When they cross the border, 420Ville customers are in another jurisdiction and beyond the reach of the sheriff.Īsh said he’s talked to a drug team supervisor in Idaho, but hasn’t heard what, if anything, they’re doing. “Just because they have marijuana in their vehicles, we can’t stop and ask to search because they haven’t committed a crime until they cross that Idaho border,” Ash said. You can’t take it across state lines,” he said.īaker County Sheriff Travis Ash said they’ve seen an increase in traffic, especially from Idaho, but there’s not much he can do about it. You’ve got to be 21, you can’t smoke on the premises. “They have to sign an agreement releasing us of any liabilities. Matthews said many customers even drive the 80 miles from Boise, even though it's illegal to carry marijuana back to Idaho.

And it only opened seven months ago.Īnd they're definitely not from Huntington, population of about 400. The dispensary gets 200 customers a day, with half of them being new customers at any given time.Ĥ20Ville pays more than $100,000 a month in taxes. It doesn’t sound very customer oriented and it doesn’t need to be. We go with a numbering system,' said 420Ville owner Scott Matthews. “With us having 25 to 60 people waiting to get in. With that move, the 420Ville dispensary became the only place to buy recreational pot within a two-and-a-half hours drive.Īnd that means Huntington is very different from any of its neighboring towns, with the dispensary parking lot filled with cars from Pendleton, Baker City, LaGrande and Idaho. Huntington is an old railway town in eastern Oregon that had been dying.īut in an effort to generate a little business, the city decided to allow marijuana sales after the state legalized recreational sales. Scott Matthews opened his medical and recreational pot dispensary, 420Ville, in February.

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