Portland prepares for 3 dozen marijuana businesses
Although the scope of Portland’s retail marijuana market won’t be completely known until after a referendum vote next week, pot businesses got a positive hit last week when the City Council nixed its matrix system for awarding licenses.
The decision paved the way for all qualified businesses that applied prior to Aug. 31 to be licensed.
The city received 43 applications, although its attorneys weeded out applicants who had disqualifying factors, including criminal histories or prolonged histories of delinquent tax payments.
Councilors approved an amendment to forgive two years of late payments that otherwise would have been disqualifying factors: if the applicant was late during the coronavirus pandemic and has now caught up, or if at any point in the past five years they were late once as a result of human error.
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