Terms of Use

Site Purpose

po.tc is an informational cannabis industry news website. The site covers topics such as regulation, medical markets, licensing, imports, retail, public-company developments, and related commercial context. po.tc does not sell cannabis, arrange cannabis transactions, process cannabis orders, provide medical services, or provide legal representation.

No Professional Advice

Content on po.tc is for general editorial and informational purposes only. It is not legal, tax, accounting, medical, compliance, financial, investment, or other professional advice. Cannabis laws, licensing rules, tax treatment, enforcement priorities, and market conditions vary by jurisdiction and can change quickly. You should consult qualified professionals and primary official sources before making regulated-market, medical, financial, legal, or business decisions.

Cannabis-Specific Notice

Cannabis remains subject to complex and changing laws in the United States and internationally. Material on po.tc may discuss companies, policies, products, or markets without endorsing them and without representing that any activity is lawful in your jurisdiction. You are responsible for understanding and complying with all laws that apply to you.

Eligibility And Children

po.tc is intended for a general business and industry news audience. The site is not directed to children under 13, and children under 13 may not submit personal information through the contact form. If you use the site on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to do so.

Editorial Content And Sources

Articles may be created with automated and AI-assisted tools, editorial review, public sources, public records, regulatory materials, press releases, and third-party reporting. po.tc aims for useful and accurate coverage, but information may be incomplete, outdated, interpreted differently, or later corrected. Source links are provided for convenience and context. You should verify important information against primary sources before relying on it.

Contact Submissions

The contact form is provided for news tips, corrections, partnership notes, press requests, commercial inquiries, and related messages. Submitting a message does not create a client, advisory, fiduciary, employment, agency, partnership, broker, or confidential relationship with po.tc. Contact submissions are non-binding, and po.tc may decline, ignore, delete, or filter messages for any lawful reason, including messages that appear abusive, automated, misleading, unlawful, or unrelated to the site.

Do not submit confidential, sensitive, privileged, medical, financial-account, or regulated personal information through the contact form. If you submit suggestions, corrections, ideas, tips, or other content, you grant po.tc permission to review, store, use, edit, publish, and otherwise handle that material for site, editorial, operational, and response purposes without compensation to you, subject to the privacy policy.

Acceptable Use

You agree not to misuse the site. Prohibited conduct includes:

• Submitting unlawful, infringing, deceptive, abusive, harassing, or malicious content.
• Attempting to disrupt, overload, scrape, reverse engineer, or compromise the site or its systems.
• Using the site to send spam, malware, automated submissions, or misleading requests.
• Impersonating another person or organization, or misrepresenting your authority.
• Using po.tc content in a way that violates law or third-party rights.

Intellectual Property

The site design, text, articles, images, logos, trademarks, compilation, and other materials on po.tc are owned by po.tc or its licensors, except for third-party materials referenced or linked for editorial context. You may read and link to public pages for ordinary personal or business reference. You may not copy, republish, sell, frame, scrape, train models on, or commercially exploit substantial portions of the site without permission, except where allowed by law.

Third-Party Links And Services

po.tc may link to third-party websites, sources, companies, regulators, documents, or services. Those links are provided for convenience and context. po.tc does not control third-party sites and is not responsible for their content, policies, availability, security, or practices.

Corrections

If you believe an article contains an error, missing context, or an outdated statement, you may send a note through the contact page. po.tc may review and update content at its discretion, but it is not obligated to publish, retract, preserve, or change any particular item.

Disclaimers

The site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, po.tc disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, uninterrupted access, and freedom from harmful code.

Limitation Of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, po.tc and its owners, operators, contributors, service providers, and affiliates will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or lost profit damages, or for damages arising from reliance on site content, use of third-party links, site unavailability, data loss, security incidents, or contact-form communications. Where liability cannot be excluded, it will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless po.tc and its owners, operators, contributors, service providers, and affiliates from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your use of the site, your submissions, your violation of these terms, or your violation of law or third-party rights.

Changes And Availability

po.tc may update, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the site at any time. po.tc may update these terms from time to time by posting a revised version with a new effective date. Continued use of the site after changes means you accept the updated terms.

Governing Law

To the extent a governing-law clause is enforceable and not displaced by mandatory law, these terms and any dispute relating to po.tc are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent through the contact page. The privacy policy explains how po.tc handles information submitted through the site.