Medford, OR Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)
Key Facts
- Outdoor operations
- Prohibited entirely
- High-heat extraction zones
- I-G and I-H only
- Product display to public
- Not allowed
- Lighting standard
- Full cutoff (IES standard)
- Governing section
- Medford Code 10.839
Summary
Medford Code Section 10.839 confines marijuana-related businesses to fully enclosed structures with no outdoor operations, bars visible product displays and light trespass, and restricts high-heat extraction processing to the I-G and I-H industrial zones.
10.839 Marijuana-Related Businesses. (1) General Provisions. The following provisions apply to any marijuana-related business. (a) All marijuana-related businesses will conduct operations inside secure, enclosed structures. No production, processing, storage, or sales may be conducted out of doors. (b) No marijuana-related business shall cause or allow an offensive odor of marijuana items to emanate from a structure or property. (c) No marijuana-related business shall permit trespass or glare from security or other lighting beyond its property line... (e) Marijuana items may not be displayed in a manner that is externally visible to the public. (2) Processing. (a) Processors using high-heat extraction methods are allowed only in the I-G and I-H zoning districts.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 2026-32, passed May 6, 2026).
Full Breakdown
839, Marijuana-Related Businesses, applies general provisions to every marijuana business in Medford: all operations, including production, processing, storage, and sales, must occur inside secure, enclosed structures, with no outdoor activity permitted at all. No business may cause an offensive marijuana odor to emanate from its structure or property, and outdoor security or other lighting cannot trespass or glare beyond the property line, with lighting required to be "full cutoff" under Illuminating Engineering Society of North America standards. 561 (regular and electrified fences) apply to these sites.
Processors using high-heat extraction methods are confined to the General Industrial (I-G) and Heavy Industrial (I-H) zoning districts under subsection (2). Every marijuana business must hold a state license and comply with all applicable state law, and where the City's rule is stricter than state law or regulation, the City's greater restriction controls under subsection (3). 184 as well as Oregon Health Authority approval.
Violations & Fines
A marijuana business that conducts any production, processing, storage, or sales outdoors, allows offensive odor to escape the property, displays product visibly to the public, or runs high-heat extraction outside the I-G or I-H zones is out of compliance with Section 10.839 and can face business license revocation proceedings, a Medford Code violation penalty, or injunctive relief sought in Jackson County Circuit Court, the same enforcement path the Code specifies for the retail limited-marijuana-product ban.
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