Agreed. I am sure the volume will be problematic for them too.
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OregonBorn
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Anyone know where I can find some old fashioned pure CBD oil in PDX? So far all of what they have is really only hemp oil, or hemp seed oil, and it is called CBD, but most do not have any actual CBD in it. Its all CBD gummies and tinctures, or CBD and THC oil blends. Even online it all seems to just be hemp oil.
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Robrites
OLCC Executive Director Issues Cannabis Industry Winter Holiday Checklist
OLCC Executive Director Issues Cannabis Industry Winter Holiday Checklist
30 Day Video Backup Reminder:
Avoid Marijuana Worker Permit violation Reminder:
After December 15, 2017 all workers are required to have an issued marijuana Worker permits or licenses will be subject to violations of the rules. Refer to Compliance Education Bulletin CE2017-11. The exception allowing OLCC applicants for worker permits to work on a license facility expires December 15, 2017.
OLCC Executive Director Issues Cannabis Industry Winter Holiday Checklist
November 29, 2017
Today Oregon Liquor Control Commission Executive Director Steve Marks issued the following communication to OLCC Recreational Marijuana licensees:
COMPLIANCE NOTICE
A Message from Steve Marks, Executive Director, OLCC
To our OLCC Licensees,
Oregon’s legal recreational marijuana system recently passed a one year milestone. It was October 1, 2016 when the first OLCC marijuana license retailers opened for business. A year later we have more than 500 licensed retailers among the 1600 licensed marijuana businesses operating in Oregon. This robust consumer marketplace is a significant accomplishment of the past year. Looking forward we know there is still more work to do. Our team at the OLCC is working hard to get through the backlog of applications and to finish marijuana rules that reflect the work of the past legislative session. The legislature recently authorized us to add more staff to help with the workload and we’re in the hiring process right now.
Now the expectations we have for ourselves and the industry reflect the year of experience we collectively have under our belts. During the fall 2016 outdoor harvest season producers were challenged in learning how to account for product in the Cannabis Tracking System (CTS). The CTS is a vital point of accountability in our regulated market. This year we expect our licensees to be proficient in understanding the OLCC rules, obligations under the rules, and operational requirements of CTS.
Below you'll find a list of violations we are seeing on a regular basis. It's important for our licensees to identify if they're at risk for any of these compliance issues.
Outdoor Producers & Metrc Compliance
For outdoor producers we want to remind you that as you get near the end of the 45 day harvest packaging window that you repackage your marijuana flower and record the weight in CTS so we won’t have to take compliance action. We’ll be analyzing CTS data to capture those harvests that aren’t repackaged and recorded within 45 days, and licensees can expect us to be issuing violations.
Video Security Compliance
Our compliance team will soon begin spot compliance checks on our licensees. Checking that our licensees are complying with security requirements will be a key focus, especially ensuring that there’s backup video from video surveillance systems. Failure to produce backup video is a Category I violation under which a licensee could conceivably lose their license and investment by not producing the backup video for OLCC; this is regardless of whether or not any other violation have been proven. Rather than finding out how your system works when an inspector shows up, you should establish best practices and have procedures in place to ensure your cameras are providing coverage where they’re supposed to, and that the video system is working properly.
Retailers and Minors on Premises Compliance
With the holiday season upon us retailers will be preparing for shoppers looking for gifts. Another preparation step is to re-double your efforts to make sure no one under 21 (or under 18 with a medical card) is entering your licensed retail licensed premises. Failure to identify the age of a minor is a serious violation. In December the OLCC will begin Minor Decoy Operations at licensed marijuana retailers around the state. Now would be a good time to make sure you have good age verification procedures in place. Education on minor decoy detection is available from the OLCC, including ID checking classes. Also, please remember that a licensee’s own minor children are not permitted to be on the licensed premises for any reason.
Retailers and Daily Purchase Limits
We’ll also be checking to make sure that retailers aren’t selling to individual customers more than the allowable daily limit under OLCC Rules 845-025-2800. You can also download this poster listing the daily limits from the OLCC website.
Marijuana Worker Permit Compliance
In August 2017 the OLCC allowed growers to hire employees who had an application for a worker permit in process with the OLCC. That exception comes to an end on December 15, 2017. After that date all employees must have a worker permit if they are handling marijuana.
- The good news is that we have approved a workforce of 19,000 people who have been issued their worker permits.
- We have also approved permits for about 9000 applicants, but those applicants have not been issued their work permits because they have not paid the permit fee of $100 dollars. If these workers pay for their permits the regulated industry will have an approved workforce of nearly 30,000 people.
