An employee replaces a bin of cannabis flower at Hotbox Farms, a dispensary in Ontario, Ore., after filling a customer’s order. Hotbox was founded by Idahoans and was one of the first companies to open a dispensary in the Oregon-Idaho border region. | Natalie Fertig/POLITICOONTARIO, Ore. — When Brandon St. Germain got in line to apply for a marijuana dispensary license in“We're talking ex-military veterans,” St. Germain said. “They're standing there with M-16s.
In the year and a half since Ontario began allowing weed sales, nine dispensaries have opened. It’s estimated that the city will generate $120 to $130 million in annual sales when the cannabis industry is fully up and running — that’s more than 10 percent of Oregon’s sales in 2020. It paid off. Once the city opened up the licensing process, the company St. Germain worked for — Spokane, Wash.-based chain Cannabis & Glass — got a license. And St. Germain himself got a new job out of the experience: Jeremy Archie, co-owner of Treasure Valley Cannabis Company, poached him while they stood in line together.
Ontario is the only city in Malheur County that allows weed sales. The county of about 32,000 residents had $92 million in cannabis sales in 2020,. By contrast, 48,000-resident Lincoln County, a popular tourist area for legal weed, generated about $21 million. Ontario’s nine dispensaries sold an eye-popping $2,857 of cannabis per county resident in 2020.
“The problem is, you don't know what you're getting [in the illicit market],” said 46-year-old Michelle — who asked that her last name be left out because she planned to take products back across the border into Idaho. There’s less risk in consuming the Oregon products, she added, because you know “it didn't get transported in a gas tank.”
Pennsylvanians will likely soon be popping into Camden, N.J., to partake in the Garden State’s newest crop, as will shoppers from Maryland and Delaware — all depositing tax dollars into New Jersey’s coffers.of the state, the race is now on to see how Hoboken and Manhattan compete — at least for a little while — on cannabis-driven PATH traffic as they stand up their marijuana industries.
This paints a pretty idealistic & rosy portrait of “historic Ontario.” I grew up in Ontario, and while I no longer call it home, it has been a shit hole for well over a decade now. I don’t think weed made it any worse.
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FYI the wildlife refuge takeover was in a different county 150 miles from Ontario.
All laws were written for the user but not for those that will suffer the consequences of being an unwilling participant.
ignores the violence in Portland.
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