Oregon cannabis rules for visitors

Adults 21 and older may carry up to 2 ounces of usable marijuana (dried flower and leaves) in a public place and may possess up to 8 ounces in all, along with up to 16 ounces of solid cannabinoid products or concentrates, 72 ounces of liquid products and 1 ounce of cannabinoid extracts, which must come from a licensed retailer (ORS 475C.337, 475C.305). Stores work to a separate daily cap per customer: 2 ounces of usable marijuana, 16 ounces of solid products, 72 fluid ounces of liquids, 10 grams of extracts or concentrates, 10 grams of inhalable cannabinoid products, 4 immature plants and 10 seeds (OAR 845-025-2800). Oregon sets the same limits for residents and visitors.

Stores accept a passport from any country, a U.S. state driver license or ID card, a U.S. military or tribal ID, or a NEXUS or SENTRI card; a driver license from another country is not on the state's list (ORS 475C.217). Oregon has no residency rule. State law bans use in any public place, meaning anywhere the general public has access, such as streets, parks, state parks and hotel lobbies, and OLCC treats bars and other liquor-licensed businesses as public; use there is a Class B violation with a maximum fine of $1,000 (ORS 475C.009, 475C.377, 153.018). There are no lounges, delivery goes to homes but never to hotels, and carrying cannabis out of Oregon by car or in airline luggage breaks the state's export ban as well as federal law (ORS 475C.229).

The regulator is the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission. Check any shop's license on the state license lookup before you buy.

Adults 21 and older may possess up to 2 ounces of usable marijuana in a public place and up to 8 ounces in total, which in practice is the cap for what you keep at home (ORS 475C.337). Usable marijuana means the dried leaves and flowers (ORS 475C.009). Other forms have their own caps: 16 ounces of cannabinoid products in solid form or cannabinoid concentrates, 72 ounces of products in liquid form, and 1 ounce of cannabinoid extracts, which must have been bought from a licensed retailer. An extract from any other source is unlawful to possess at all.

Stores work to a daily cap set by rule. A retailer may not knowingly sell one person more than 2 ounces of usable marijuana, 16 ounces of a solid cannabinoid product, 72 fluid ounces of a liquid product, 10 grams of cannabinoid extracts or concentrates, 10 grams of cannabinoid products meant for inhalation such as infused pre-rolls, 4 immature plants and 10 seeds at one time or within one day (OAR 845-025-2800). The flower cap doubled from 1 ounce to 2 ounces on January 1, 2022, OLCC's March 2022 bulletin says.

Product strength is capped as well. An adult-use edible may contain up to 100 milligrams of THC per package and 10 milligrams per serving, the limit since April 1, 2022, and solid edibles above 55 milligrams must be scored into servings (OLCC IB2022-01, OAR 845-026-0210). Some official pages lag behind: OLCC's consumer FAQ still describes 50 milligram edible packages and, in one answer, 1 ounce on your person, while its own possession list and the statute say 2 ounces. This guide follows the statute and the current rules.

Adults may share without a sale. One adult may give another, at a time and with nothing paid or traded, up to 1 ounce of usable marijuana, 16 ounces of solid products, 72 ounces of liquid products or 16 ounces of concentrates (ORS 475C.305). Neither the statute nor OLCC's sales rule sets different numbers for visitors, so a tourist buys and carries under the same limits as a resident. Hemp products that exceed THC levels set by OLCC count as adult use cannabis items under the same law (ORS 475C.009).

You must be 21 or older, and staff must check identification before every sale (ORS 475C.217, OAR 845-025-2820). The statute lists what counts: a passport issued by the United States or a foreign government, a driver license from Oregon or another U.S. state, an Oregon ID card, a U.S. military ID, an ID card from a federally recognized tribe, any other state or territory ID with photo, name, birth date and physical description, or proof of enrollment in the SENTRI or NEXUS trusted traveler programs. OLCC's rule adds that the ID must be valid, unexpired and carry a photo.