- An additional 9000 applicants are under review and have not been issued their permits.
- After December 15, 2017 approved, but not paid applicants and applicants awaiting approval, can no longer work in the licensed premises of an OLCC licensee until they have a Marijuana Worker Permit. Now is the time to ensure your workforce will be compliant to avoid violations after December 15.
We bring these reminders to your attention because they’re important to the integrity of properly operating our regulated marijuana industry. With each passing day OLCC licensees are seeing and hearing about increased OLCC enforcement activity. During recent actions, we immediately suspended two licenses, are now routinely issuing and settling violations, and now have several priority investigations under way and are routinely issuing and settling violations. Compliance is critically important in building this industry so you need to take action to prepare for the increasing likelihood you may be inspected in the field and that your CTS data will be scrutinized.
The recent out-of-state arrest of one of our licensees was certainly a setback for the integrity of the Oregon marketplace all of us have worked to create. Like me, I know that many of you were embarrassed by this incident. There is no place for those that seek to cut corners in the Oregon system and OLCC will do all we can to ensure the integrity of the Oregon marketplace and its competitive fairness for all you who follow the rules. I am confident we can achieve this aim with the help of our licensees.
As this year closes, the OLCC remains committed to your success in our system and working with you and Oregon’s leaders to improve it.
Sincerely,
Steven Marks
Executive Director, OLCC
We’ve put together this check list to help you make sure you’re in good standing this holiday season:
45 Day Harvest Packaging Reminder:
Outdoor producers who’ve completed their 2017 fall harvest need to make sure they’ve segregated their harvest lots of dried flower to ensure compliance with OLCC Division 25 Rules 845-025-2080. Each harvest lot needs to be packaged separately with a CTS (Metrc) User Identification Tag linked to each plant and recorded in CTS within 45 days of harvest.
All OLCC marijuana licensees are required to have off site (away from the licensed premises) back up recordings from their video surveillance system for a minimum of 30 days. You can do this by uploading to the cloud or to a physical location away from the licensed premises. OLCC Division 25 Rules 845-025-1450.
No Minors on the Licensed Premises Reminder:
No one under the age of 21 is allowed on a licensed premises. That means if someone’s under 21(or under 18 if they have a medical card) they can’t be in a licensed retail operation. Period. OLCC Division 25 Rules 845-025-1230.
Daily Purchase Limit Reminder:
There’s a daily limit to the amount of recreational marijuana that a retailer can sell to an individual customer. OLCC Rules 845-025-2800
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OregonBorn
Active member
And a holiday cheer from Jeff Sessions, threatening to crack down on all legal rec weed... Oregon is poised to flip all growers and sellers to medical if it happens. California has flipped everything to rec, so I dunno what they will do.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sessions-suggests-doj-preparing-federal-025413567.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sessions-suggests-doj-preparing-federal-025413567.html
PDX Dopesmoker
Active member
Flipping all the rec growers to medical would be a perfect way to wipe out what little remains of the medical segment.
Remember back in 2015 when all the carpetbaggers were "just in it for the patients"? Those are the people who get favorable treatment over the folks who stayed medical? money talks in oregon, no wonder all these flamers from SoCal wanted to move up here.
With luck my boy Jeff will take down the OLCC on RICO charges and free us from their petty tyrannical bullshit
OregonBorn
Active member
Well, if you read the weed bills passed into law last year in Oregon, they have created options in them to flip all Oregon rec back to medical. Having forced almost all medical growers here to test and use tracking (you had until today, 12/1 to declare), its all one process now.
And of course if you have a medical card they will likely come and take your guns away from you, like they are doing now in Hawaii. Then people in Ninja Turtle outfits can come and rob you blind. Also the Feds will come and take your cash, like they did the medical shops in SoCal.
Maybe California will succeed from the US? Then we can finally start the Civil War that is brewing.
And of course if you have a medical card they will likely come and take your guns away from you, like they are doing now in Hawaii. Then people in Ninja Turtle outfits can come and rob you blind. Also the Feds will come and take your cash, like they did the medical shops in SoCal.
Maybe California will succeed from the US? Then we can finally start the Civil War that is brewing.
Aota1
Member
From the Register Guard today - Eugene
Federal authorities seized 1,200 pounds of marijuana, nearly $26,000 in cash and other evidence while investigating a Cottage Grove cannabis oil lab explosion that burned a federal parolee who could face new charges in connection with the Nov. 16 blast, newly unsealed court documents say.
