Willamette Week

The Peabody Award-winning "Portlandia" about the city and Oregon's reputation as a haven for cool, eccentric hipsters might need an update with a few advisors from "The House of Cards." Oregon’s ongoing scandal-tainted cannabis industry, which is ...

Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), a House sponsor of a bipartisan marijuana banking reform bill, filed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last week that would be incorporated into the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act. The move came after bipartisan...

This article by Beau R. Whitney was originally published on Willamette Week, and appears here with permission. Demand will be lower than in the “work from stoned” era, but not fall back to pre-COVID levels. While many struggled in 2020 due to COVID-19, the pandemic proved to be a...

A month ago, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown ordered a six-month ban on flavored vape products. After two weeks, the Oregon Court of Appeals terminated the ban on flavored nicotine vapes, but not cannabis products.  On Oct. 31, cannabis distributor Herban Industries Oregon, which operates as...

With concern over vaping safety mounting and a seventh person's death attributed to vaping-related causes, a testing lab in Oregon is offering a solution.  Pixis Lab, a food, environmental and cannabis testing lab, has created a matrix that detects vitamin E acetate in cannabis...