PORTLAND, Ore. – Customers in Oregon will now have the privilege of ordering pot and having it delivered to their homes from licensed retailers.
This is another first in the recreational marijuana industry.
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission had granted delivery permits to 117 retailers across Oregon, including 13 in Portland, last year but postponed their permission until last month.
“We needed to make an adaptation to the cannabis tracking system to provide a document that would actually allow for the delivery of recreational marijuana to homes,” said OLCC spokesman Mark Pettinger.
Here are some of the OLCC rules regulating marijuana home delivery. Cannabis retailers can only deliver within the city they’re licensed to operate in. The marijuana must be transported in a locked box and secured to the delivery vehicle, which can carry no more than $3,000 worth of product at a time. Retailers can’t deliver product to places like motels, campgrounds or dorms, just residential homes.
According to Spencer Krutzler, manager of La Cannaisseur in Linnton, this project is very interesting and they expect their customer’s to react positively. La Cannaisseur is one of the first retailers licensed for delivery in Portland.
Krutzler said that La Cannaisseur has only taken a few mobile orders since beginning their delivery service in February. However, things are looking up and word is spreading quickly.
“There are people who need it and are not able to get around quite as well as I am,” said customer James Earl. “It is a very useful thing for them to have access to.”
Customers must sign for deliveries, which can only be made between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. The OLCC requires marijuana delivery customers to be at least 21 years or old.
Krutzler added the process will soon become ordinary.
“This is like, you’re going to call the pizza guy, then you’re going to call us,” said Krutzler. “We’re going to have a good time.”
