The Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) has created a section on its website to help cities and counties navigate and understand the implications of marijuana home delivery to adult users residing in a different jurisdiction than where a licensed cannabis retailer is located.
Local governments may now allow the home delivery of adult-use marijuana within its boundaries from a retailer located in an adjacent jurisdiction. This is an opt-in program that requires action by a local government body in order for this type of home delivery activity to take place.
Oregon state law already allows a licensed cannabis retailer to make deliveries to Oregon Medical Marijuana Program patients who live outside the boundaries of the city or county where the retailer is located.
The passage of 2021 HB 2519 provides local governments with this new option for adult-use cannabis deliveries. However, because this is an opt-in choice, a jurisdiction that does not want to allow home deliveries from other jurisdictions does not need to take any action.
As an example, before the passage of HB 2519 a city-based marijuana retailer could not deliver to an un-incorporated area in an adjacent county even if the delivery address was just outside the city limits. That could now take place if the county enacted an ordinance allowing it.
To “opt-in,” a local government needs to send to the OLCC the delivery opt-in form. The OLCC will follow up with the person who submits the form to obtain a copy of the local ordinance allowing for out-of-jurisdiction home delivery. After the OLCC receives those documents the OLCC will update the home delivery map to make clear a local government’s status as allowing “adjacent jurisdiction” delivery.
Please contact the OLCC at marijuana@oregon.gov any questions.
Contributed by: Amanda Borup | Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission