Oregon's recreational marijuana market expands to edibles and extracts ...

[L. Coyote]

Source: Oregonian = Noelle Crombie

From dawn until midnight, Andi Bixel churns out ice cream. She's made so much ice cream that the machine has started to act up. She bought another this week so she can keep going without a break.

You won't find Bixel's treats, made with local ingredients like lavender and honey, in Portland's famous ice cream parlors or trendy grocery stores. Her cold confections are infused with marijuana.

Bixel's startup, Drip Ice Cream, is one of dozens jockeying for shelf space and new consumers as Oregon continues the gradual rollout of its recreational marijuana program.

Starting Thursday, anyone 21 and older can buy marijuana-infused edibles and extracts at medical marijuana dispensaries selling to the recreational market. It's the latest milestone in Oregon's effort to create a regulated marketplace for one of the state's most popular commodities.

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Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/index.ssf/2016/06/oregons_recreational_marijuana.html

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"Oregon health officials are urging novice marijuana users to start slow when pot-infused edibles are introduced in the state’s legal recreational market June 2. ...." more

...Starting June 2, OHA-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries participating in the program can sell a couple new marijuana products:

One low-dose cannabis-based edible to each customer per day — 15 milligrams or less of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Non-psychoactive medical cannabinoid topicals (lotions, balms), which have a THC content of six percent or less.
One prefilled container or cartridge of marijuana extract per customer — a maximum of 1,000 milligrams (1 gram) of THC.

.... roughly 340 registered dispensaries across the state (according to OHA’s website) ... more

Meanwhile: Another Colorado Brewery is Making Marijuana-Infused Beer

[forest444]

1. Key word there being EDIBLES.

[scscholar]

2. Sad to see they're going to start having the problems we're having...

here in Seattle. It's illegal to possess or sell it so the industry attracts criminals. Law abiding people, of course, wouldn't be involved with that business.

[Jesus Malverde]

3. Not sure what your saying?

Was there no black market before they made it legal in Washington? Why wouldn't you expect there to be a black market afterwards especially since they tax it unreasonably.

[scscholar]

4. I'm talking about the stores here in Seattle.

It's illegal for them to possess or sell it, so they attract only criminals to own and work in them. Example of the worse:

http://www.thestranger.com/news/2016/06/01/24145248/uncle-ikes-pot-shop-admits-it-violated-seattles-minimum-wage-law

They were stealing from employees. Until it's legalized, only criminals will continue to be interested in being associated with committing crimes. After all, they are criminals by definition.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. It's legal in Washington. Every industry has some or even most who rip off employees, the

mainstream businesses like fast food often being the worst. The legal status of this business is why the employee was able to enforce regulations and correct the problem, that's not possible with a criminal enterprise. So you are full of crap.

[Jesus Malverde]

6. Not full of crap...

Just confused..

[scscholar]

7. It is not legal here in Washington. It's not legal in any state.

Why would you say otherwise?

[Quantess]

10. Have you been to Oregon lately?

Marijuana is as good as legal, with restrictions depending on the county. Been to Multnomah county lately?

[LoverOfLiberty]

18. From my work place

There are 5 dispensaries within 5 minutes walking. There are more dispensaries than Starbucks.

[Alkene]

14. This "Stranger" story deserves its own thread.

I can't sanction your assessment of character, but I have to ask rhetorically about the story: Since when did retail cashiers become tipped service employees with tip-credit deductions to their wages?

Uncle Ike's is not a cafe or coffee shop, and the "budtenders" aren't waiters or barista's. They should be considered analogous to what Washington State Liquor Store employees were (before they were all kicked to the pavement), and compensated accordingly.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Much better! Good for Oregon. n/t

[L. Coyote]

9. Willamette Week: Five Anti-Anxiety Cannabis Strains to Try - Stay Calm and...

Five Anti-Anxiety Cannabis Strains to Try - Stay Calm and...
By Janelle Albukhari

If given the choice between a dose of Prozac and a well-rolled joint, I'll pick the J every time.

When it's in full swing, my anxiety can prohibit me from doing even the most basic of tasks. I lose the ability to concentrate, and can't socialize, sleep or go outside.

Since I first became a medical marijuana patient back in California, I've been successfully using cannabis to combat my anxiety in lieu of traditional pharmaceuticals. It provides me with relief from things like panic attacks while also stimulating my creativity.

I've been keeping notes on the best strains for anxiety since I moved to Portland ...........

[Bad Dog]

11. There's always a problem with grey areas.

The coffeeshops in Amsterdam have to check ID at the front door and follow all sorts of regulations while they're buying their supplies from the criminals at the back door. It seems to have rumbled along OK, but full legalisation would make things so much easier, and better, for everyone.

[metalbot]

13. I've argued elsewhere that decriminalization has some bad consequenses

The upside is that it protects end users, and clears courts of what would be otherwise pointless charges.

The downside is that it criminalizes a supply chain that becomes increasingly valuable due to an uptick in demand. Since the supply chain is where the money is, it actually increases the likelihood of violence for control.

[Bad Dog]

16. Unfortunately the conservative elements in society

take it as proof that decriminalisation is a failure and that legalisation would be worse.

[Bad Dog]

12. Meanwhile: Another Colorado Brewery is Making Marijuana-Infused Beer

This has been going on for a while, but in the UK it's just for flavour will low THC plants used. Cannabis and hops are in the same family.

[Arazi]

15. I like this news

[Bad Dog]

17. I've had the non THC legal in the UK beer.

It's very nice, I can only imagine what the THC+ stuff is like.

[LoverOfLiberty]

19. Is this legal in CO?

I'm pretty sure in Oregon the liquor commission will not allow this. However, for us home brewers.......

[Bad Dog]

20. I haven't got a clue what's legal in Colorado.

Or anywhere else in America for that matter. I live in England. Over here cannabis, (the drug) is illegal, but ultra low yield THC plants, (so low it's just not worth bothering with) hemp plants can be grown for paper, cosmetics, flavouring beer, and a lot of other things. All they add to beer is flavour, nothing else.