A search warrant affidavit signed by Drug Enforcement Administration agent Sean Cummings names Eric Leighton Scully as the man who was hospitalized with burns to his face and hands after the explosion at an industrial building in the 100 block of North Lane Street in Cottage Grove.
Scully bought the building in 2014, and last year received city land-use approval to process cannabis oil there.
That permission from Cottage Grove city officials came three months after Scully was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Eugene to 90 days in prison for overseeing a money laundering scheme in which he used a Eugene coffee kiosk as a business front to distribute marijuana to other states.
Scully, 34, completed his prison sentence in March and began a three-year term of supervised release, which involves regular check-ins with a probation officer. While on supervised release, Scully is prohibited from frequenting places where drugs are illegally sold, used, distributed or administered, according to court records.
Under Oregon law, state officials now regulate the production, sale and use of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes.
But pot remains illegal under federal law, and Cummings wrote in his request to search the property where the explosion occurred that authorities are investigating Scully for federal crimes including the manufacture of marijuana, and possession with intent to distribute the drug
The move marks a rare instance in which federal officials have taken action against an Oregon maker of pot products. For the most part, federal officials have turned a blind eye to Oregon’s pot industry.
No new criminal charges had been filed against Scully as of Friday.
Local police called DEA
Efforts by The Register-Guard to reach Scully and his family members on Friday were unsuccessful, and an attorney who represented Scully in the previous federal case did not return phone and email messages.
Court records show that after a judge approved the DEA’s request to search the North Lane Street building following last month’s explosion, agents seized 728 growing marijuana plants; roughly 1,200 pounds of marijuana; 85 pounds of concentrated cannabis; computers and cellphones; video surveillance recordings; a pickup truck and trailer; lab equipment; nearly $26,000 in cash found in a backpack; and documents including pay/owe records, bills and dispensary lists.
The warrant affidavit says DEA agents began their investigation one day after the explosion, when Cottage Grove police officer Josh Dumas contacted them about the incident.
Dumas reached out to federal authorities because of the quantity of the marijuana on the property, the fact that Scully is on supervised federal release, and because the explosion was caused by the production of cannabis oil, which involves the use of a solvent such as butane to extract the main psychoactive compounds of marijuana from the plant.
According to the affidavit, Dumas told DEA agents that he had checked with the Oregon Liquor Control Commission and the Oregon Health Authority — two state agencies that oversee Oregon’s marijuana programs — and learned that the property was not a licensed marijuana growing or processing location.
OHA records indicated that there had been two medical marijuana patients associated with the address, but that their permits had expired.
Cummings noted in the affidavit that the amount of marijuana found on the property exceeds the allowable amount that can be possessed or grown for two patients under Oregon law.
Cottage Grove Public Works and Development Director Faye Stewart stressed Friday that the city had given Scully permission to use the property to process cannabis oil, provided he obtain the appropriate state marijuana permits.
Agent notes 2016 visit
Scully didn’t provide a statement to police or consent to a search of the property before he was taken to a Portland hospital for treatment of his burn injuries, Cummings wrote. Scully indicated he was working with two separate attorneys at the time, although the affidavit doesn’t name those lawyers.
Cummings wrote that last month wasn’t the first time that he had been to the North Lane Street property.
In July 2016 — while Scully was awaiting sentencing in his earlier federal case — Cummings saw a “known drug trafficker” tied to a separate investigation go to the property at a time when a vehicle registered to a relative of Scully’s also was there, the affidavit says.
Cummings asserted that he believes the marijuana and extracts found on the property following the explosion were being prepared for distribution. He does not state where. Also, he wrote that a pound of indoor-grown pot can sell for between $1,000 and $4,000 depending on where it’s sold in the United States.
In the money laundering case that resulted in prison time for Scully, authorities said he and his associates netted more than $1 million through illegal marijuana sales during more than two years, starting in late 2012.
After Scully, his mother and his fiancee were convicted in the case, authorities seized nearly $200,000 in cash along with items including high-end watches, jewelry, firearms, clothing and vehicles.
Authorities said that marijuana grown by Scully prior to his arrest in the earlier case was shipped through the U.S. Postal Service to other states including California, Arizona, Arkansas, South Carolina and Georgia.
When he stood before U.S. District Judge Michael McShane for sentencing in September 2016, Scully apologized to federal authorities who spent time on his case when they had “more pressing” matters to investigate. He also asserted that he’s a medical pot advocate who survived cancer because of marijuana, and that his crimes weren’t “about just making money.”