That list matters for international visitors. A foreign passport is expressly accepted, but a driver license issued outside the United States is not on the list, so for most visitors from Canada, Mexico or overseas the accepted options are a passport or proof of NEXUS or SENTRI enrollment (ORS 475C.217). Oregon has no residency requirement for adult-use buyers. The one age exception is medical: Oregon Medical Marijuana Program cardholders aged 18 to 20 may buy at retailers registered for medical sales (OAR 845-025-2800, 845-025-2900).

Privacy rules limit what a store may collect. A customer cannot be required to produce any identification beyond the listed documents, plus an OMMP card for patients, and a retailer may not record and keep information that identifies a customer except as needed for a delivery, or with the customer's consent for marketing; it may never pass that information to anyone else (ORS 475C.221). Where OLCC requires an age verification scanner, the scanned data may not be kept after the age check (ORS 475C.109).

Underage attempts carry penalties. A person under 21 who possesses, tries to buy or buys cannabis commits a Class B violation, raised to a Class A violation when the person has it while driving, and the court must order the person's driving privileges suspended (ORS 475C.317). Producing identification that falsely shows your age is a Class A misdemeanor (ORS 475C.321). Every store posts a sign reading 'No Minors Permitted Anywhere on the Premises' (OAR 845-025-2840).

Private property that the general public cannot access, with the owner's permission; state law bans use in public places, while its out-of-public-view rule covers home grows and homemade products rather than use. Using marijuana items in a public place is a Class B violation (ORS 475C.377), which carries a maximum fine of $1,000 and a presumptive fine of $265 (ORS 153.018, 153.019). The law defines a public place as any place the general public can reach, naming hallways, lobbies and other parts of apartment houses and hotels that are not residential rooms, along with highways, streets, schools, places of amusement, parks, playgrounds and areas used for public passenger transportation (ORS 475C.009).

Bars and restaurants are off limits. OLCC treats any business holding a state liquor license as public, patios and smoking decks included, and warns that allowing cannabis use can put that license at risk. The Indoor Clean Air Act separately bans smoking, vaping or aerosolizing any inhalant, a term that covers cannabinoids, in enclosed places open to the public and in workplaces, and within 10 feet of their entrances, exits, windows that open and air intakes (ORS 433.835, 433.845). Edibles avoid the smoke rule but not the public-place ban.

Parks are covered at every level. Portland's city code bars smoking, vaping or using an inhalant delivery system in any city park, while letting an adult carry up to 1 ounce of usable cannabis there in a closed container (Portland City Code 20.12.040, 20.12.110). Bend Park and Recreation District rules, updated July 1, 2025 and in effect since August 1, 2025, ban any smoking instrument or vape on district property, and its facility rules ban possessing cannabis in recreation centers. Oregon State Parks says recreational marijuana use is not allowed in state parks because the statute names parks as public places.

Private property remains the reliable choice, but the owner sets the terms. OLCC says Oregon's cannabis law does not change landlord and tenant law, so a lease or a property owner's rules may still forbid smoking or growing. A person present and in control of private property who knowingly lets someone under 21 consume cannabis there commits a Class A misdemeanor, and the rule reaches a landlord only in the unit where the landlord lives (ORS 475C.329). A backyard is private property; the sidewalk in front of it is a public place.

Only if the hotel allows it. Oregon's public-place definition covers hotel hallways, lobbies and other parts of a hotel not constituting rooms designed for actual residence, which appears to leave the guest room outside it, although neither the statute nor OLCC guidance names guest rooms (ORS 475C.009). Smoking and vaping face a second rule: under the Indoor Clean Air Act an owner may designate no more than 25 percent of sleeping rooms as rooms where smoking, aerosolizing or vaporizing inhalants is permitted, and cannabinoids count as inhalants (ORS 433.835, 433.850). The rest fall under the act's ban.

