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Oregon Grew More Cannabis Than Customers Can Smoke.
Willamette Week ^ | 04/18/2018 | Matt Stangel & Katie Shepherd

Posted on 04/26/2018 6:09:41 PM PDT by aimhigh

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.

This month, WW spoke to two dozen people across Oregon's cannabis industry. They describe a bleak scene: Small businesses laying off employees and shrinking operations. Farms shuttering. People losing their life's savings are unable to declare bankruptcy because marijuana is still a federally scheduled narcotic.

(Excerpt) Read more at wweek.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: anxiety; cannabinoid; cannabis; cannabus; depression; hyperemesis; marijuana; pot; syndrome
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From the article, government is to blame. Imagine that.
1 posted on 04/26/2018 6:09:41 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

It’s too cheap to meter. Or something.


2 posted on 04/26/2018 6:10:33 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: aimhigh

"Try me!"

3 posted on 04/26/2018 6:11:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Sounds like they’re going to have to open some “day old” weed outlets. LOL.


4 posted on 04/26/2018 6:12:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: aimhigh

This vaping is bad business, these kids are doing wax and dab and it is like pot crack for some people, which in its raw form never did.


5 posted on 04/26/2018 6:13:14 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: dfwgator

https://youtu.be/D8aQ04dyRAM

The Tommy Chong Lincoln parody ad.


6 posted on 04/26/2018 6:14:58 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: aimhigh

export to Mexico -free trade


7 posted on 04/26/2018 6:15:10 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: aimhigh

Supply and demand baby. Operates for MJ also.


8 posted on 04/26/2018 6:18:00 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: aimhigh
Supply, let me introduce you to demand. Demand, meet supply.

I’m sure you guys are going to get along beautifully - unless the government sticks it’s face in your business...

9 posted on 04/26/2018 6:18:15 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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The wax and whatnot are just concentrates, which means you need to use less of the item to achieve a desired effect.

That said, anyone under 30 shouldn’t be consuming THC a whole lot. Bad for underdeveloped brains...flips on the dummy switch. Think that was the medical term for it.


10 posted on 04/26/2018 6:19:30 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: dfwgator

ROFL!!!


11 posted on 04/26/2018 6:20:51 PM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: aimhigh

Grifters and lowlifes who thought they’d live the high life got wiped out. Schadenfreude!


12 posted on 04/26/2018 6:21:41 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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In February, state officials announced that 1.1 million pounds of cannabis flower were logged in the state's database.

I am not exactly sure what they mean by “cannabis flower”.

Do they mean buds? If so that would mean there must be at least 10 million pounds of cannabis leaf.

I am fairly sure they don’t mean ground cannabis seed. I have never heard of a use for that.

13 posted on 04/26/2018 6:23:59 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Sounds as though the Dept. of Agriculture should impose allotments to weed out the growers that are flooding the joint with excess crops.


14 posted on 04/26/2018 6:26:27 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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Might have to take the Amtrak to Oregon. I’ll be flying back . . . :^)
(just kidding)


15 posted on 04/26/2018 6:26:32 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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Weed grows like weeds. Go figure.


16 posted on 04/26/2018 6:27:21 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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So over 30 is ok? Can I get exponential on that and say at 60 I can be baked all day? I like the way you think!


17 posted on 04/26/2018 6:27:43 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: aimhigh

The smokers aren’t trying hard enough.


18 posted on 04/26/2018 6:29:34 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome Oregon?

Vomiting doesn't stop if using ever.

19 posted on 04/26/2018 6:30:06 PM PDT by CptnObvious (uestion her now.)
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Losing money growing a weed? Drive I-80 through Nebraska in late August and you’ll see miles of it wild in the Platte River. LMAO.


20 posted on 04/26/2018 6:35:29 PM PDT by eldoradude (Walk a mile in a man's shoes and he'll never catch you.)
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