Measure 91 – High Times for Oregonians. According to OregonLive.com, here, there are 23 states that currently have medical marijuana laws on the books. Oregon was one of them. On November 4, 2014, Oregon joined a smaller group of pot-friendly states (Washington, Colorado, Alaska, and the District of Columbia), to permit the recreational use of cannabis.[1] I will leave it to the wordsmiths to explain how the term “recreational use” found its way into our lexicon when discussing the use of marijuana. “Recreation” is the last thing one thinks about when taking a toke – or so I’m told…. Continue reading “Recreational Marijuana: Oregon’s New Joint Venture”
“Then God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;’” ~Genesis 1:29
The Portland Business Journal recently reported [MBank exploring medical marijuana banking] that Gresham-based MBank is toking talking about possibly:
…providing banking services to the medial marijuana market. According to the bank’s President and CEO, Jef Baker:
There’s “clearly a need to provide a banking solution for law enforcement and taxing agency concerns about what has become an all-cash business in Oregon,
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While MBank takes no stand in support of, nor opposition to medical marijuana, there is clearly a need to provide a banking solution for law enforcement and taxing agency concerns about what has become an all-cash business in Oregon,” Baker said in an email.
Continue reading “MBank’s New Joint Venture – Marijuana Banking!”