A hotel need not designate any smoking rooms, and its own house rules on cannabis apply in every room, edibles included. Breaking the Indoor Clean Air Act can draw an Oregon Health Authority civil penalty of up to $500 per day for each violation (ORS 433.855). Lodging on federal land is a separate case: Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood operates under a Forest Service special use permit on national forest land, and lodges and campgrounds inside Crater Lake National Park are under federal rules that ban possession outright.

Common areas are public places. Lobbies, hallways, pools and hotel restaurants count, so using cannabis there in any form is a Class B violation (ORS 475C.377), and OLCC treats a hotel bar with a liquor license as public, patio included. Vacation rentals differ: a private residence is not a place of employment under the Indoor Clean Air Act unless it is used for child care or adult day care (ORS 433.835), so the owner's rules and the listing terms decide.

Delivery to a hotel room is not an option. OLCC's delivery rule allows retailers to deliver only to a residence, defined as a dwelling such as a house or apartment, and it expressly excludes dormitories, hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts and similar commercial businesses (OAR 845-025-2880). A store may also hand over an order placed ahead to a customer within 150 feet of its premises, such as in its parking lot or at the front entrance (OAR 845-025-2885).

No. Oregon has no license for on-site cannabis use, and OLCC rules bar every licensee from permitting on-site consumption of a marijuana item, alcohol or any other intoxicant by anyone. The only exception covers an employee with a medical card who uses a product that is not smoked or vaped, alone in a closed room (OAR 845-025-1230). Retailers must post a 'No On-Site Consumption' sign and a sign at the exit reading 'Marijuana or Marijuana Infused Products May Not Be Consumed in Public' (OAR 845-025-2840).

The Indoor Clean Air Act closes the other doors. It bans smoking, aerosolizing or vaporizing inhalants, defined to include cannabinoids, in any enclosed area open to the public and in any place of employment (ORS 433.835, 433.845). Its exceptions include tobacco in certified smoke shops, cigars in a narrow class of cigar bars that ban other inhalants, ceremonial tobacco and designated hotel rooms (ORS 433.850), and none of them allows a cannabis cafe or social club.

Neither the 2025 nor the 2026 legislative session changed this. The Legislature's tables of amended statutes show 2025 changes to licensing, trade samples, school buffers and the medical program, and 2026 changes limited to the medical program and farm stores, with no consumption license. OLCC's rules effective January 1, 2026 widened trade show privileges for licensees, but OLCC says consumption of marijuana, hemp and alcohol is still prohibited at approved trade shows and promotional events (CE2025-07).

An event or club advertised as smoke-friendly therefore operates outside any state license. If a business open to the public lets customers smoke indoors, the Indoor Clean Air Act applies, and if the event is outdoors and open to the public, the public-place ban applies, with a Class B violation for each user (ORS 475C.377). Private places that the general public cannot access, such as residences and hotel rooms where the hotel permits it, remain where Oregon law leaves use open.

No driver or passenger may consume cannabis in a motor vehicle on a highway, except passengers of a common carrier used primarily to carry passengers for hire, whom the section exempts. The Vehicle Code defines consuming to include inhaling smoke from a marijuana item, and the offense is a Class B traffic violation (ORS 811.482) with a maximum fine of $1,000 (ORS 153.018). The ban applies in a rental car like any other. The section exempts passengers in a vehicle run by a common carrier that mainly carries passengers for hire; the cannabis law's public-place ban separately covers areas used in connection with public passenger transportation (ORS 475C.009), and no statute, rule or OLCC guidance we found says whether a taxi or rideshare cabin is such an area.

Carrying cannabis is treated differently from using it. The only cannabis provision in the Vehicle Code's rules of the road is the ban on use, and we found no cannabis container rule there to match the alcohol open-container law. Possession limits still apply on the road, and a highway is a public place, so the 2 ounce public limit on usable marijuana governs what you carry (ORS 475C.337). A driver under 21 caught possessing cannabis commits a Class A violation rather than the usual Class B (ORS 475C.317).

Driving under the influence of cannabis is DUII. The offense covers driving while under the influence of any intoxicant, it is a Class A misdemeanor, and a court must impose a minimum fine of $1,000 for a first conviction, $1,500 for a second and $2,000 for a third or later one if no prison term is imposed (ORS 813.010). The statute sets a 0.08 percent standard for alcohol but no THC concentration, so a cannabis case rests on proof of impairment.

Testing rules reach cannabis. A driver arrested for DUII is deemed to consent to a urine test for intoxicants other than alcohol if a breath test shows less than 0.08 percent or the driver was in a crash causing injury or property damage (ORS 813.131), and police may test blood or urine for cannabis with consent or in the other cases ORS 813.140 lists. DUII becomes a Class C felony after three prior convictions within 10 years (ORS 813.010). Stores may not sell to anyone visibly intoxicated (ORS 475C.329).

Not legally. State law bars importing marijuana items into Oregon or exporting them, and it defines export to include placing a marijuana item in any transportation for hire, such as luggage, mail or parcel delivery, even if it is intercepted before it leaves the state (ORS 475C.229). A violation is a Class B violation, a Class A misdemeanor if the amount tops personal possession limits, and a Class C felony above 16 times those limits. OLCC's FAQ says taking marijuana across state lines is a federal offense, even to Washington or California.

At Portland International Airport, the Port of Portland says it enforces state and federal law. TSA may call Port Police on a report of marijuana at a checkpoint, and Port Police then decide whether the traveler's possession is legal. PDX Rules prohibit possessing marijuana past the security checkpoints for travelers bound for points outside Oregon. The one exception: Port Police will not seize it from a traveler with a valid Oregon medical card carrying no more than the lawful amount. TSA refers illegal substances found in screening to law enforcement, and federal simple possession carries up to a year in prison and a minimum $1,000 fine (21 U.S.C. 844).

Washington is legal next door but the bridge is a border. The I-5 Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River links Portland with Vancouver, Washington. Washington lets adults 21 and older possess up to 1 ounce of useable cannabis, 16 ounces of solid infused product, 72 ounces of liquid infused product (or 200 milligrams of THC in liquid products sold in units of 4 milligrams or less) and 7 grams of concentrate under its own law (RCW 69.50.4013, 69.50.360), yet carrying Oregon purchases across the river is still an export under ORS 475C.229 and a federal matter. California's Department of Cannabis Control likewise says you cannot take cannabis across state lines.

Idaho is far stricter. Possessing 3 ounces or less of marijuana, including extracts, is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail, a $1,000 fine or both, with a minimum $300 fine for anyone 18 or older; more than 3 ounces is a felony carrying up to 5 years and a $10,000 fine (Idaho Code 37-2732). Retail stores sit right at that line: OLCC's license data shows 12 active retail licenses that geocode inside Ontario, on the Idaho line.

Not at Crater Lake. The park is an area of exclusive federal jurisdiction, and the Park Service says possession or use of any amount of marijuana, even with a valid state medical card, is prohibited in the park, its facilities, concessions and campgrounds, punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 for an individual, up to six months in jail, or both. Park Service rules bar possessing a controlled substance unless it came from a practitioner or is otherwise allowed by federal or state law (36 CFR 2.35), and federal law still makes possessing adult-use marijuana a crime (21 U.S.C. 844), which also applies at Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.

National forests are covered too. Since December 26, 2024, Forest Service rules have prohibited knowingly or intentionally possessing any controlled substance in violation of federal law on National Forest System land, punishable by up to six months in jail, a fine or both (36 CFR 261.10, 261.1b). Mount Hood National Forest lists Mt. Hood Meadows, Mt. Hood Skibowl and Timberline Lodge and Ski Area among its recreation sites, and Timberline operates under a Forest Service special use permit. The Deschutes National Forest lists Mt. Bachelor, about 21 miles west of Bend.

The 2026 federal rescheduling does not change this. A DEA final rule effective April 28, 2026 placed FDA-approved marijuana drug products and marijuana subject to a state medical license in Schedule III, and it states that any other form of marijuana remains in Schedule I, which is where adult-use purchases fall. DEA's broader rescheduling hearing ran June 29 to July 15, 2026 and was stayed on September 29, 2026, with no final rule issued. Oregon itself bars retailers from delivering to anyone on federal land (ORS 475C.117).

