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Oregon is Ready to Get the Nation High

Some progress at the state and federal level; locally, however, another denial

Oregon’s weed industry has many enemies. From the Drug Enforcement Agency, to the U.S. Justice Department, to local-government hostiles who perpetuate reefer-madness myths, to an endless parade of complicated regulations and taxes; it’s a scary world out there for pot proprietors. But the biggest enemy may be a result of the sticky icky itself: Oversupply. […]

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Central Oregon’s Bumper Crop May be Hemp

When your grandparents or neighbors in Central Oregon get riled up about a skunk smell in the air, it almost certainly isn’t the wacky tobacky variety. It may simply be hempโ€”also a member of the cannabis family, but a crop that doesn’t contain the mind-altering THC of marijuana. That’s because Deschutes is a boom county […]

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A Secret Committee Revealed

Question: Is there really a newly discovered secret multi-agency federal government committee, currently drafting prohibitionist anti-cannabis policy, to generate reports to be spoon-fed to the rapidly diminishing-mental-capacity Commander in Chief ? Wow…How high would I need to be to believe that? [Takes hash hit off bong.] That’s how high. Late last month, BuzzFeed news broke […]

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Reefer Madness

The DEA is in denial about cannabis

Even though there is a metaphoric mountain of evidence that cannabis can treat several serious medical conditions, the Obama administration’s Drug Enforcement Administration has again declined to loosen restrictions on the drug. Currently, cannabis is treated the same as heroin and LSD under federal law, which states that cannabis has “no currently accepted medical use […]

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Smoke Signals 4/29-5/6

Gone, and Good!

The latest buzz in cannabis news is surrounding the retirement of the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Michele Leonhart. Leonhart was notorious for coming down hard on folks in the marijuana industry, including medical and recreational businesses operating legally within their state. She also publicly disagreed with the President Barack Obama on his position […]

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