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The legislation was sent back to the Rules Committee, making its future less certain. House Speaker Tina Kotek believes she has a workable compromise that will appease the Coalition for a Healthy Oregon while still demanding that CCOs open up their board meetings to the public.

New regulations and procedures in cannabis licensing have slowed patient access to medical marijuana. Meanwhile, profits are prompting medical growers to switch to recreational sales.

As regulators allege that Zoom Health Plan’s financial statements claimed capital not actually on the books, officials with the company bemoan the uncertainty of the political environment, saying Trump and Congress prompted them to leave the insurance business.