Unless you've been hiding away in your mama's basement with no access to the innermets for the past two-three years, chances are you've heard about this lil ol' thing called legal cannabis in Oregon. The industry, legal since 2015 in Oregon, brought in a few pennies in 2017... $70 million in tax dollars, according to the Oregon Department of Revenue.
Today, the body regulating that new(ish) industry, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, released a series of videos, with Oregon cannabis industry peeps weighing in on why they decided to "go legal" and what it means to the industry.
Nicole Vulcan has been editor of the Source since 2016. You can mostly find her raising chickens, walking dogs, riding all the bikes and attempting to turn a high desert scrap of land into a permaculture oasis.