Major Policy Achievements

  • 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.
  • 280E Tax Relief (2016): Won state-level tax deductions for expenses otherwise disallowed federally by 280E.
  • 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.
  • Jump Started Adult Use Sales (2015-2016): 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.