McShane cut off Scully, pointing out that he didn’t pay taxes on any of the illicit proceeds. The judge appeared somewhat astonished by the long list of expensive items purchased with the drug money, and called Scully’s statement “one of the hollowest apologies I’ve ever heard in federal court.”
McShane called the 90-day prison sentence that he imposed in the case to be “a slap on the wrist.” Scully, however, appeared to disagree. He cursed and complained about the hearing being a “joke” as he left the courtroom
Federal authorities seized 1,200 pounds of marijuana, nearly $26,000 in cash and other evidence while investigating a Cottage Grove cannabis oil lab explosion that burned a federal parolee who could face new charges in connection with the Nov. 16 blast, newly unsealed court documents say.
A search warrant affidavit signed by Drug Enforcement Administration agent Sean Cummings names Eric Leighton Scully as the man who was hospitalized with burns to his face and hands after the explosion at an industrial building in the 100 block of North Lane Street in Cottage Grove.
Scully bought the building in 2014, and last year received city land-use approval to process cannabis oil there.
That permission from Cottage Grove city officials came three months after Scully was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Eugene to 90 days in prison for overseeing a money laundering scheme in which he used a Eugene coffee kiosk as a business front to distribute marijuana to other states.
Scully, 34, completed his prison sentence in March and began a three-year term of supervised release, which involves regular check-ins with a probation officer. While on supervised release, Scully is prohibited from frequenting places where drugs are illegally sold, used, distributed or administered, according to court records.
Under Oregon law, state officials now regulate the production, sale and use of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes.
But pot remains illegal under federal law, and Cummings wrote in his request to search the property where the explosion occurred that authorities are investigating Scully for federal crimes including the manufacture of marijuana, and possession with intent to distribute the drug
The move marks a rare instance in which federal officials have taken action against an Oregon maker of pot products. For the most part, federal officials have turned a blind eye to Oregon’s pot industry.
No new criminal charges had been filed against Scully as of Friday.
Local police called DEA
Efforts by The Register-Guard to reach Scully and his family members on Friday were unsuccessful, and an attorney who represented Scully in the previous federal case did not return phone and email messages.
Court records show that after a judge approved the DEA’s request to search the North Lane Street building following last month’s explosion, agents seized 728 growing marijuana plants; roughly 1,200 pounds of marijuana; 85 pounds of concentrated cannabis; computers and cellphones; video surveillance recordings; a pickup truck and trailer; lab equipment; nearly $26,000 in cash found in a backpack; and documents including pay/owe records, bills and dispensary lists.
The warrant affidavit says DEA agents began their investigation one day after the explosion, when Cottage Grove police officer Josh Dumas contacted them about the incident.
Dumas reached out to federal authorities because of the quantity of the marijuana on the property, the fact that Scully is on supervised federal release, and because the explosion was caused by the production of cannabis oil, which involves the use of a solvent such as butane to extract the main psychoactive compounds of marijuana from the plant.
According to the affidavit, Dumas told DEA agents that he had checked with the Oregon Liquor Control Commission and the Oregon Health Authority — two state agencies that oversee Oregon’s marijuana programs — and learned that the property was not a licensed marijuana growing or processing location.
OHA records indicated that there had been two medical marijuana patients associated with the address, but that their permits had expired.
Cummings noted in the affidavit that the amount of marijuana found on the property exceeds the allowable amount that can be possessed or grown for two patients under Oregon law.
Cottage Grove Public Works and Development Director Faye Stewart stressed Friday that the city had given Scully permission to use the property to process cannabis oil, provided he obtain the appropriate state marijuana permits.
Agent notes 2016 visit
Scully didn’t provide a statement to police or consent to a search of the property before he was taken to a Portland hospital for treatment of his burn injuries, Cummings wrote. Scully indicated he was working with two separate attorneys at the time, although the affidavit doesn’t name those lawyers.
Cummings wrote that last month wasn’t the first time that he had been to the North Lane Street property.
In July 2016 — while Scully was awaiting sentencing in his earlier federal case — Cummings saw a “known drug trafficker” tied to a separate investigation go to the property at a time when a vehicle registered to a relative of Scully’s also was there, the affidavit says.
Cummings asserted that he believes the marijuana and extracts found on the property following the explosion were being prepared for distribution. He does not state where. Also, he wrote that a pound of indoor-grown pot can sell for between $1,000 and $4,000 depending on where it’s sold in the United States.
In the money laundering case that resulted in prison time for Scully, authorities said he and his associates netted more than $1 million through illegal marijuana sales during more than two years, starting in late 2012.
After Scully, his mother and his fiancee were convicted in the case, authorities seized nearly $200,000 in cash along with items including high-end watches, jewelry, firearms, clothing and vehicles.
