The proper term for people who behave this way: Carpetbeggar. They have only been in Oregon since 2013, one of them with a felon - yet they come to Oregon - and are the "face" of legalization while doing what these articles are reporting on. My question is how did these people infiltrate Oregon and ride it so far? Prominent people in recreational cannabis legalization and leaders of major business and organization?  Come on. Voters need to do background checks and learn who is lobbying and changing the rules on us for opportunistic reasons. 

"Carpetbagger" was a pejorative term referring to the carpet bags (a form of cheap luggage at the time) which many of these newcomers carried. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders. The term is still used today to refer to a parachute candidate, an outsider who runs for public office in an area where he or she does not have deep community ties, or has lived only for a short time.