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Oregons Marijuana Laws marijuana facilities can locate, and imposed new testing, labeling, inspection and reporting requirements. With the Legislature’s more robust statutory scheme came more extensive administrative rules from the OHA. Those rules, found primarily in Oregon Administrative Rule 333-008, cover many of the gaps left by the Legislature,including setting out a detailed registration system and requirements for testing, reporting, background checks, security, and advertising, among other things. Recreational Marijuana In November 2014, Oregon voters approved Ballot Measure 91, which decriminalized the personal growing and use of certain amounts of recreational marijuana by persons 21 years of age or older. The OLCC is the agency charged with licensing and regulating the growing, processing,and sale of recreational marijuana. In particular, the OLCC has been tasked with administering a license program for producers, processors, wholesalers and retailers, and under that program, a person may hold more than one type of license. Since the voters approved Measure 91, the Legislature has made notable changes to its structure, primarily increasing accountability and safety requirements. For example, the Legislatureadded testing, labeling, inspection and reporting requirements for licensees, required handlers permits for those working with marijuana, and charged the OLCC with licensing OHA-accredited laboratories to conduct the required testing. The Legislature also expanded the OLCC’s rulemaking authority, tasking the agency with, among other things, developing and maintaininga seed-to-sale tracking system and adopting restrictions on the size of recreational marijuana grows. The Legislature also tasked the OLCC with certifying public and private marijuana researchers.As noted above, the Legislature has also tasked the OLCC with creating a system for transitioning medical marijuana registrants to OLCC recreational licensing, with the possibility for recreational licensees toregister with the OLCC to engage in activities related to medical marijuana. The OLCC has adopted temporary rulesthat begin to implement those legislative changes and to fill some of the gaps left by the Legislature. For example, the OLCC has imposed extensive security requirements for alarm systems, video surveillance, and a restriction on public access to certain facilities or areas within facilities. The OLCC has also imposed health and safety requirements, including sanitary requirements and restrictions on how marijuana is processed. In addition, the OLCC has addressed a number of other issues including testing, packaging, labeling, advertising, waste, and implementing a seed to sale tracking system. At the time this guide was published, the OLCC was in the process of adopting permanent rules. State Taxation of Recreational Marijuana Early sales of recreational marijuana from medical marijuana dispensaries aretaxed at a rate of 25 percent. When sales from OLCC-licensed retailersbegin later in 2016, the sale of marijuana items will be subject to a 17 percent state tax, to be collected by those retailers. However, in Local Government Regulation of Marijuana in Oregon League of Oregon Cities | 7 May 2016 (Third Edition)