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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Govt Denies Hungry Families Thanksgiving Food Because a Pro-Cannabis Group Donated It 🌿Govt Denies Hungry Families Thanksgiving Food Because a Pro-Cannabis Group Donated It
By John Vibes
In the state of Oregon, where marijuana was recently legalized, a government agency has rejected food donations for the holidays because the donations came on the behalf of a marijuana-related organization. A group called Women Leaders in Cannabis was able to raise considerable food donations for people in need and initially their contributions were accepted by Oregon’s Department of Human Services.
However, the agency later changed their mind and decided that they did not want to accept the donations because they did not want to be associated with a substance that is now legal in the state.
Lindsey Jacobsen, the executive director of Women Leaders in Cannabis in Eugene, told KATU that the agency actually gave them a different excuse at first.
“The first place I reached out to was the Department of Human Services because when I was in high school I was in Future Business...
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