Tribal land follows tribal and federal law. OLCC says Oregon's cannabis law does not address possession or use on the land of federally recognized tribes. At Warm Springs, tribal voters approved a cannabis growing and extraction business in December 2015 with retail sales only off the reservation, and the tribe's announcement of the certified result said the vote does not legalize use or possession on the reservation; the tribal code makes possessing a controlled substance, defined by the federal schedules, and pipes or bongs an offense. Other tribes' codes were not reviewed for this guide, and their rules are set by each tribal government.

Yes, to a home but not to a hotel. A licensed retailer approved by OLCC may deliver on a customer's order within the same city, or the same unincorporated county area, as the store, or into an adjacent city or county that has adopted an ordinance allowing it (ORS 475C.117). OLCC's rule limits delivery to a residence, meaning a dwelling such as a house or apartment, and excludes dormitories, hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts and similar commercial businesses (OAR 845-025-2880). Deliveries may not go to federal land or to a residence on publicly owned land.

The rules are specific. The order must reach the store before 8 p.m. on the day of delivery, and deliveries run only between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. The driver must check that the person at the door is the one who ordered and is 21 or older, collect a signature and refuse anyone visibly intoxicated, and a store may deliver to the same address or person only once a day (OAR 845-025-2880). Daily sales limits match those in the store, and the same taxes apply, OLCC says.

Not every store delivers. On OLCC's license data read October 16, 2026, 627 of the 790 active retail licenses carried a home delivery endorsement. OLCC keeps a Home Delivery Map showing which cities and counties accept deliveries from neighboring jurisdictions, and a city or county that opts in may not tax delivered items (ORS 475C.113). Retailers may not deliver to neighboring states. For a hotel stay, the alternative is ordering ahead and collecting the bag within 150 feet of the store between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. (OAR 845-025-2885).

Yes, if you are 21 or older: a household may grow up to 4 plants at any time (ORS 475C.305). OLCC stresses that the limit is per residence, not per person, so four adults in one home still share 4 plants. A household means a housing unit and any place in or around it where the occupants grow or store cannabis (ORS 475C.009). The same household may hold up to 8 ounces of usable marijuana, 16 ounces of solid cannabinoid products, 72 ounces of liquid products and 16 ounces of concentrates.

Plants and homegrown products must not be visible to normal unaided vision from a public place, and a violation is a Class B violation (ORS 475C.309). Only a licensed processor may turn cannabinoid extracts into products, and doing it at home is a Class A misdemeanor (ORS 475C.313); stores may not sell butane or similar materials used to make extracts (OAR 845-025-2800). Adults may buy up to 4 immature plants and 10 seeds a day from a retailer to start a grow.

Going over the plant limit triggers the possession statute. Under the possession statute, more than 4 plants but no more than 8 is a Class B violation, more than 8 and up to 16 is a Class B misdemeanor, larger counts are a Class A misdemeanor, and more than 64 or 128 plants are Class C and Class B felonies (ORS 475C.337); the separate manufacture statute makes growing more than 4 but no more than 8 plants at a household a Class B misdemeanor and growing more than 12 plants a Class C felony (ORS 475C.349). The count follows the housing unit, and OLCC notes that cannabis law leaves landlord and tenant rules in place, so a rental owner may still forbid growing.

Registered medical patients have a separate track. An Oregon Medical Marijuana Program cardholder and caregiver may jointly possess up to 6 mature and 12 immature plants, grown at a registered grow site (ORS 475C.806), and the Oregon Health Authority's FAQ explains how zoning changes the totals at a single address. The program accepts only Oregon residents, so a visiting patient cannot use it.

