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Cannabis Boom Creates Fears of Increasing Illicit Trade By Erik Neumann | May 27, 2021 GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — On a sunny spring day in Southern Oregon’s Illinois Valley, Mason Walker is showing off rows of neatly planted marijuana. “We have a permanent trellising system that’s installed almost in a vineyard style,” Walker, co-owner of East Fork Cultivars, told Jefferson Public Radio. “We put labels up at the end of the rows so people know what t...

JOSEPHINE, CO., Ore.– According to Josephine County sheriff Dave Daniel, police executed a search warrant on a suspected illegal grow operation Wednesday. It happened on the 8000 block of Monument Drive. There, Sheriff Daniel said police found 140 greenhouses, and somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 plants. Sheriff Daniel said the investigation was done in partnership with local drug enforcement groups in the valley and Oregon State Police. He also said the Oregon Liquor Control Commission...

Cannabis boom creates fears of increasing illicit trade in Southern Oregon Erik Neumann GRANTS PASS — On a sunny spring day in Southern Oregons Illinois Valley, Mason Walker is showing off rows of neatly planted marijuana. "We have a permanent trellising system thats installed almost in a vineyard style," Walker, co-owner of East Fork Cultivars, told Jefferson Public Radio. "We put labels up at the end of the rows so people know what theyre looking at, just like you might walk through the pin...

View Comments GRANTS PASS — On a sunny spring day in Southern Oregons Illinois Valley, Mason Walker is showing off rows of neatly planted marijuana. "We have a permanent trellising system thats installed almost in a vineyard style," Walker, co-owner of East Fork Cultivars, told Jefferson Public Radio. "We put labels up at the end of the rows so people know what theyre looking at, just like you might walk through the pinot noir section of a vineyard." On their 33-acre farm, Walker and a team g...

In Southern Oregon, cannabis farming is booming. But while hemp and marijuana can both be legally grown in the state, much of this year’s expansion is on the illegal market.

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. —The clock is ticking on Josephine County to figure out a long-term funding solution or face large budget cuts to the Sheriff’s Office. Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel says the problem comes from low tax rates, increased costs, and revenue cuts. Sheriff Daniel says this could mean his department could be forced to cut up to 10 positions. While he isn’t panicking just yet, he says next year, could be a different story. “It’s going to be a little tight, we ar...

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SAN DIEGO —  Laid-off hotel workers in San Diego got a boost Tuesday when the City Council extended for one year an ordinance that requires them to be re-hired based on seniority. The law, which had been scheduled to expire Monday, aims to prevent the hotel industry from using mass layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to replace higher-paid veteran workers with cheaper employees. “Workers in the hotel and hospitality industry have been hit very hard by this pandemic, and...

MEDFORD, Ore. – Jackson Co. Jail is reporting its first COVID case inside the facility. Josephine Co. Jail had its first cases last fall and is in the midst of a larger outbreak right now. Now, both jails are trying to curb the spread of the highly contagious disease. After almost a year in a global pandemic, one Jackson Co. Jail inmate tested positive for COVID-19 last Wednesday. It’s the first reported case in the jail. “I am surprised sometimes that it’s taken this long to get a posi...

SALEM — Law enforcement agencies could assist Oregon farm regulators with inspections of hemp crops under a bill that’s intended to thwart illegal marijuana operations. Sheriffs from Jackson and Josephine counties in Southern Oregon are urging lawmakers to pass House Bill 2296, which would allow their agencies to cooperate with the Oregon Department of Agriculture on hemp inspections. “Our illegal marijuana enforcement team has found that the ODA licensing has created a shield fo...