Legal pot sales begin at 12:01 Thursday

“It’s the end of a prohibition”. For opponents of legalization, who worry about its health impacts, it marks a potentially risky new turn.

In the past several days the store’s interior was modified to accommodate recreational marijuana purchasers, and employees received instruction in the legal and procedural differences between selling medicinal and recreational pot.

Maurer said that those who are thinking of purchasing cannabis for the first time should feel free to ask questions and try many different options.

“We expect to be busy”, Whitlock said.

Robert Reyes, a manager at Kind Heart Collective, a medical dispensary in Portland that will be selling to recreational customers, agreed with Maurer.

California legislature too are readdressing their cannabis laws come the first of the year, but among the wisest of moves is that they are governing it more appropriately via their states department of Agriculture… after all, who else knows the ins and outs of plant cultivation as far as any state government agency is concerned, especially insisting it be regulated “like alcohol”. He said he’ll be watching what happens elsewhere in the state as retail sales begin and would be willing to reverse course if Crook County residents warm to the idea. You cannot purchase concentrates, extracts, topicals, or edibles, though you are allowed to make edibles in the privacy of your own home.

For now there is no tax on recreational marijuana sales.

Juliano Hamana, 24, samples the aroma of one of the offerings at… Cannacea will have free samples, giveaways and a live band. Shoppers have one more incentive to buy early and often: Under Oregon law, pot purchases will be tax-free until January-a savings of up to 20%.

“States are proving that regulating marijuana works, both for medical and broader adult use”, said Lauren Vazquez, an MPP spokeswoman. A few of the more than 250 dispensaries that already offer medical marijuana in Oregon opened their doors soon after midnight-just moments after it became legal to sell to anyone who is at least 21.

Additionally as well, there is talk that a dispensary operator much have a license from the state which have most proprietors upset at the thought of having to choose and then likely change their licensing with the state of Oregon just because they want to sell to healthy too.

Oregon is a popular destination for medical marijuana and for marijuana which is available in the black market, according to U.S. news.

Growers don’t face strict regulations yet, so the supply can more easily flow into retail stores than it did in Washington and Colorado.

Bringing the sale of marijuana out of the shadows will be good for users and for society in general, by eliminating the criminal aspects of the business. Summer has historically been a time of marijuana shortages in Oregon, and most of the outdoor crop isn’t ready to harvest. Indoor growers have had minimal time to ramp up production, since lawmakers only approved the October. 1 start date three months ago.