Major Policy Achievements
- Passed Industry Reforms SB 558 (2025): Business to Business Modernization which includes:
- Trade shows: At OLCC-registered events, licensees may provide/receive samples; wholesalers may sell or transfer to retailers; licensee-to-licensee wholesale transfers are authorized.
- Producer transfers: Producers may transfer usable marijuana directly to other producers for operational flexibility.
- Producer samples to employees: Producers may provide immature plants and seeds as samples to permitted workers, within personal possession limits.
- Expanded trade-sample minimums (per worker): At least 1 g usable cannabis per harvest lot per strain per month; 1 g concentrates; 1 g extracts; and 1 unit of a packaged cannabinoid product per production batch. Proportional redistribution among licensees is permitted to align with employee counts.
- Passed Advertising and Labeling Clarity HB 3724 (2025): Replaces the vague “attractive to minors” standard with an objective rule: prohibits advertising and packaging likely to cause minors to unlawfully possess or consume cannabis products, and bars misleading claims or the promotion of excessive/illegal use.
- Passed Essential Licensing Reforms (2024): Stopped the OLCC from accepting new license applications until rational license-to-population ratios are met.
- Stopped Aspergillus Testing (2023): Triumphed in litigation against OHA, eliminating unjust Aspergillus compliance testing, and protecting producers from unnecessary burdens.
- Defeated Sales Tax Hikes (2017-2023): Thwarted every legislative attempt to increase cannabis sales taxes up to 7%.
- Spearheaded Pro-Cannabis SB 408 (2021): Engineered and passed landmark legislation to dramatically improve Oregon’s cannabis business environment. It:
- Significantly reformed enforcement, including reducing penalties for violations.
- Removed the requirement for including turn-by-turn routing on manifests for transfers.
- Increased the allowed edible concentration limit to 100mg of THC from 50mg.
- Doubled the possession and sales limits of usable flower from 1 ounce to 2 ounces.
- Allowed farms to receive their cannabis and cannabis products back from processors.
- Permitted farm licenses to transfer products between licenses under common ownership.
- Enabled farms to get cannabis seeds from any source in Oregon.
- Removed the requirement for child-protective packaging for usable flower.
- Championed Social Equity (2022): Helped pass the Equity Investment Act, investing funds in the communities most harmed by unjust cannabis laws and prohibition.
- Paved the Way for Interstate Commerce (2019): Passed the historic bill enabling Oregon to export cannabis as soon as the federal government tolerates interstate transfers.
- Cannabis Conviction Expungement Reforms (2019): Passed legislation that decreased costs and simplified the processes for expunging past cannabis convictions.
- Protected Product Diversity (2019-2020): Blocked unwarranted efforts to ban cannabis vape products, ensuring consumer choice and scientific integrity.
- Enhanced Banking Access (2016): Led efforts to exempt financial institutions serving legal cannabis businesses from penalties, improving access to financial services.
- 280E Tax Relief (2016): Won state-level tax deductions for expenses otherwise disallowed federally by 280E.
- Jump Started Adult Use Sales (2016): Successfully advocated to allow dispensaries to launch early sales of flower to adult-use customers, and subsequently expanded early sales to include edibles, extracts, and topicals.
- Lowered Patient Taxes (2016): Ensured medical patients were exempt from sales taxes on medicinal purchases.
- Lowered Taxes & Fees (2015): Successfully fought for lower sales taxes for consumers, lower fees for OLCC applicants, and removed the unworkable tonnage taxes at the wholesale level.
- Relentless Advocacy for Pro-Cannabis Reforms (Ongoing): Championed comprehensive reforms with the OLCC and OHA, leading efforts to dismantle restrictive regulations, facilitating changes such as the adoption of average wet weight for harvests, extended harvest windows, increased testing batch sizes, rescheduling of violations, and the creation of the VOC (Fix-it Ticket) program.
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