The Oregon Weed Thread -Grows, News and Laws and Whatever

[Sluicebox]

Just got off phone with OMMP and yes you can grow at multiple locations, provided you do not exceed limits. The $200 grow site fee is per patient due when making a change or registering new grow site. 10 day grace period maximum.

I strongly feel that there is a concentrated effort to run off the Medical Growers and force all into the Recreational side.

Do the math

4 patients $200 each $800 24 plant count.

Tier one Micro Grower $1000 8x the grow space used for 24 plants.

 

[Aota1]

Shops gonna be busy today I think. We just got some Dawgy Treats and Your Sister's Cookies in. Dt is chem4 x cookies and ysc is chemsis x cookies. We've had the Dawgy before but Sister's Cookies is new. I really enjoy the Chem Cookies crosses.

 

[Robrites]

The Task Force on Cannabis Environmental Best Practices will meet on Monday, July 11, 2016, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, at the Oregon State Capitol, 900 Court St NE, Salem, OR 97301, Hearing Room A.

Meeting Agenda


For more information please call 503-872-5000, or email [email protected].

 

[Robrites]

OLCC Launches Online Marijuana Worker Permit Application System

OLCC Launches Online Marijuana Worker Permit Application System

Permit Required for Anyone Working in the Recreational Marijuana Industry

Course Materials Provided in English and Spanish

July 7, 2016

Portland, Oregon – The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has launched a Marijuana Worker Permit application system for workers in Oregon’s recreational marijuana industry. OLCC Recreational Marijuana Licensees and anyone employed in the recreational marijuana industry, including seasonal workers, are required by law to have the permit.

Information about the marijuana permit application, found online at the OLCC’s recreational marijuana website, provides application requirements, education materials, and a link to an online marijuana worker permit test.

The OLCC was assisted by public health advocates, other state agencies, and the marijuana industry in creating a Marijuana Education Course. The course is modeled after the OLCC’s Alcohol Server Permit program. The education material is available in English and Spanish, and can be downloaded from the Marijuana Worker Permit website.

Applicants are required to pass a test showing they understand the laws and rules regarding marijuana, basic safe handling of marijuana items, checking identification, and recognizing the signs of visible intoxication.

Individuals must be at least 21 years old to obtain a Marijuana Worker Permit, which is valid for five years. Permittees may work in any licensed marijuana business in Oregon. Lab and research certificate employees do not need worker permits.

During the next few months the OLCC will process applications and will begin issuing Marijuana Worker Permits after September 1, 2016. In the interim OLCC Recreational Marijuana Licensees are still required to use the Cannabis Tracking System to register their employees.

 

[Robrites]

OMMP June Reporting Deadline Extended to June 30th

OMMP June Reporting Deadline Extended to June 30th

The following bulletin was published by the Oregon Health Authority on July 7th, 2016.

Informational Bulletin 2016-20 July 7, 2016

To: Medical Marijuana Growers, Processors, Dispensaries and Interested Parties

From: Oregon Medical Marijuana Program

Subject: OMMP June Reporting Deadline Extended The Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) will be extending the deadline for the June 2016 reporting requirements. The OMMP understands that everyone is learning the new reporting system and wants to work with registered medical marijuana growers, dispensaries and processors to ensure compliance is met.

The due date to submit June inventory and transfers has been extended from July 10, 2016, to July 30, 2016. This extension applies to reporting inventory and transfers made in June 2016 only. Reporting inventory and transfers for July 2016, will be due August 10, 2016. All reports will be due on the 10th of the month thereafter, for the previous month’s inventory and transfers, as originally required.

As a reminder, a grower must create an account and report if you are:

Growing for a patient other than yourself; or
Growing at a grow site address where more than 12 mature plants are produced; or
Growing at a grow site that is not the patient’s residence.; or

Transferring excess medical marijuana to OHA medical processors or medical dispensaries.

 

[Aota1]

Packaging and labeling workshop on Monday in Eugene. Should be a dry three hours

 

[Robrites]

Portland pot dispensary targeted in Oregon marijuana industry's first fraud investig

Portland pot dispensary targeted in Oregon marijuana industry's first fraud investig

Weed and greed: Fake letter, holistic counselor and convicted scam artist make up first Oregon marijuana fraud inquiry




The letter from a top Oregon regulator delivered good news: Tisha Siler had won approval of her application for a medical marijuana dispensary license.

Siler, a California pot grower, would be a "valuable asset" to Oregon, the letter gushed.

There was more. The notice offered, in essence, to hand over a total of seven dispensary licenses without bureaucratic hassle, giving Siler a competitive advantage in Oregon's expanding cannabis trade.

Problem was the October 2014 letter, right down to its official-looking letterhead, was fake.

The letter plays a key role in a state investigation into Siler, CEO of Cannacea, a dispensary that opened last fall in Northeast Portland. The fraud inquiry is the first of its kind in Oregon's marijuana industry.

Investigators also are examining the role of a company that Siler hired to help attract investors. The firm, Green Rush Consulting, worked with a felon previously convicted in a financial scam.

