Mongoose Cannabis Co.’s Walk-Up Window Is Temporary, but It Might Be a Preview of the Future of Weed Retail Even now that it’s once again open for in-store business, Mongoose Cannabis Co. remains perhaps the only dispensary in Portland operating a walk-up window, a service that the Oregon Liquor Control Commission temporarily allowed in the same set of rule changes that permitted a budtender to meet you in the parking lot or at curbside for pickup.
The Cannabis Shopkeepers Selling Vape Cartridges Don’t Know What’s Inside Them Much of the scrutiny for vaping deaths falls on dilutants.
Oregon Authorities Won’t Release the Names of Two Cannabis Stores That May Have Sold Fatal Vaping Products
Oregon Cannabis Sales Are Skyrocketing. But Who’s Buying All That Weed? The OLCC says two retailers in Multnomah County accounted for more than one-third of all Oregon sales of 8 ounces or more. That’s suspicious.
Deep-Pocketed Investors Are Storming Oregon’s Cannabis Market. They’re Shifting the Business Model From Mom-and-Pop Shops to Starbucks. William Simpson, founder of Chalice farms, hopes his brand becomes as recognizable as the Golden Arches.
The Dialogue: What Readers Had to Say About Oregon’s Cannabis Surplus Last week, WW wrote about Oregon’s cannabis dilemma. The state grew roughly three times as much weed as customers consume in a year (“Too Much Weed,” WW, April 18, 2018).
Oregon Grew More Cannabis Than Customers Can Smoke. Now Shops and Farmers Are Left With Mountains of Unwanted Bud. A recent Sunday afternoon at the Bridge City Collective cannabis shop in North Portland saw a steady flow of customers. Little wonder: A gram of weed was selling for less than the price of a glass of wine.
Nine Of Our Favorite New Portland Weed Hookups—Including One Delivery Service Trees is the future of dispensaries. In addition to being almost entirely women-run, it’s one of the few shops constructed after an April law that eliminated the rule requiring a waiting room.