Willamette Week reports
The Oregon Court of Appeals has suspended the state’s controversial rules until a judicial review is completed.
The state’s cannabis testing requirements for the fungus aspergillus have been suspended after the Oregon Court of Appeals granted a motion today to stay the rules pending a legal challenge filed by the cannabis industry.
The Aug. 25 ruling comes just one month after the state’s largest marijuana trade association, the Cannabis Industry Alliance of Oregon, alongside three small weed companies, asked the Court of Appeals to halt the ban on aspergillus, arguing it could destroy cannabis businesses.
“The court has considered the irreparable harm to petitioners in the absence of a stay, petitioners’ likelihood of success on the merits, and the risk of harm to the public is a stay is granted and, in light of those considerations, concludes that a stay of enforcement of the Aspergillus Testing Rule is appropriate in this case,” the Court of Appeals wrote in its decision.
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