Authorities said that marijuana grown by Scully prior to his arrest in the earlier case was shipped through the U.S. Postal Service to other states including California, Arizona, Arkansas, South Carolina and Georgia.
When he stood before U.S. District Judge Michael McShane for sentencing in September 2016, Scully apologized to federal authorities who spent time on his case when they had “more pressing” matters to investigate. He also asserted that he’s a medical pot advocate who survived cancer because of marijuana, and that his crimes weren’t “about just making money.”
McShane cut off Scully, pointing out that he didn’t pay taxes on any of the illicit proceeds. The judge appeared somewhat astonished by the long list of expensive items purchased with the drug money, and called Scully’s statement “one of the hollowest apologies I’ve ever heard in federal court.”
McShane called the 90-day prison sentence that he imposed in the case to be “a slap on the wrist.” Scully, however, appeared to disagree. He cursed and complained about the hearing being a “joke” as he left the courtroom
OregonBorn
Active member
There seems to be no CBD oil out there to be had any more. It used to be common, but no longer. So I went another route. I found 100% CBD isolate from a place in Colorado (CBD Distillery). Lab tested at 99.5% CBD, and 0.28% CBDv. About as pure as you can get. A gram is $38 shipped priority USPS. A half gram is $28 shipped. I can dissolve it in vitamin E or coconut oil to whatever potency that I want.
PDX Dopesmoker
Active member
I was in Mellow Mood (a headshop) near PSU a couple days ago picking up some new screens, they stock CBD isolates now at $36/g tax free, I forget the brand name, but it says 99% on the packaging. Has anyone been in a dispensary lately?
OregonBorn
Active member
I avoid downtown PDX like the plague these days. I went to eight shops on the east side last week, and looked online. None in Portland had pure CBD listed online that I could find. For the extra $2 I would rather have it delivered to my mailbox.
PDX Dopesmoker
Active member
Moser seed's ACDC x Pennywise is still the highest testing lab report I've seen on any individual plant.
On the topic of seeds, I just was reminded that the legal possession limit for seeds without a license is 10 seeds. I was trying to look up what the penalties were because they have a scale of penalties for the other possession limits based on how hard you bust them and how many previous convictions you have and I was wondering exactly how much risk the seed collection was costing me.
On the topic of seeds, I just was reminded that the legal possession limit for seeds without a license is 10 seeds. I was trying to look up what the penalties were because they have a scale of penalties for the other possession limits based on how hard you bust them and how many previous convictions you have and I was wondering exactly how much risk the seed collection was costing me.
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Robrites
Shakeup at prominent cannabis lab follows allegations two owners have neo-Nazi ties
Shakeup at prominent cannabis lab follows allegations two owners have neo-Nazi ties
http://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/index.ssf/2017/12/eugene_cannabis_lab_owner_plan.html
Shakeup at prominent cannabis lab follows allegations two owners have neo-Nazi ties
http://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/index.ssf/2017/12/eugene_cannabis_lab_owner_plan.html
Aota1
Member
^they're done, blackballed. They also helped craft the new testing regs that brought available labs to a minimum and put many producers and smaller labs out of business during the switchover. When testing was bottlenecked due to new standards that didn't allow a phase-in period for labs. This was done right before legislature went on a 5 month break and could address it. Backlog on product testing grew and og analytical profits did as well.
I found this article interesting. Dwindling Medical market in OR
https://www.civilized.life/articles/medical-marijuana-businesses-hurting-legalized-states/
https://www.civilized.life/articles/medical-marijuana-businesses-hurting-legalized-states/
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"The newspaper noted that as a result, many medical marijuana dispensaries are either switching to recreational or going out of business. One county in Oregon had 31 medical dispensaries in April 2015. Today, that number is down to only two, and it's possible it will be zero next year."
Medical is done here....by design. Once the OLCC took over they wanted all control.
I see that. I was thinking about the extra workload for Medical with the adoption of the CTS. But looks like they are all done.
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Robrites
Wow talk about an epic fail. This whole legalization thing only happend because the rich want the money us poor folk survive on. Thats the penalty if you had several hundred plants sea of green style in a small room that you could easily fill with 4 big plants?
frostqueen
Active member
The concept of plant number limitations is fucking idiotic and always will be. When one plant can have pounds on it, why would it matter if you instead had 16 smaller plants to get a similar amount?
Oregon has created such a pointless bureaucratic clusterfuck that the black market is assured a long and healthy life. Thanks, Oregon Liquor Control Cartel.
