The City Council will consider financial incentives to smaller marijuana businesses that employ people convicted of marijuana-related crimes on Wednesday.
The 2015 Oregon Legislature reduced sentences for marijuana-related crimes after state voters approved legalized recreational marijuana at the November 2014 election.
The Social Equity Program introduced by Commissioner Chloe Eudaly would reduce license and permitting costs for businesses with 25 percent or greater ownership represented by people with a federal or state conviction for a criminal offense committed prior to July 1, 2015 in which possession, delivery or manufacture of marijuana or marijuana items was an element, whether a misdemeanor or felony.
The same breaks would apply to businesses with 20 percent or greater staff hours represented by such people.
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