New Docs Show Oregon Dem’s Support for Shady Cannabis Grant

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It’s not often that a member of Congress faces backlash for a drug deal gone bad.

In this case, the alleged deal doesn’t involve illicit substances changing hands. Rather, it concerns an alleged exchange of money and sway between now-Rep. Val Hoyle (D-OR) and the cofounders of a cannabis company called La Mota, one of the largest dispensary chains in Oregon.

Read more at The Daily Beast.