<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> oregon.gov/OLCC </Td> </Tr> <P> The Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) is a government agency of the U.S. state of Oregon . The OLCC was created by an act of the Oregon Legislative Assembly in 1933, days after the repeal of prohibition, as a means of providing control over the distribution, sales and consumption of alcoholic beverages . To this end, the agency was given the authority to regulate and license those who manufacture, sell or serve alcohol . Oregon is one of 18 alcoholic beverage control states that directly control the sales of alcoholic beverages in the United States . </P> <P> In 2014, the passage of Oregon Ballot Measure 91 (2014) legalized the recreational use of marijuana in Oregon and gave regulatory authority to the OLCC . </P> <P> Alcohol Prohibition in the United States began in 1919 with the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment . In the early 1930s, Oregon Governor Julius Meier appointed a committee, led by Dr. William S. Knox, to study Oregon's options regarding the regulation of alcoholic beverages in the state . In what came to be known as the Knox Report, the committee recommended a system similar to Canada's . </P>

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