Oregon Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Return to Patients Only January 1, 2017
As of January 1, 2017, Oregons medical marijuana dispensaries will no longer be able to sell to adults 21 or older without a valid medical marijuana card as the states early recreational marijuana sales end.
Adults 21 or older wishing to purchase marijuana for recreational use will only be able to do so from retail marijuana shops licensed by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Currently, there are about 100 recreational pot shops licensed statewide.
Limited recreational marijuana sales at medical marijuana dispensaries began in October 2015. When Oregon voters approved Measure 91 in 2014, legalizing recreational marijuana for adults, the state had until this year to licence and open recreational marijuana stores.
But the statelegislature took the unusual step of allowing existing medical marijuanadispensaries to sell marijuana to recreational users in an effort to curb black market sales while the Oregon Liquor Control Commission worked to develop the recreational ...
