New grow sites allowed 48 plants in non-residential, 12 in residential areas
SALEM – Lawmakers tasked with regulating recreational marijuana are moving forward with a bill that some medical dispensary owners fear may limit plant diversity and lead to higher costs of medical marijuana in Oregon.
A group of growers and dispensary owners sounded the alarm Sunday night that the joint committee charged with regulating a recreational marijuana industry was proposing new limits to the number of plants each medical marijuana grower could possess.
But lawmakers say they’re putting in place new reporting requirements and plant restrictions for new medical marijuana grow sites – 12 in residential areas and 48 in nonresidential – to stem a flow of marijuana to the black market that they say would hamper the recreational market as adult use becomes legal over the next year.
