Medical marijuana growers in Oregon flying under radar
Only a handful of medical marijuana growers have applied for Jackson County permits to keep growing on rural residential land — even though growers without permits face fines of up to $10,000 and orders to remove their plants.
Most are flying under the radar, hoping to avoid detection rather than pay the $1,563 permit application fee, the Mail Tribune reported.
Jackson County has received only seven applications from growers hoping to be grandfathered in by qualifying for a pre-existing, non-conforming use permit.
“It isn’t many. It’s a lot less than I had anticipated,” said Jackson County Development Services Director Kelly Madding.
According to state data from April, Jackson County has 2,993 known medical marijuana grow sites, although how many are in rural residential zones is unknown.
Permits became necessary after a state law passed this spring defined medical marijuana growing as a farm use. Farm use — the for-profit raising...
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