The state’s Behavioral Health Resource Network faces a multimillion-dollar shortfall.
By Khushboo Rathore
Oregon Journalism Project
Since 2022, the state’s cannabis taxes have paid for free behavioral health and addiction treatment for more than 35,000 Oregonians all across the state, a first-of-its-kind program.
But plummeting pot prices have resulted in a significant decline in marijuana tax revenues since 2021, slashing funding for the Behavioral Health Resource Network and its clients by 38%.
The Oregon Health…