Oregon Grew More Cannabis Than Customers Can Smoke

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Oregon Grew More Cannabis Than Customers Can Smoke. Now Shops and Farmers Are Left With Mountains of Unwanted Bud.
http://www.wweek.com/news/2018/04/1...mers-are-left-with-mountains-of-unwanted-bud/

It turns out Oregonians are good at growing cannabis—too good.

In February, state officials announced that 1.1 million pounds of cannabis flower were logged in the state's database.

If a million pounds sounds like a lot of pot, that's because it is: Last year, Oregonians smoked, vaped or otherwise consumed just under 340,000 pounds of legal bud.

That means Oregon farmers have grown three times what their clientele can smoke in a year.

Yet state documents show the number of Oregon weed farmers is poised to double this summer—without much regard to whether there's demand to fill.

The result? Prices are dropping to unprecedented lows in auction houses and on dispensary counters across the state.

Wholesale sun-grown weed fell from $1,500 a pound last summer to as low as $700 by mid-October. On store shelves, that means the price of sun-grown flower has been sliced in half to those four-buck grams.

Fortunately for Mexico's marijuana dealers, Oregon growers cannot legally sell outside their state. But this shows how recreational marijuana laws, if they don't artificially constrain supply (e.g., via very limited growing licenses), will push the cartels out of this business.
 
No problem! The government will enact subsidies and price supports to protect the pot farmers, all paid for by (1) those of us who are still working (i.e. not sitting around getting high), and/or (2) a new tax on snack foods.
 
No problem! The government will enact subsidies and price supports to protect the pot farmers, all paid for by (1) those of us who are still working (i.e. not sitting around getting high), and/or (2) a new tax on snack foods.


To be honest...we are already subsidizing the opiate industry through interventions in Afghanistan and our "Health Care" policies.

I'd much rather have a thriving free-market marijuana industry than continue dispensing freedom 1/2 way around the globe for a bunch of jihadists.
 
Half price weed is bound to bring in the customers. I think Oregonian stoners are up to the challenge.
 
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Maybe they can get it in the school lunch program. It's not fair that all the whitey's can afford good drugs, but the little brown kids have to suffer. :p
 
In other news, Frito Lay and Little Debbie are both building their largest ever plants in Oregon.
 
They can sell it to the Bimbo Bakery, imagine what pot can do for Boboli Pizza, Sara Lee and Entemann's.
 
Oregon Grew More Cannabis Than Customers Can Smoke. Now Shops and Farmers Are Left With Mountains of Unwanted Bud.
http://www.wweek.com/news/2018/04/1...mers-are-left-with-mountains-of-unwanted-bud/
Say what? Amateurs!
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Thread title is wrong. Maybe more than customers can buy, but I am quite certain that it is no more than they could smoke.
 
I'd much rather have a thriving free-market marijuana industry than continue dispensing freedom 1/2 way around the globe for a bunch of jihadists.

Why not use the thriving free-market marijuana industry to dispense freedom 1/2 way around the globe for a bunch of jihadists (and undercut cartels)? Too stoned to fight.
 
Kind of like those leaflet bombing raids in WW2, except this time the leaflets are rolling papers?

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No problem! The government will enact subsidies and price supports to protect the pot farmers, all paid for by (1) those of us who are still working (i.e. not sitting around getting high), and/or (2) a new tax on snack foods.

Are you saying that only the unemployed are buying the legal weed (or weed at all)?
 
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