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Weed Cash

As marijuana tax receipts roll in, city leaders look to direct dollars toward street maintenance and police

Marijuana tax receipts statewide have been steadily declining since Novemberโ€”but still, recent reports from the Oregon Department of Revenue indicate the state has already brought in $65.4 million in tax dollars from legal marijuana. January 2017 alone brought $5.3 million into state coffers, with retailers selling an estimated $7 million worth of marijuana each week […]

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Ganja Grows Up

The evolution of craft cannabis, one year after pot sales went legit

Nutty notes of chestnut and coffee. Flowery violet and honey. If you thought that was in reference to a wine someone’s drinking, you’d be wrong…kind of. These days, descriptions like that are almost as likely to be thrown around while shopping for marijuana as they would be when buying a fine wine. October 1, 2016 […]

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