“It makes absolutely no sense that legal businesses are being forced to operate entirely in cash, and it’s dangerous — and sometimes even fatal — for employees behind the register,” Washington Sen. Although 18 states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and 37 allow its medical use, it remains illegal under federal law. Dozens […]
“These are being sold right now, without any regulation, without any oversight,” said Democratic Sen. With about two weeks left in the legislative session, Keiser and Republican Mark Schoesler introduced a measure Friday to ban the products both within Washington’s legal cannabis industry and outside it. Washington lawmakers are making a last-ditch attempt to block […]
The complex problem of illegal cannabis in Southern Oregon is the subject of a recent in-depth piece from POLITICO’s federal cannabis policy reporter, Natalie Fertig. If you’d like to comment on any of the topics in this show, or suggest a topic of your own, please get in touch with us on Facebook or Twitter, […]
His goal is to provide evidence-based information that he hopes will empower clinicians to feel more comfortable talking to their patients about cannabis use and answering questions that patients may have. A new website created by an Oregon doctor aims to make it easier for healthcare providers to talk with their patients about the health […]
The complaint references five violations of the air quality permit that allows Threemile to operate methane digesters that the dairy uses to capture methane from liquefied cow manure. The violations stemmed from Threemile overusing a natural gas burner at the digester facility to dry manure so it could be reused as animal bedding. The program […]
Oregon’s Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and Douglas County sheriff’s offices regularly find grows and processing and storage sites with millions of dollars worth of illegal marijuana. Law enforcement agencies in southern Oregon say foreign cartels are behind many of the illegal grows. …Read the full story