Apr 9, 2026 | Oregon News
Before federal agents began a month-long undercover investigation, several Southern Oregon marijuana growers had been victims of sophisticated armed robberies, and one person had been shot. Four home invasions in the fall of 2019 and early 2020 each involved teams of...
Apr 9, 2026 | Oregon News
The three Democrats have all introduced cannabis reform legislation before, but there’s a difference this time: They’ve got real power in the U.S. Senate. Chuck Schumer is majority leader, if by a slender margin, and Oregon’s Ron Wyden is chairman of the Finance...
Apr 9, 2026 | News, Oregon News
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...
Apr 9, 2026 | News, Oregon News
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...
Apr 9, 2026 | News, Oregon News
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...
Apr 9, 2026 | Oregon News
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...
