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Oregon Plans to Allow Bigger Pot Grows Than Washington, But a License Won’t Come Cheap
Planning to sell recreational pot products in Portland? Start saving. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission this afternoon finally unveiled the proposed fee schedule it’ll charge businesses looking to bust into the state’s cannabis market once OLCC licenses become available early next year. Taken in tandem with expensive new regulations the City of Portland just passed, […]
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Cannabuzz: The Week in Cannabis
The Day of Expungement Is Upon Us
The Day of Expungement is upon us.
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Dan Saltzman’s “Green Light District” Dreams Have Been Dashed
Nick Patton City Commissioner Dan Saltzman’s designs on a “green tourism of an entirely different sort” in Portland never stood a chance. Saltzman—the Portland City Council member most averse to new pot regulations the city enacted last month—came into yet another hearing on those regulations this afternoon with a quixotic notion: In a city bent […]
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Ask a Pot Lawyer: Alcohol and Cannabis, Together?
Dear Pot Lawyer, Why can’t I find THC-infused booze anywhere in this crummy town? That’s a tough one. Despite the fact that you can now buy pot and beer at hundreds of spots around Portland, you cannot buy both in the same place and you definitely cannot buy them in the same bottle. Marijuana remains […]
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Cannabuzz: Pot News from Around the Country
Ryan Alexander-Tanner Got your legal cannabis now? Good. Roll one up or fire up the vaporizer as we look at what’s going on outside our state. • South Dakota is opening a canna resort—and while I have been vaping, that’s not a typo. That liberal bastion of progressive activism, South Dakota, has plans to open […]
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Fashion/Retail/Design News: Leather and Cork “Doobie Tube” Edition
• The mini-version of Design Week Portland (look for the big’un to return in the spring) kicks off tomorrow, and details are shaping up for some of the events open houses, lectures, and other events. Take for instance the open house being planned by SET on Tuesday (4-7 pm), where the mayor will give a speech, […]
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Oregon Hemp Convention This Weekend: Last of the Big Weed Conventions… for Now
If you’re like me—and Jah help you if that’s the case—you may have what people who play doctors on TV call “Cannabis Event Fatigue.” This condition develops when you’ve spent nearly every weekend this summer inside a chain-hotel ballroom, attending conferences, seminars, expos and gatherings, all revolving around weed. Some were atrociously overpriced for the […]
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Cannabuzz: The Week in Cannabis
Pot News from Around the Country
Oregon’s got legal weed. So what’s going on in the rest of the country?
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Recreational Weed in Comic Form with Carolyn Main!
It’s a difficult time to celebrate anything much as we try to get a grip on what happened in Roseburg yesterday, but recreational marijuana sales in Oregon are nonetheless a fun new part of our lives now. (Even if you don’t like weed, you’ll probably enjoy the presumed enhancements to quality of life in Oregon […]
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Recreational Pot and You
An Illustrated Guide to Life with Legal Cannabis
An illustrated guide to life with legal cannabis.
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Buying Pot Is Legal in Portland. The Mercury Investigates.
Portland, I have seen your future and it is mildly impressed. As you’ll know by now, Oregon opened up recreational marijuana sales for the first time in its history at midnight, and a handful of retailers who weren’t cowed by nonexistent regulations went for it—splaying their doors promptly at 12:01, offering muffins, donuts, and ham […]