About the Data: While the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) maintains a “Record of complete nor clear picture of where adult-use cannabis sales are prohibited in the state.
Per the record, 95 cities and counties prohibit all cannabis businesses (except for labs), and one city prohibits retail only. (There are 241 incorporated cities and 36 counties in Oregon.) Seventeen (47%) of Oregon’s 36 counties prohibit all or most cannabis businesses; however, “There are counties where there is licensed activity taking place, but that’s because it’s in (incorporated) cities within those counties,” Mark Pettinger, OLCC director of communications and education, and spokesperson for the cannabis program, told Cannabis Business Times. (Incorporated cities have elected officials and a formal local government.) “So it wouldn’t be accurate to say that that’s not taking place in 17 out of 36 counties …. Without doing a cross-check of what counties all the cities are located in there’s no way to tell—we don’t have a database with that information.”
Data Source: OLCC
About Oregon’s Adult-Use Cannabis Program: Oregon became the third state to legalize adult-use cannabis when voters approved ballot Measure 91 in the Nov. 4, 2014, election. Adult-use sales began Oct. 1, 2015.
