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Nectar Receives 2019 BBB Spark Award. We Thank Your for This Amazing Accomplishment!

The Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific is proud to announce Nectar Cannabis and Superior NW Home Inspections as Oregon’s 2019 Spark Award for Ethics winners! The BBB Spark Award honors organizations that demonstrate exceptional commitment to building trust and integrity with their customers, fellow business owners, and communities.

Nectar Cannabis Wins Better Business Bureau 2019 Torch Award
Nectar owner and CEO Jeremy Pratt receives the Better Business Bureau’s 2019 Oregon Torch Award for Ethics from Portland Marketplace Manager Danielle Kane on Monday at Nectar headquarters in Portland. Photo credit: Andrew Ninen

Nectar, which has 17 locations in the state, was one of 10 finalists up for the BBB’s highest honor, which is voted on by a panel of judges from outside the state.

The BBB Spark Award is the most prestigious award presented to exceptional new businesses for their dedication to integrity and ethical business practices. Recipients generate a high level of trust among employees, customers, and their community, and most importantly embody BBB’s mission of advancing marketplace trust.

“It’s terrific (that a dispensary won this award), it’s exciting.” BBB Vice President of Marketing David Quinlan said. “This is the most prestigious award we can give a business. It speaks volumes about Nectar.”

Nectar became one of the first companies in Oregon approved for recreational cannabis sales, before expanding to 17 dispensary locations across the state. In an emerging industry flooded with companies looking to make quick profits, Nectar stands out at the head of the pack. It is one of the largest, fastest-growing vertically integrated companies in Oregon. Nectar is always growing and always looking for the next opportunity to spread the best industry practices and standards. They are a proudly BBB Accredited Business with an A+ rating, and striving to set the standard of professionalism within the cannabis industry.

“We feel really honored that the Better Business Bureau gave us their Spark Award for New Business of the Year in Oregon,” said Nectar owner and CEO Jeremy Pratt. “This is an amazing recognition of all the hard work that our employees put in every day.”

This year, an overwhelming number of businesses and charities were nominated for the Torch Award for Ethics. Each applicant goes through a meticulous application process that is then reviewed by independent, voluntary panels of judges comprised of community leaders.

“That Nectar is being honored this early in the game really says a lot about your business,” BBB Portland Marketplace Manager Danielle Kane said.

 

Significance of The BBB Spark Award 

We are truly honored to be the recipient of this years BBB Spark Award, and we would like to take the time to thank you, our valued customer and community members. Obtaining the BBB Spark Award could not have been achieved without your constant support of our business, and so this BBB Spark Award is your accomplishment as much as it is ours. For that we truly thank you! 

The Nectar BBB Spark Award



2019 Oregon Business Of The Year:
Elite Relocation Services
&
Axiom Eco-Pest Control
2019 Oregon Charity of The Year:
Children’s Cancer Association
Visit www.trust-bbb.org/torch-awards to learn more about the awards.

For more than 100 years, the Better Business Bureau has been helping people find businesses, brands, and charities they can trust. In 2017, people turned to BBB more than 160 million times for BBB Business Profiles on more than 5.2 million businesses and Charity Reports on 11,000 charities, all available for free at bbb.org. There are local, independent BBBs across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including BBB Northwest & Pacific, which serves more than 15 million consumers in Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Hawaii, and Western Wyoming.
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Exporting Cannabis: Oregon moves 1 step closer With an Awesome New Bill

The great state of Oregon moved one step closer to exporting cannabis to other states on Tuesday.

The Oregon House passed a measure that would allow importing and exporting cannabis to other legal states, and Governor Kate Brown is expected to sign the bill when it gets to her desk.

“This is a very strong statement by the Oregon legislature, and one that will reverberate across the country,” Senator Floyd Prozanski said in a statement. “The future of this industry is that cannabis will primarily be grown where it grows best, and most efficiently, and most sustainably. That’s what functioning legal markets do.”

The legislation, which passed the Senate last month, would permit the governor to enter into agreements with other states in order to engage in importing and exporting cannabis. The federal government is going to have to reform its policies to allow such activity, but we can keep our fingers crossed and hope that one day we will see Oregon exporting cannabis.Exporting cannabis would be good for the market!

Only states that have legal marijuana and border Oregon would be eligible for exporting cannabis.

But being able to ship cannabis to California, Washington and Nevada would be a great thing for Oregon.

“This is a major paradigm shift for sure,” Casey Houlihan, Executive Director of the Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association (ORCA), said in a statement. “When we started the conversation around cannabis exports four years ago, this was not on the radar of most legislators.  But it’s really smart public policy — it’s important to our members, important for our state, and important for the future of the entire cannabis industry. Passing this bill at this critical moment is a testament to the massive value for the industry in building strong relationships with legislators and working to educate our lawmakers in Salem.”

Cannabis farmers across the state celebrated the news Tuesday.

“This is great news,” said AVO CEO Jeremy Pratt. “We grow the highest quality cannabis in the world in Oregon, so it only makes sense to ship it to other states that are in need of this wonderful flower.”

AVO, one of the largest producers in the state with five farms located in Southern Oregon, is exclusively sold at Nectar Cannabis’ 17 Oregon locations.

“The Emerald Region, from Oregon through Northern California, is one of the best and most important cannabis-producing regions in the world,” said Adam J. Smith, Founder and Executive Director of the Craft Cannabis Alliance, who also supported the bill. “In fact, this region has produced the majority of the nation’s domestic cannabis for generations.  As we move inexorably towards regulated markets, this bill brings us one step closer to sharing Oregon’s bounty, legally, with consumers everywhere.”

Representative Rob Nosse was so excited that he even brought a cannabis plant with him onto the floor for today’s vote.

-Dan Watson, Nectar Insider