Cannacea soon had a group of backers who were drawn to the state's new recreational pot trade and the tantalizing prospect of sharing in a booming market expected to generate an estimated $181.2 million this year.

That vision of wealth unraveled. Relationships soured between Siler, a self-described herbalist and holistic counselor, and many of those she hoped would bankroll her operation. The venture spiraled into nasty accusations, multiple court claims against Siler and her dispensary and demands from investors that she return their money, according to court documents and the state's investigative file on the case released to The Oregonian/OregonLive in response to a public records request.

No one disputes that the letter was fake. But no one admits to writing it and state investigators can't pinpoint the author.

A Canadian entrepreneur said he invested $168,000 after one of Siler's associates showed the letter to him. At least three other investors had material that included false claims about the business; it's unclear how many of them made investments based on the bogus information, the state's investigation indicates.
cannacea1.JPGThis is the medical marijuana dispensary Cannacea in Northeast Portland on June 10, 2016. Noelle Crombie/Staff

Siler, 45, who sells marijuana products she billed as treatments for chronic illnesses, has denied wrongdoing.

READ the Rest

 

[HorseMouth]

Scumbags abound.

Peace

 

[Robrites]

Drought markers worsen amid Oregon's 5th dry year

Drought markers worsen amid Oregon's 5th dry year

SALEM — Drought conditions in Oregon are worsening, even though the year's precipitation has been close to average.

The Statesman Journal reports that data released by the U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday shows half of the state in moderate drought and the rest of it abnormally dry.

It is the fifth consecutive year of drought for Oregon and the West. State officials say several streams are approaching record lows and Oregon has had three unusually dry months in a row after a relatively wet winter and early spring.

Oregon's river basins all have below-average stream flows.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center is calling for above-normal temperatures through September.

-- The Associated Press

 

[Robrites]

Cannabis Tracking System Training Offered in Bend

Cannabis Tracking System Training Offered in Bend

Class Will Follow OLCC Packaging and Labeling Workshop on July 14th

July 11, 2016

Portland, Oregon – Metrc™, which provides the Oregon Liquor Control Commission Cannabis Tracking System (CTS), will offer a CTS training session on Thursday, July 14, 2016 in Bend, Oregon.

The five hour training class will be held at the Riverhouse on the Deschutes Convention Center in Bend immediately following the OLCC Marijuana Packaging and Labeling Workshop, in the same location as the workshop.

Register for the CTS class on the Metrc Oregon website.
http://www.oregon.gov/olcc/docs/news/news_releases/2016/nr071116_BendCTSTraining.pdf

 

[Sluicebox]

So good year for outs? Makes sense as I was planning on moving most of my outs inside soon. I had thought that La Nina was going to kick off and bring heavy rains early Sept? You know those years where it starts raining in Sept and doesn't stop till June. May just leave them out then, they sure are enjoying themselves.

 

[Bradley_Danks]

SALEM — Drought conditions in Oregon are worsening, even though the year's precipitation has been close to average.

The Statesman Journal reports that data released by the U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday shows half of the state in moderate drought and the rest of it abnormally dry.

It is the fifth consecutive year of drought for Oregon and the West. State officials say several streams are approaching record lows and Oregon has had three unusually dry months in a row after a relatively wet winter and early spring.

Oregon's river basins all have below-average stream flows.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center is calling for above-normal temperatures through September.

-- The Associated Press

So good year for outs? Makes sense as I was planning on moving most of my outs inside soon. I had thought that La Nina was going to kick off and bring heavy rains early Sept? You know those years where it starts raining in Sept and doesn't stop till June. May just leave them out then, they sure are enjoying themselves.

I was thinking its going to be a wet September too since its been so wet. That's a great forecast but I still have my throw up hoop house and bottle of green cure on deck.

Seems like the years after a long summer are super wet!! I hope I'm wrong though


I renewed my Mmj card last month at the THC foundation and they told me the veg limits changed to no limit on height or quantity. So unlimited veg count now..... Anybody else heard this? I wonder what the OHA says? I'm kinda skeptical lol

 

[Robrites]

I have heard that they don't count until they are in bud. So much has changed along the way that I would not guarantee it.

 

[HL45]

My bro said were getting a wet September in the Willamette Valley, it's already been a much shorter season than last year when you consider the rain we have already had

 

[Robrites]

Portland signs off on marijuana festival featuring free samples

Portland signs off on marijuana festival featuring free samples

It's legal to possess, grow and buy marijuana in Oregon, but state clean air laws and local rules have put a damper on public festivals featuring giveaways and consumption.

The Oregon Cannabis Association has found a way to host a summer fair where members of the public -- as long as they're 21 and older -- can take home free samples.

The Summer Fair, featuring dozens of Oregon producers and processors, will be held July 24 at the North Warehouse in Portland.

Amy Margolis, a Portland lawyer with the cannabis association, said the event is designed to showcase Oregon's marijuana industry and give consumers a chance to learn more about products sold in dispensaries.

