September 23, 2015 Portland NORML Membership Meeting recap
Our membership meeting this past week was a great experience. Although we had a change of venue to the Analog and a different time slot then when we normally hold our meetings, we still...
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Local Roundup for Oregon Cannabis September 28, 2015
Every week, we are trying to keep our membership up-to-date on what is happening around the state with local bans and regulation. Here is this week’s local roundup: This week is the week! October...
Local Roundup for Oregon Cannabis September 21, 2015
In this week’s roundup, we have one city behaving particularly maliciously: the City of Gresham is reportedly using the OMMP registry to identify registered growers, and then issuing letters indicating that they would be...
Local Roundup for Oregon Cannabis September 14, 2015
Another busy week for local marijuana regulations in our weekly roundup. In the past week, cities and counties have been buckling down on the issue of early sales to adults on October 1st. The...
Announcement: Alternate venue and schedule for September’s Membership Meeting: Sept. 23 7:30pm at the Analog (720 SE Hawthorne St.)
As you all know, we typically hold our Portland NORML Membership meetings on the 4th Saturday of each month at noon. However, our Executive Director, Russ Belville, is booked every weekend this month with...
Local Roundup for Oregon Cannabis September 7, 2015
As we approach the October 1st early sales of marijuana from medical dispensaries, more localities are taking up the topic of marijuana. The most promising thing about these discussions aren’t the outcomes - as...
Local Roundup for Oregon Cannabis August 31, 2015
Continuing with our weekly effort to notify our membership on what is happening with bans and other regulatory action statewide, here is our local roundup: This week, two of the most prominent cities in...
Recap: Portland NORML Membership Meeting August 22, 2015
If you didn’t make it out to our last membership meeting this past Saturday, you missed an awesome presentation by Joy Beckerman Maher on hempcrete. We learned a lot about this incredible building material...
August 14, 2015 Volunteer Recap: Recreational Marijuana Rules Advisory Committee
We requested the help of our volunteers to attend the various Rules Advisory Committee meetings and report back with their notes. Another terrific volunteer, Joseph Vaught, has provided us with his notes from the...
Local Roundup for Oregon Cannabis August 17, 2015
Continuing with our weekly effort to notify our membership on what is happening with bans and other regulatory action statewide, here is our local roundup: Roseburg City Council votes 5 to 3 to allow...