Surplus will be taken car of by supply and demand issues. Apparently there is an issue of legal growers vs the black market or illegal growers. That said, all the growers are really illegal based on MJ being a schedule one narco drug:
DEA Schedule I include:
Heroin (diacetylmorphine)
LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)
Marijuana (cannabis, THC)
Mescaline (Peyote)
MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or “ecstasy”)
GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid) - except formulations in an FDA-approved drug product sodium oxybate (Xyrem) are Schedule III
Ecstasy (MDMA or 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
Psilocybin
Synthetic marijuana and analogs (Spice, K2)
Methaqualone (Quaalude)
Khat (Cathinone)
Bath Salts (3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone or MDPV)
The post is using legal weed numbers of pounds produced and pounds sold. There is a disparity. But there are a lot of illegal growers. Also, lots of people are growing their own, and s lot is given away to friends. It’s Oregon’s zucchini squash.