Oregon Okays Medical Marijuana Delivery For Patients, Providers

PORTLAND, OR – It's not like you're going to be able to pull up the Grubhub app on your phone and get a nickel bag delivered. Yet, anyway.

What you will be able to do, however, is get medical marijuana delivered.

The rule applies to patients and health care providers.

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It was one of several new rules just approved by the Oregon State Liquor Control Commission.

The commission oversees the licensing and regulation of medical marijuana in Oregon.

Several other new rules and rule changes were approved by the commission, including:

• Increasing the amount of medical marijuana a patient can purchase to eight ounces in a single day and up to 32 ounces in a single month;
• Allowing wholesale license holders to provide retailers with samples
• Creating a denial basis for licensees who fail to complete the renewal process, and for license applicants found to have an unauthorized interest in a licensed business;
• Ending the issuance of new licenses to processors as alternating proprietors (shared kitchen) on the same licensed premises for applications received after January 1, 2019, but grandfathering all current processors in alternating proprietorships;
• Clarifying camera coverage for waste material and amending the penalty structure for violations based on the amount of missing camera footage and the number of offenses; and
• Redefining the allowable shape of canopy areas a producer may have and including an allowance for producers to obtain a professional survey in lieu of the quadrilateral shape requirement.

The new rules to into effect on December 29, 2019.

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