Oregon county seeks $7.3 million to help fight illegal marijuana grows
Officials in Jackson County in southern Oregon plan to ask the state for nearly $7.3 million to fight illegal cannabis cultivation operations.
Oregon Medical Marijuana News
Officials in Jackson County in southern Oregon plan to ask the state for nearly $7.3 million to fight illegal cannabis cultivation operations.
Oregon regulators are reopening the approval process for recreational cannabis business licenses, which was on pause for more than three years as the state worked through what it said was a backlog of applications.
Adult-use cannabis sales in Western states haven’t been able to keep the pace that led to exceptional growth in 2020, with lackluster summer sales showing a decline in growth from the previous year.
Many illegal marijuana grows in one Oregon county are operated by national and international criminal organizations, according to state law enforcement.
As just one example of the ongoing threats cannabis growers experience in our changing climate, wildfires raged through Northern California in 2017.
Oregon regulators fined a recreational marijuana processor $100,000 for allegedly sidestepping packaging and labeling rules.
At least four more states will legalize cannabis in some form in 2022 and industry mergers and acquisitions will “noticeably accelerate,” MJBiz CEO Chris Walsh predicted Wednesday.