Oregon

Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan announced her resignation Tuesday, less than a week after it was revealed that she had taken a lucrative side job. Fagan, who announced her resignation in a press release, took a second job as a consultant for an embattled cannabis company while her office was

SALEM - Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan announced Monday she has quit her consultancy with a marijuana company and apologized to Oregonians for "harming the trust that I've worked so hard to build." But she also says she followed state ethics guidelines in taking the outside position to

DENVER - Denver lost its place as the nation’s marijuana mecca, according to an analysis from Clever Real Estate. The new king of kush is Portland, Oregon. Oregon was two years behind Colorado in legalizing recreational cannabis. Washington and Colorado legalized it in 2012, while Alaska and Oregon

OREGON - A mother was arrested after police say her 4-year-old overdosed on a marijuana gummy. The Oregon Police Department reports officers responded to a Stoughton hospital Tuesday afternoon for a 4-year-old in their care. Police say the child's mother and another adult couldn't get the child to

Jim Belushi first ventured into the cannabis industry in 2015 when he got involved in farming a 48-plant crop in Southern Oregon. ( Benzinga) Today, Belushi's Farm has grown to a massive cannabis empire slated to appear in Discovery's. hit series "Growing Belushi" as the show returns this week for a

ONTARIO - When Steven Meland and his business partner opened up Hotbox Farms in the small eastern Oregon city of Ontario they knew there was a big opportunity lying just across the Snake River. Ontario, population 11,600, is less than an hour's drive from Idaho's largest metro area, Boise

Cannabis and running go together, Oregon runner Stephen Snazuk says. One runner in Oregon is speaking out about how cannabis helps improve his running routine. Long distance and cross-country runners often say cannabis can put them into a meditative state and enable them to power through a grueling

Despite a 6.4% sales decline, Malheur County was Oregon's per capita leader in cannabis sales in 2022 - its third straight year at No. 1. PORTLAND - It might take actually moving the Oregon-Idaho border west to end Malheur County’s reign as Oregon’s top pot spot. Despite a 6.4% sales decline, the

Here's a closer look at the top five businesses, ranked by Oregon employment, on our annual cannabis list, involved in many intriguing stories this year. The 23 Oregon firms that responded to our survey for the list of cannabis- and hemp-related businesses this year employed 1,788 workers across the

PORTLAND - Three teenage boys were arrested after using two stolen cars to crash through the doors of three marijuana dispensaries in Southeast Portland and rob them of merchandise early Monday morning, police said. Officers reported that the minors used stolen Kias to drive through the locked

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday she is pardoning an estimated 45,000 people convicted of simple possession of cannabis, a month after President Joe Biden did the same under federal law. “No one deserves to be forever saddled with the impacts of a conviction for simple possession of marijuana

CORVALLIS - An Oregon State University study found that spent hemp biomass – the main byproduct of the cannabinoid (CBD) extraction process of hemp – can be included in lamb diets without any major detrimental effects to the health of the animals or their meat quality. The findings are significant