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Previously this month, the Oregon Department of Human Solutions turned down a charitable contribution from a cannabis industry group. Founded by Lindsey Jacobsen, the group Women Leaders in Cannabis had actually planned to contribute 20 Thanksgiving Day dishes to needy households in Eugene and had actually asked the department for help distributing the donations.
According to Oregon Live, the contribution was initially invited by the department but was later rejected.
“It was related to the fact that it was a marijuana-related business and the discomfort by the DHS workplace that it would offer the appearance of some sort of recommendation,” described Gene Evans, a department spokesperson.
Evans went on to say that because the department deals with many families experiencing drug abuse, they would be simply as likely to reject donations from the alcohol market as they would from the marijuana industry.
In spite of the rejection, Jacobsen’s...
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