Oregon charges a 17 percent state tax on the retail price of every marijuana item, from flower and immature plants to edibles, concentrates, extracts and topicals (ORS 475C.674). The law calls it a direct tax on the consumer, collected at the register, rounded up to the next whole cent and listed separately on the receipt. Cities and counties may add a local tax of up to 3 percent, but only with voter approval, and a county tax applies only in unincorporated areas (ORS 475C.453).

In the main visitor cities the total is 20 percent. The Department of Revenue's locality table lists 96 cities and counties whose 3 percent tax it collects, among them Portland, Eugene, Salem, Bend, Medford and Ashland. Some places outside the table collect their own local tax, so the figure on the receipt is the one to trust. A retailer may not discount a marijuana item, or give one away, because of the purchase of any other item (ORS 475C.674).

Oregon medical cardholders pay no marijuana tax, an exemption that current law applies to sales made before January 1, 2028. The law exempts sales to an Oregon Medical Marijuana Program registry cardholder, or a caregiver buying for one, who shows a valid card issued under Oregon law (ORS 475C.678). A medical card from another state does not qualify. If a store overcharges the tax, the Department of Revenue says to ask the retailer in writing within 30 days of the purchase, with the receipt, and to contact the department if the store does not refund it.

The Department of Revenue says the revenue covers the cost of administering the tax and OLCC enforcement and, since July 1, 2018, has supported the Illegal Marijuana Market Enforcement Grant Program. Of the first $11.25 million each quarter, adjusted for inflation, 40 percent goes to the State School Fund, 20 percent to the Oregon Health Authority for mental health and addiction services, 15 percent to the State Police, 10 percent to cities, 10 percent to counties and 5 percent to further prevention and treatment. Since January 1, 2021, money above that line funds Measure 110 drug treatment.

No. The Oregon Medical Marijuana Program issues cards only to applicants who submit proof of residency (ORS 475C.783), and the Oregon Health Authority says patients must be Oregon residents. We found no provision honoring another state's card. A visiting patient shops as an adult-use customer: 21 or older, under the standard daily limits, and paying the 17 percent state tax plus any local tax, since the tax exemption requires an Oregon card (ORS 475C.678). The PDX exception for medical travelers also covers only a valid Oregon card.

For Oregon residents the program is broad. A cardholder and caregiver may jointly possess up to 24 ounces of usable marijuana and 6 mature plants (ORS 475C.809, 475C.806). Retailers registered for medical sales may serve cardholders 18 and older, up to 8 ounces of usable marijuana a day and 32 ounces a month per patient (OAR 845-025-2800), and may sell medical-grade products such as edibles with up to 100 milligrams of THC per package and no serving size limit (OLCC IB2022-03). The standard application fee is $200 (OHA).

Oregon was early. Voters approved Measure 67, which allowed medical use of marijuana within limits, on November 3, 1998, by 611,190 votes to 508,263, the Oregon Blue Book records. The 2026 Legislature passed House Bill 4142, now 2026 Oregon Laws chapter 118, which adds the need for hospice, palliative care, comfort care or other symptom management to the list of qualifying conditions, and its section known as Ryan's Law requires organizations and residential facilities designated as caregivers to let cardholder patients use medical marijuana on the premises, adopt written cannabis policies and train direct care staff. Those changes become operative January 1, 2027. On September 1, 2026, the Oregon Health Authority merged the program into a new Medical Cannabis and Psilocybin Section.

The federal change of April 28, 2026 does not open Oregon to outside cards. The DEA rule placed marijuana subject to a state medical license in Schedule III while stating that every other form of marijuana stays in Schedule I. Oregon's residency rule for cards is state law, which the federal rule did not change, so a visitor's home-state card still carries no weight at an Oregon counter, and carrying medical cannabis across a state line remains a federal issue.

Most visitor mistakes are violations, which carry fines but no jail. Using cannabis in a public place is a Class B violation (ORS 475C.377), and so is consuming it in a vehicle on a highway, as a traffic violation (ORS 811.482); the maximum fine for either is $1,000 and the presumptive fine is $265 (ORS 153.018, 153.019). Smoking or vaping in an indoor public place can also draw an Oregon Health Authority civil penalty of up to $500 per day (ORS 433.855), and exporting an amount within personal limits is a Class B violation (ORS 475C.229).

