Oregon with a list of medical marijuana grow sites, marking the latest friction over marijuana between local and state officials.

On March 13, Oregon Health Authority official Carole Yann told Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel and Sheriff Shane Nelson that the law doesn’t permit the agency to provide the list.

 

[macbill]

Marijuana growers diversify with hemp amid CBD boom

A glut of legal marijuana has driven Oregon pot prices to rock-bottom levels, prompting some nervous growers to start pivoting to another type of cannabis to make ends meet — one that doesn’t come with a high.

Applications for state licenses to grow hemp — marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin — have increased more than twentyfold since 2015, and Oregon now ranks No. 2 behind Colorado among the 19 states with active hemp cultivation. The rapidly evolving market comes amid skyrocketing demand for a hemp-derived extract called cannabidiol, or CBD, seen by many as a health aid.

 

[macbill]

What we've learned from three years of legal marijuana

For the United States, marijuana use among adults barely budged from 2014-15 to 2015-16. But in Oregon, which already has much more widespread use than the national average, the survey detected a statistically significant increase after legalization.

 

[macbill]

How much cannabis should an Oregon medical marijuana patient be allowed to buy?
In August, a state analyst spotted dozens of suspicious transactions when he crunched cannabis sales data: a small number of medical marijuana cardholders bought unusually large quantities of marijuana flowers on consecutive days.

Oregon regulators suspected medical marijuana patients and caregivers were exploiting the system by buying cannabis to sell on the illicit market.

 

[macbill]

Rippers snatch Croptober harvests in Portland area
As more people legally grow marijuana, thieves are coming along to steal the fruits of their labor.

Croptober, as it's called, is the harvest season for pot. Thieves, known as rippers, are now targeting ready-to-harvest weed in different neighborhoods, like Brentwood-Darlington.

 

[Marlon Rando]

Jamaican-born musician sentenced to 8 years in prison for marijuana he legally obtained

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/st...enced-8-years-no-parole-marijuana/1650759002/

 

[macbill]

A Pop-Up Shop at a Portland Florist Is Selling Cannabis Bouquets

 

[macbill]

Oregon marijuana prices dive — and sales soar

Rampant overproduction in Oregon’s market for legal, recreational marijuana has produced a 50 percent drop in prices, according to state economists. That widely documented collapse has been tough on farmers and retailers — but a boon for consumers.

A new state analysis finds the price collapse sparked a big uptick in marijuana purchases and a corresponding increase in associated tax revenue, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.

 

[macbill]

Oregon Attorney General Approves Psilocybin Ballot Measure Language

Oregon officials have certified the ballot title for a proposal to let licensed medical professionals administer psilocybin, the main active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, for therapeutic purposes. If approved by voters, the state would be the first in the U.S. to allow legal use of the substance, marking a major milestone in the drug policy reform movement.

The title certification is the final step before the campaign is able to start collecting signatures to qualify the measure for the November 2020 ballot.

 

[macbill]

Oregon marijuana regulators fail to meet even basic standards, state audit finds

Oregon’s marijuana program has failed to keep up with mandatory inspections, its weak testing system threatens to expose consumers to contaminants and regulators haven’t done enough to address black market diversion, according to an unsparing new audit the Secretary of State released Wednesday.

 

[howie105]

The council members were concerned about offensive odors.

If thy nose offends thee pick it out. No that's not it.

 

[macbill]

Oregon Has Too Much Weed, and It’s a Serious Problem
Oregon produces more cannabis than it consumes, causing endless consternation from regulatory and law enforcement agencies. This oversupply has resulted in threats from the state’s attorney general that authorities needed to step up their efforts to deal with it. It’s also sent weed prices plunging 50 percent last year, and predictions are that wholesale prices will drop again this year.

 

[macbill]

OREGON LAWMAKERS MOVE TO PREPARE FOR INTERSTATE POT COMMERCE
It may seem like a pipe dream now, but Oregon lawmakers are anticipating the federal government legalizing, or at least tolerating, the interstate transfer of marijuana.

The Senate Judiciary Committee moved forward a bill this week empowering the governor to enter into agreements with other states for such transactions. The bill, which was completely rewritten in an amendment, goes to the Senate floor for a vote.