"It's a way to meet new people who are interested in this market," she said.

The association addressed the city's rules by not charging admission, Margolis said.

Portland officials have made clear they plan to crack down on events that allow consumption or hand out samples at events where people pay to get in. The city views paid admission to a fair where marijuana is handed out as similar to selling pot – something only licensed marijuana businesses can do under the law.

Public cannabis consumption is also prohibited so people who collect free samples at the Summer Fair won't be allowed to smoke or vape on site.

Victor Salinas, the city's marijuana policy coordinator, said Thursday that the city has advised organizers to check photo identification of attendees, as well as hire "enough security to monitor the perimeter to make sure no one is entering other than by the established entrance and exit."

City officials earlier this year said they would ramp up pot-related enforcement efforts with the addition of four compliance officers, whose salaries come out of marijuana licensing fees. Salinas said those officers may visit the fair to ensure compliance with city rules.

Organizers or promoters of the events who violate the rules -- and owners of the property where they are held -- can face fines of as much as $5,000, according to city officials.

 

[delta9nxs]

I was thinking its going to be a wet September too since its been so wet. That's a great forecast but I still have my throw up hoop house and bottle of green cure on deck.

Seems like the years after a long summer are super wet!! I hope I'm wrong though


I renewed my Mmj card last month at the THC foundation and they told me the veg limits changed to no limit on height or quantity. So unlimited veg count now..... Anybody else heard this? I wonder what the OHA says? I'm kinda skeptical lol

yes, for medical grows the definitions have changed. since they made the recreational definition of a "mature" plant "any plant in flower", no matter the size, they changed the medical rules to match.

only the "mature" plants count against your card. that is still 6 per card.

they also removed the old 12" high or wide rule for vegging medical plants and removed all plant count limits on vegetative medical plants.

so now the highest yielding method for medical would be to grow your vegetative plants as large as possible before the induction of flower.

they require monthly reporting for any grow site that exceeds 2 cards or 12 plants.

they require monthly reporting for any grow site that is not at a residential address, even if it is only 12 plants.

an interesting quirk in the rules is that if you are residential medical and have no more than 2 cards (12 plants) you can also have the four per household recreational plants that every house in oregon can have without reporting.

so that means a residence may have 16 plants without reporting.

so unlimited size and count for vegetative plants and 16 monsters, all without reporting.

pretty cool, huh?

 

[Sluicebox]

Seems a bit unfair to allow the 4 rec with 12 or fewer and not an address with 4 cards. Particularly when you are not allowed to share your meds but others can share their rec. Guess I have to dig through the rules again cuz it was my understanding OMMP had nothing to do or say about the 4 rec. I believe the definition was 6 mature medical plants per patient. I do not recall seeing a reference to the 4 rec anywhere in the OMMP rules. My interpretation of that is you can grow your meds and every residence still gets their 4 rec. Entirely different programs. Don't quote me, and dyodd.

 

[delta9nxs]

Seems a bit unfair to allow the 4 rec with 12 or fewer and not an address with 4 cards. Particularly when you are not allowed to share your meds but others can share their rec. Guess I have to dig through the rules again cuz it was my understanding OMMP had nothing to do or say about the 4 rec. I believe the definition was 6 mature medical plants per patient. I do not recall seeing a reference to the 4 rec anywhere in the OMMP rules. My interpretation of that is you can grow your meds and every residence still gets their 4 rec. Entirely different programs. Don't quote me, and dyodd.

i don't believe i said that.

you are correct that the 4 plant rec thing is not in the ommp rules. it is in the rec rules and applies whether you are medical or not.

you can have up to 48 plants at a site under the ommp rules but you must do monthly reporting if you have more than 12 medical plants at a single residential address.

you can have the 4 rec plants no matter the medical plant count. if it is a residential address.

you may not have more than 12 medical plants at a residential address within city limits. but you may have up to 48 medical plants at a commercially zoned site that is in the city limits. and up to 48 plants at any residential address not within city limits.

all of these rules are designed to force anyone who wants to make money growing cannabis to move to recreational and paying taxes.

they are making it harder and harder to stay medical while making it easier and easier to go recreational.

it's working, the days of the large outdoor medical growers not paying taxes are about over here in oregon.

i would not be investing in that direction.

 

[Aota1]

I found out about the fact that we're still going to be able to sell medical grade products at our recreational Dispensary after we go full rec but I still am unsure about tax and whether we'll have to start charging it on med patients when that happens. Anyone know? I sure hope not.

 

[Sluicebox]

I recall that medical at any dispensary will not be taxed. I doubt that will last though. Likely it will get pushed onto the growers. Why not the growers, we're all rich right? Rules seem to change before the ink is dry.

I created my account with OMMP but I'm being told that I do not exist in their system? I sent them an email and they replied that they are unable to answer emails at this time! Anyone else running into that?

I've had some labor intensive jobs in my lifetime but growing is right up there next to pulling green chain at the mill.