News and Events
There’s a whole world of activities and initiatives revolving around craft cannabis. Keep up to date with all the latest news, trends and events.
BREAKING NEWS
Year-to-date sales in Oregon have reached $922.9 million, growing by 38 percent compared to the same period in 2019.
Oregon
Landowners risk consequences from cannabis
Attention Southern Oregon agricultural property owners: Consider yourself on notice. It’s been common knowledge for some time that Jackson and Josephine counties are the scene of illegal marijuana growing. Some of them are massive operations featuring multiple...
Migrant Oregon weed workers face threats amid illegal boom
SALEM, Ore. — Thousands of immigrants working on southern Oregon illegal marijuana farms that authorities say are run by foreign cartels are living in squalid conditions and are sometimes being cheated and threatened by their gangland bosses. The situation has gotten...
CONGRESSMAN BENTZ CALLS FOR JUSTICE DEPARTMENT’S HELP WITH ILLEGAL MARIJUANA GROWS
WASHINGTON, DC — After a brief segue into the issue of illegal marijuana grows in southern Oregon during a US House Judiciary meeting with Atorney General Merrick Garland last month, Congressman Cliff Bentz followed up with a letter to the nation's top law enforcement...
States
Five years later, legal marijuana remains unfinished business in Massachusetts
On Nov. 8, 2016, Massachusetts voters legalized marijuana, closing a door on more than a century of prohibition and opening one to an uncertain new era. In doing so, they brushed past gloomy prophecies from opponents — a spike in youth consumption, a rash of stoned...
5 years after California legalized weed, the illicit market dominates
NPR California voters legalized recreational marijuana, but its cannabis market remains largely illicit. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with reporter Amanda Chicago Lewis about why. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tomorrow marks five years since California voters passed Proposition...
New York Regulators Approve New Rules for Hemp Products, Prohibit the Sale of Delta-8 THC
In a Nov. 3 meeting, the New York Cannabis Control Board (CCB) approved new rules for the state's hemp program, allowing for the sale of hemp flower but prohibiting the sale of delta-8 THC products in the state. During the meeting, the CCB addressed several issues...
National
Leaked Document Shows How Legal Weed Could Go Horribly Wrong
As an emerging industry with sky-high revenue projections, lofty social-justice promises, and ground rules currently being written from scratch, no business in America prompts ready comparisons to Silicon Valley like legal cannabis. But though analysts project legal...
Republican-Led Bill To Legalize And Tax Marijuana Emerges As Alternative To Democratic Measures
A new Republican-led congressional marijuana legalization bill is imminent, Marijuana Moment has learned. The measure is being framed by advocates as a compromise between simple descheduling as proposed by other GOP lawmakers and wide-ranging comprehensive legislation...
IRS Chief Says Agency Would ‘Prefer’ If Marijuana Businesses Could Pay Taxes Electronically
The head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) told Congress this week that the federal agency would “prefer” for state-legal marijuana businesses to be able to pay taxes electronically, as the current largely cash-based system under federal cannabis prohibition is...
F.A.R.M.S. Inc's Educational Series:
Optimizing Your Farm & Business
Like all of you, we have been intently following reports of COVID-19 and abiding by the social distancing protocols set in place by the Oregon Health Authority. With that in mind, we are unable to meet in-person for our Educational Series. However…moving forward all classes will be held online. Now farmers from all over the State and the Country will have access to these incredible classes.
As always, these classes are complimentary for ALL.