Carrying too much is graded by how far over the limit you are. Up to twice a limit is a Class B violation, so more than 2 and up to 4 ounces of usable marijuana in public draws a fine; more than twice and up to four times is a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to 6 months in jail and a $2,500 fine; beyond that it is a Class A misdemeanor, with up to 364 days and $6,250 (ORS 475C.337, 161.615, 161.635). More than 16 times any limit other than the 2 ounce public limit, more than 8 pounds of usable marijuana in public, or more than a quarter ounce of extract not bought from a licensed retailer is a Class C felony, and more than 32 times a limit other than the public limit is a Class B felony.

Sharing and selling are separate offenses. Delivering cannabis outside the law is a Class A misdemeanor, reduced to a Class B misdemeanor when an adult gives another adult more than 1 ounce but no more than 2 ounces of usable marijuana for free, and raised to a Class C felony for delivery to anyone under 21, with a narrow exception for givers under 24 (ORS 475C.345). A Class C felony carries up to 5 years and a $125,000 fine, and a Class B felony up to 10 years and $250,000 (ORS 161.605, 161.625).

Other common mistakes are criminal. Producing false identification to buy is a Class A misdemeanor (ORS 475C.321), as is knowingly letting someone under 21 consume cannabis on property you control (ORS 475C.329), and DUII is a Class A misdemeanor with a minimum $1,000 fine for a first conviction (ORS 813.010). On federal land the stakes change: possession at Crater Lake can bring up to a $5,000 fine, and federal simple possession carries up to a year in prison and a minimum $1,000 fine (21 U.S.C. 844).

Check the store against OLCC's license data. OLCC publishes its cannabis licenses on the Oregon Open Data Portal, and on October 16, 2026 the dataset, last updated October 5, 2026, listed 790 active recreational retailer licenses, each with license number, trade name, licensee, status, effective and expiration dates, street address and county, plus endorsements for home delivery and medical sales. Our Census geocoder check placed 207 of those licenses inside Portland city limits, 47 in Eugene, 43 in Salem, 36 in Medford, 23 in Bend and 6 in Ashland, and two licenses the geocoder could not match, at 539 SW 3rd Ave in Portland and 2625 Salem Dallas Hwy NW in Salem, sit between street numbers that fall inside those cities, so the likely totals are 208 for Portland and 44 for Salem.

A licensed store follows visible rules. It may not sit in an area zoned only for residential use and, with limited exceptions, may not be within 1,000 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school (ORS 475C.097, 475C.101). It must be enclosed by permanent walls and doors and post signs reading 'No Minors Permitted Anywhere on the Premises', 'No On-Site Consumption' and 'Security Cameras in Use' (OAR 845-025-2840). It checks ID before each sale, sells only from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., hands each customer an OLCC Marijuana Information Card, and sells only items tested as the law requires.

Local rules decide where stores exist. OLCC's September 2026 record of local bans lists 82 cities and 17 counties that prohibit one or more kinds of licensed marijuana business, among them Lake Oswego, West Linn and Wilsonville near Portland. Marion County is on the list too, yet 39 active retail licenses sit inside the Marion County part of Salem, a city that is not on the list. New licenses are frozen for now: OLCC is not accepting new retail applications under House Bill 4121 (2024), and the law now caps new retail licenses at one per 7,500 residents aged 21 and older (ORS 475C.155).

Hemp shops are a different market. A hemp product sold outside an OLCC-licensed store must test at no more than 0.3 percent total THC, stay within OLCC's THC caps and contain no artificially derived cannabinoids such as delta-8-THC, OLCC's hemp FAQ says, and hemp items above the adult-use thresholds count as adult use cannabis items under ORS 475C.009. OLCC adds that only its licensed marijuana retailers may sell marijuana-derived products to adult-use consumers, so a seller missing from the license data is outside the law's protection.