This pandemic has taught us at least three things: • Teachers deserve twice what we pay them. • Americans have, at best, a rudimentary understanding of how to properly wash their hands. • Oregonians found the lockdown to be far more bearable with the addition of...
Five years ago, Jim Belushi walked away from Hollywood to start a new life as a farmer—a marijuana farmer. But the endeavor is not just an excuse to having his own personal supply. As Belushi told Newsweek recently, cannabis has helped him along a personal “path...
As weed sales soar, the letters “OLCC” will now stand for the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission, if lawmakers agree. With Oregon retailers on a pace to sell $1 billion worth of recreational cannabis in the 2020-21 fiscal year, Gov. Kate Brown is asking lawmakers...
Another Oregon county prosecutor announced on Thursday that his office will immediately stop pursuing drug possession cases following voters’ approval of a decriminalization initiative last month—even though it doesn’t formally take effect until February. The early...
Tax revenue has not been paid to the county since a moratorium on processing and producing pot facilities. Deschutes County has filed a complaint against several Oregon state departments over marijuana tax revenue the county believes it should be paid, despite its...