{"id":36353,"date":"2019-06-24T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/06\/24\/with-senate-approval-oregon-looks-forward-to-interstate-cannabis-commerce\/"},"modified":"2019-06-24T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T20:35:42","slug":"with-senate-approval-oregon-looks-forward-to-interstate-cannabis-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/06\/24\/with-senate-approval-oregon-looks-forward-to-interstate-cannabis-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"With Senate Approval, Oregon Looks Forward to Interstate Cannabis Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Since Oregon legalized recreational cannabis in 2014, the state\u2019s government has been distinctly pot-friendly\u2026 maybe even a little\u00a0too<\/em>\u00a0pot-friendly. But the state, which legalized medical cannabis 1998 and decriminalized small-time possession in 1978, is now attempting to pass more pioneering legislation and write into law the ability to import and export cannabis between states.<\/p>\n

A climate naturally suited for cannabis, a back-history of illicit market cultivation and the warm embrace of the \u201cfree market\u201d by some of its more conservative politicians have proven to be a recipe for excess up in the Beaver State. Oregon literally has more legally grown cannabis than they can sell to consumers, to the tune of\u00a0six or seven years\u2019 worth<\/a>\u00a0of excess product \u2014 especially given the fact that the state also has relatively lax homegrow laws.<\/p>\n

Temporary fixes like\u00a0licensing freezes<\/a>\u00a0were enacted, but prices still plummeted and illicit market participation rose in response.<\/p>\n

Now, Oregon lawmakers have\u00a0passed a bill<\/a>\u00a0that would allow its governor to enter trade agreements with neighboring states that have also legalized recreational cannabis for the purposes of importing or \u2014 much more likely \u2014 exporting the state\u2019s oversupply of \u201cmarijuana items\u201d to other compliant entities.<\/p>\n

A Boon for Cannabusiness<\/h4>\n

According to\u00a0Marijuana Moment<\/a>, the bill would require the implementation of a tracking system and a strict adherence to transporting the cannabis via roads rather than via air travel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, the bill is on Gov. Kate Brown\u2019s desk, where it is anticipated that she will sign it into law.<\/p>\n

Industry members and state legislators alike expressed their approval of the bill as a release value for the building pressure on cannabis industry members within state confines by granting producers access to out-of-state markets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a major statement by the Oregon Legislature, that says we understand the future of this industry and Oregon\u2019s place in it,\u201d Adam J. Smith, the Craft Cannabis Alliance\u2019s executive director, told the\u00a0Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers expressed similar desires to stay ahead of federal cannabis policy and capitalize on their state\u2019s unique position in the marketplace. \u201cThe trend is toward the normalization and the mainstreaming of cannabis across much of our country,\u201d Rep. Rob Nosse told fellow lawmakers prior to voting on the bill, according to the Associated Press. Nosse later compared the cannabis market to Oregon\u2019s craft beer and wine producers, while bill sponsor Senator Floyd Prozanski likened the relationship between Oregon and cannabis to Kentucky and bourbon.<\/p>\n

The main catch is that this bill won\u2019t be effective until the federal government either legalizes cannabis or specifically authorizes interstate cannabis commerce, but Oregon legislators, like everyone else in the industry, are banking on that day coming sooner versus later.<\/p>\n

Until then, Oregon\u2019s elected officials have made other moves to make their pot producers as comfortable as possible, with an eye towards normalization. The state\u2019s treasury department recently announced an\u00a0expansion of its auto-enrollment retirement program<\/a>\u00a0to include workers in the cannabis industry.<\/p>\n

And the state Senate also\u00a0approved an amended bill<\/a>\u00a0that will establish a means through which Oregonians with cannabis convictions can have their records expunged.<\/p>\n

TELL US<\/strong>, do you think growers should be allowed to transport cannabis across state lines?<\/p>\n

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Since Oregon legalized recreational cannabis in 2014, the state\u2019s government has been distinctly pot-friendly\u2026 maybe even a little\u00a0too\u00a0pot-friendly. But the state, which legalized medical cannabis 1998 and decriminalized small-time possession in 1978, is now attempting to pass more pioneering legislation and write into law the ability to import and exportContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,170,687,4552,284,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36353"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36354,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36353\/revisions\/36354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}