In 1986, the popular children’s show character Pee Wee Herman, with his goofy high voice and red polka dot bowtie, barrelled a TV camera in a dark room holding up a vial of crack cocaine. In one of the...

Indigenous law is complicated; various reservations and nations are all recognized differently, at different times, by different laws. They don’t all have the same rights, and there are plenty of cases...

It has been a decade of legal marijuana in the state of Oregon. With so many positive goals and aspirations attached to the legalization of marijuana, looking back over the past ten years, the question...

The United States has the highest incarceration rate on the planet. As of 2021, the U.S. incarceration rate stands at 664 per 100,000 people. The state of Oregon holds 555 people per 100,000. When counted...

With cannabis consumption becoming more common and accepted across the United States, many states have begun loosening restrictions regarding pre-employment drug testing for cannabis. For example, starting...

To many, labor unions evoke an image of blue-collar workers on the East Coast: rough-and-tumble teamsters who hang out at their union clubhouse and may or may not have mob affiliations. This image has...

Being an attorney for 31 years, Paul Loney has been involved in cannabis legalization since the beginning. “I was the first attorney in the state to start representing legal marijuana businesses back...

Despite cannabis being legal both recreationally and medically in the state of Oregon, there are still many barriers regarding cannabis not being federally legal. One of those barriers is banking. Currently,...

Something about this time of year just seems so bud-iful.  As another 4/20 is rolling around the corner, let’s take a look at the significance behind the day and how this simple number...

The United States has the second-largest inmate population in the world. With 1.7 million incarcerated individuals, over 20% of the world's inmate population is found in the U.S. An estimated 40,000...

With the introduction of larger retailers with more capital and resources to the cannabis industry and overproduction being at an all-time high, smaller locally-owned cannabis businesses are...

In 2023 it was reported that approximately 86.2% of Oregon’s state population is white, according to the Oregon Census Bureau. When considering the racial disparity in cannabis arrests in Oregon...