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The 2024 Oregon legislative session kicked off yesterday. It’s a short session this year, with adjournment sine die set for March 10. Whatever hasn’t passed by that day will be scuttled to 2025, or fade to black entirely.
This year, we have but one cannabis bill to cover– unless you count HB 4093, which would require at least one Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) commissioner to have a public health background. This stuffy proposal has been batted around in prior sessions but failed to become law.
Anyway, the cannabis bill for 2024 is HB 4121. It’s topically broad. HB 4121 was drafted by legislative cannabis guru Rob Bovett, who no longer works for the counties but continues to perform a valuable public service in drafting Oregon’s cannabis laws, as he has since forever. Rob tells me his marching orders for 2024 were to submit something noncontroversial, bipartisan and bi-cameral. HB 4093 is generally that (see Rob’s testimony here).
Why does the bill have to be noncontroversial, etc.? I explained in my annual “State of the State” post in December that:
The first big task for CIAO [Oregon’s newly consolidated cannabis trade group]
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