Oregon\u2019s status as a national source of black market cannabis wasn\u2019t exactly a secret even before its state-mandated \u201ctrack and trace\u201d system\u00a0revealed a marijuana surplus of\u00a0three\u00a0times\u00a0what the state\u2019s consumers could smoke.<\/p>\n
Where does the excess go? Somewhere else, like out of state, maybe.<\/p>\n
Whether this development was good or bad depended on where you stood. But unless you were a consumer happy with cheap prices and nothing else, it was mostly a problem. The state\u2019s recreational and medical marijuana growers\u2019 success in\u00a0flooding the market<\/a>\u00a0crashed prices for consumers, put producers out of business and drew the attention of law enforcement. Last year, the state\u2019s U.S. attorney even\u00a0pledged to crack down<\/a><\/u>\u00a0on \u201coverproduction.\u201d<\/p>\n That pledge has yet to result in concrete action \u2014 cementing former US Attorney General Jeff Session\u2019s legacy as one of mostly empty threats. But in the meantime, it\u2019s begged a few questions, the same ones growers in\u00a0California<\/a>\u00a0and elsewhere have grappled with for years: When will there be a legal nationwide market for marijuana? When will interstate cannabis commerce become a thing?<\/p>\n What about in 2021? That\u2019s when Oregon cannabis producers would be able to legally export to other states if a proposed bill expected to be considered in the Oregon state house later this year becomes law.\u00a0According to the\u00a0Statesman Journal<\/a><\/u>, state Sen. Floyd Prozanski (D-Eugene) is working with cannabis industry advocates on a bill that would allow state growers to ship cannabis to other states, providing that state had a legal framework in place and the willingness to accept the Oregon-grown weed.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are plenty of markets that would be thrilled to have world-class cannabis,\u201d said Adam Smith, founder and director of the Oregon-based\u00a0Craft Cannabis Alliance<\/a>, in an interview with the paper. \u201cBut prohibition keeps us from sending it into those markets.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s the rub. The import-export game is not the future of cannabis,\u00a0it is the present<\/a>, as Canada\u2019s licensed companies are proving with their worldwide distribution. But it will remain the distant future in the United States so long as federal prohibition is in effect. If the Justice Department couldn\u2019t quite bring itself to kill off the recreational marijuana markets in places like Colorado and Washington, surely it might balk at allowing truckloads of cannabis to cross state lines?<\/p>\n 2021 is two years into the future \u2014 a future when a Congress controlled by Democrats, bereft of the key committee chairs that made a career of blocking marijuana reform, just might pass meaningful marijuana reform. A state like Oregon declaring its intent to ship weed to states where it is needed and not a burden might put just enough pressure on Congress to do something.<\/p>\n There is also an air of a preemptive strike. Oregon, Prozanski told the newspaper, is known throughout the country as a producer of things like fine pinot noir wines and palate-busting IPAs sold worldwide. Should Congress decide to change federal marijuana policy, there is a desire to be ready to add cannabis to that list as soon as possible.<\/p>\n There are numerous hurdles, both legal and logistical, as well as whatever wrinkles the market would present. But the openness with which state lawmakers are entertaining the idea reveals what should be obvious and undeniable: A\u00a0nationwide marijuana market<\/a>\u00a0is coming to the US, possibly sooner rather than later. Whether it will come soon enough to rescue producers suffering from low prices is another matter entirely.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/b>, do you think the federal government will allow Oregon to export cannabis nationwide?<\/p>\n The post Could Oregon Be the First to (Legally) Export Marijuana to Other States?<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Oregon\u2019s status as a national source of black market cannabis wasn\u2019t exactly a secret even before its state-mandated \u201ctrack and trace\u201d system\u00a0revealed a marijuana surplus of\u00a0three\u00a0times\u00a0what the state\u2019s consumers could smoke. Where does the excess go? Somewhere else, like out of state, maybe. Whether this development was good or badContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[148,50,6986,6987,90,6170,139,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31909,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31908\/revisions\/31909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Oregon Trailblazing<\/h4>\n
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