Oregon cannabis sales have totaled nearly $6 billion since the fall of 2016, according to data from the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum… joined a coalition of 22 Attorneys General in urging congressional leaders to advance the SAFER Banking Act of 2023, which passed out of the Senate Banking Committee… and…
The OLCC announced several changes to the tax compliance rule this weekend at the Cannabis & Psychedelic Section of the Oregon Bar Association’s annual conference… On June 15, 2023, the OLCC approved temporary rules requiring marijuana retailers to obtain a Certificate of Tax Compliance (“Certificate”) from the Oregon Department of Revenue (“DOR”) as a condition…
“In 2022, we were $170 million in tax dollars to Oregon, and we’re tracking the same for this year,” Hudson said of the cannabis industry’s impact on the Oregon economy. “And those funds go to education, they go to law enforcement and they go to health and rehabilitation.” …the lion’s share of cannabis tax dollars…
“Should we be threatening people with arrest and incarceration for using mushrooms? Of course we should not,” says Scott Weiner [who introduced the bill] “If you want drugs to be unsafe, the most effective thing you can do is criminalize them and push everyone within the shadows where they’re where they’re less likely to ask…
The bill, which passed the California Assembly and Senate was introduced by California state Senator Scott Wiener and amended in various committees, would have decriminalized natural psychedelics, such as psilocybin mushrooms and ayahuasca tea, allowing adults of age 21 or older to grow, possess and use them without fear of prosecution. Senate Bill 58 also…
In Oregon, voters in 2020 opted to decriminalize small quantities of hard drugs as well as supervised use of psilocybin. The state is the first to offer controlled use of the psychedelic mushroom to the public, and thousands of people are seeking [supervised adult-use access]. In California, cities including Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and…
Decriminalizing drug possession doesn’t lead to more fatal overdoses… a new study by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that recent drug decriminalization laws in Oregon and Washington did not lead to changes in fatal drug overdose rates. Initial data from the first post-Measure 110 year, however, tell a different story. According to…
The report by a coalition of scientists, academics and activists from all over the world (currently co-ordinated by Health Poverty Action) outlines the key ways in which drug policy impedes climate justice… if those in public office have been corrupted or otherwise undermined by corruption, it is much more likely they won’t be securing the…
The Portland, Maine’s, Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee… passed the resolution on a 3–0 vote… amended the bill to cover home cultivation of natural entheogens for personal use and sharing without compensation. Criminal enforcement would not change for selling, dispensing, possessing on school grounds or driving under the influence of the substances.…
Steve Inskeep & Rob Smith: After being… [the first state]… to legalize marijuana… [for home grow…] Voter’s approved [Colorado] Proposition 122. It allows Coloradans to grow and use plants and fungi containing psychedelic substances like psilocybin… “122 gave us the opportunity to use our voice and to share the healing power of mushrooms with others,”…
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