Landowners risk consequences from cannabis

Nov 7, 2021 | News, Oregon

Attention Southern Oregon agricultural property owners: Consider yourself on notice. It’s been common knowledge for some time that Jackson and Josephine counties are the scene of illegal marijuana growing. Some of them are massive operations featuring multiple...

Migrant Oregon weed workers face threats amid illegal boom

Nov 4, 2021 | News, Oregon

SALEM, Ore. — Thousands of immigrants working on southern Oregon illegal marijuana farms that authorities say are run by foreign cartels are living in squalid conditions and are sometimes being cheated and threatened by their gangland bosses. The situation has gotten...

CONGRESSMAN BENTZ CALLS FOR JUSTICE DEPARTMENT’S HELP WITH ILLEGAL MARIJUANA GROWS

Nov 3, 2021 | News, Oregon

WASHINGTON, DC — After a brief segue into the issue of illegal marijuana grows in southern Oregon during a US House Judiciary meeting with Atorney General Merrick Garland last month, Congressman Cliff Bentz followed up with a letter to the nation’s top law...

Oregon Water Resources Department Finds Misuse of Commercial Irrigation Among Hemp Farms

Feb 27, 2021 | Oregon

In some of the more rural corners of Oregon’s hemp market, like the state’s southwestern counties, hemp cultivation has boomed over the last few years. So, too, have questions about who is drawing water from where. Last year, the state had licensed 1,678 hemp...

Will Oregon Mandate Closing Services and Title Insurance for Cannabis Transactions?

Feb 24, 2021 | Oregon

A proposal pending in the Oregon Legislative Assembly would limit title insurers’ potential grounds for refusing to insure certain real property transactions involving cannabis. Specifically, HB 2806, presented by Reps. David Brock Smith and Gary Leif, would prohibit...

Oregon cannabis industry jobs grew 4% in 2020

Feb 18, 2021 | Oregon

Cannabis jobs grew 4% in Oregon in 2020, a rough year for employment generally but a landmark year for the industry as it topped $1 billion in sales for the first time. Still, other states moved past Oregon on the cannabis employment leaderboard as legalization...