Gov. Brown mounts vigorous defense of legal pot in Oregon

August 22, 2017 | Noelle Crombie

Gov. Kate Brown strongly defended Oregon’s marijuana regulations in a letter Tuesday to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and publicly discredited an Oregon State Police analysis that concluded the state remains a top black market source for the drug.

Brown detailed the steps Oregon has taken to tackle illicit trafficking and criticized the analysis, which Sessions cited at length in a letter to the governor last month.

Brown wrote that the report was based on information collected before the state began regulating recreational marijuana and doesn’t reflect the “on the ground reality in Oregon in 2017.”

Gov. Brown mounts vigorous defense of legal pot in Oregon