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Cloud 9 Cannabis CEO and co-owner Sam Ward Jr. smiles while posing for a photo in a throne photo-op for customers, Saturday, April 13, 2024, in Arlington, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Oregon Ballot Measure 119, the Unionization of Cannabis Workers Initiative, is a proposed Oregon state initiative that will be decided by voters as part of the 2024 Oregon elections on November 5, 2024. [1] [2] If approved by voters, it will make it easier for workers in the Cannabis industry to unionize. [3]
This story will be updated at 8 p.m. with the first election returns. Measure 119 asks Oregon voters whether to give protection to cannabis workers trying to unionize their workplaces.
After a 2023 bill to make it easier for cannabis workers to unionize failed to pass in the Oregon Legislature, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 took their fight to voters with ...
News report by Voice of America about the business effect of cannabis in Colorado, with 700 million dollars in sales. In Colorado, effects since 2014 include increased state revenues, [20] violent crime decreased, [21] [22] and an increase in homeless population. [23] One Colorado hospital has received a 15% increase in babies born with THC in ...
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), cannabis is readily available in Oregon. [4] According to a 2006 report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, in 2003–2004, Oregon ranked in the top fifth of states for cannabis usage in three age categories: 12 to 17, 18 to 25, and 26 and older. [5]
Retail sales outlets will be licensed by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which must begin accepting applications on or before January 4, 2016. [7] Early sales started October 1, 2015 through existing medical marijuana dispensaries. [9] Sales topped $11 million in the first week that recreational marijuana was legally available for sale in ...
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