The Green American Dream Oregon's cannabis industry has seen lots of changes. Local entrepreneurs offer advice, from those who've seen the industry change from medical to recreational If it hasn't been the giant green elephant in the room over the last several decades, let's let our second attempt at the roaring '20s be the catalyst to bury the hatchet and finally digest the fact that cannabis is shaping the world around us. Take a journey from Bend to Redmond in the late summer and you can't miss the gorgeous and almost unbelievable sight of massive, green, lush fields of hemp in abundant supply—and that's not to mention the indoor grows that supply the stuff that offers psychotropic effects.