For the first time in the history of the $26 billion legal pot market, employment declined last year, according to a new study… but analysts have high hopes for 2023. This year, cannabis sales are expected to grow by almost 12%, according to Whitney Economics, a cannabis-focused data firm. By 2024, Whitney forecasts 20% nationwide…
…proposed legislation would effectively extend a moratorium on new cannabis business licenses by tying future licenses to Oregon’s population. Oregon’s legal marijuana industry has faced slumping wholesale prices before, with the median wholesale price of a pound of cannabis falling to $649 in April 2019, according to OLCC data… The OLCC report estimated demand was…
To some observers, the central question is why the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) – the cannabis regulatory agency with a $200 million annual budget and 380 employees, including sworn enforcement officers – would keep granting a chain like La Mota more retail licenses despite its owners allegedly owing government agencies and vendors millions.…
Protecting the right to grow… psychedelic… at home is a health and economic justice issue… convenience and commerce at the expense of public health is nothing new… I saw growing my own as a way to end my reliance on this prohibition-driven headache… has made me less susceptible to the commercialization… it grounds me and…
H 3589 – Concerning the legalization of certain natural plants and fungi would legalize the possession, cultivation, and personal use of plants and fungi that contain psilocybin, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), psilocin, ibogaine and mescaline for people 21 or older. It would explicitly prohibit the sale or transfer of the substances for financial gain and would limit…
A psilocybin research bill cleared a Washington State House committee… passing on a bipartisan 23-8 vote after lawmakers rejected a Republican-led amendment to restore the measure’s original provisions to broadly legalize facilitated use of the drug. In [prior] Senate committees… Democrats subsequently gutted the bill, removing legalization provisions and instead creating a task force and advisory group…
The findings are an affirmation of the knowledge and use of plants as drugs among prehistoric Europeans, says ethnobotanist Giorgio Samorini, an expert on psychoactive substances… in a study published… in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers confirm that chemical signatures in the secreted samples of Es Càrritx hair provide the first direct evidence for hallucinogenic drug use in…
“So whenever I talk about psychedelics, I always include cannabis. My husband likes to call it the people’s psychedelic. It’s much more available. You can grow it yourself, although I would make a case that you can also grow mushrooms yourself, which maybe is — would also be the people’s psychedelic,” said Julie Holland, M.D.…
[Company claims products]… intended to deliver compounds across the blood-brain-barrier while bypassing the GI tract and liver, eliminating hallucinogenic effects… ability to precisely manufacture compounds different size, different shape, different delivery mechanisms… and immense advantage compared to any competitor in the field… “I enjoyed visiting Psycheceutical’s lab and meeting some of the team behind the…
Dave Miller [of Oregon Public Broadcast (OPB)]: “Do you feel that it is a professional necessity or benefit for you to do a supervised session yourself to better understand the world you are a part of regulating?“ Angela Allbee: “I think it’s important to remember that I work for the Oregon Health Authority, a State…
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