What Happens When A State Grows Way Too Much Weed (HBO)
What Happens When A State Grows Way Too Much Weed (HBO)
When Oregon legalized recreational marijuana, the state decided to make the market as free and accessible as possible. It didn’t cap licenses, or restrict access to people living in state. It also made entry super cheap—growing licenses in Oregon go for as little as $1,000, compared to tens of thousands of dollars just across the border in California.
The hope was to make it as easy as possible for everyone to get in on the new and exciting market. And it worked really well. Too well, in fact.
Fast forward just a few years, and Oregon now has a serious problem on its hands. The roughly 1,100 licensed producers growing weed right now are growing way too much—about twice what the state is actually consuming. And that’s creating all sorts of problems. Unless, of course, you’re a consumer. Then it’s awesome.
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This is the right way. A state or equilibrium for come.
This makes no sense to me at all. Here in the State of Arkansas Medical Marijuana is selling at $365.00 per ounce!!! Also, they are often sold out of many of the most popular strains. However, with the passage of Medical Marijuana in 2016, the rules stated ONLY marijuana grown in the State of Arkansas could be sold. This is one reason it is so expensive. The laws should be changed so that growers from other States could sell in Arkansas. This way everyone would win. As it stands right now, the growers from other States, as well as, the buyers are losing out.
I live in Oregon and this is absolute bullshit. These guys are 99% in cash and this is just spin to make people think they aren’t profitable so they don’t pay taxes on their "losing" business. People out here laugh and say "I have a hemp farm that has lost money ever since I started it" which in Oregon-ese means "I have an illegal, highly profitable weed farm and a handwritten ledger somewhere under my house with all the cash." Man, civilians are dumb about weed culture. Everyone here in OR knows exactly what’s up.
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What in the hell is luxury cannabis? All cannabis is good but none of it is luxury. It’s a sacred herbal plant.
Give it to me I’ll consume it
could of sold me some at $1 a g 🙁
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The free market will react in order to drop the price, let it even out. The state doesn’t have to intervene in the market.
These people probably had never anything to do with ending prohibition or have done a day in jail for growing. Just had money to invest in a market that they had nothing to have made
About to be canada watch
1:40 GOOD, MORE COMPETITION IS BETTER FOR CONSUMERS
Some people just dont give a damn a grow their own and dont play by the governments rules and the people they deal with are loyal and want this person’s quality of flower. The people who have wealth and power….the took it or earned it. Whose got the balls to make a million dollars then open a business and clean the money up….not me….but someone should right?
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Oregon is having a weed recession
I love the guy whose job it is to regulate that knows the regulations these growers want go completely against a free market capitalist system is just innocently laughing at the vice shills marxist questions
Free growing is equality you donkeys, these rich kids from Portland and Cali just want to use their rich boy city loans and be the only people making money, vice wants a dictatorship, that’s all
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It’s 2021 and weed is still cheap here in Oregon 🙌🙌🙌
Lots of competition is good. It means that only the best survive because they have a better product or better experience. It’s rough at first, but as the market develops it will be much better than a system of state-mandated oligopolies
My country does only 4 plants it works.
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I’m confused this sounds like a utopia. Everyone can get it and grow it and they can’t capitalise on it. That’s amazing
It’s pretty disrespectful to take advantage of these plants in a profit maximization sense. It’s also disrespectful to have an abusive relationship with cannabis in our own lives. Legalization is the way, but we have make sure it is a properly competitive market product where the consumer understands exactly what they are buying and that it isn’t just worsening their life.
price drop is the sign that the market is correcting itself
How do i live in Oregon and not know about this😆😆
No cap is good. Free market is better. Let the dust settle. Let the cream rise to the top.
So basically you overvalued and now you are not happy? Lol
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Just be glad you can LEGALLY BUY cannabis. My state is throwing FOLKS in PRISON for a joint.
Never too much weed. Start donating weed left overs to the poor. They need weed to.
You can’t lose growing weed
Send it my way
The fact that weed has decreased smh and hardcore drugs have skyrocketed because people choose to be crackheads lmfao
at least the customers will benefit from the low pricing.
Give me a lighter and a bong I’ll get rid of a pound every 3 days
Weed should be free
state official is stoned rofl..
it hurts me that they have to destroy it
Y’all in the comments are LOST legalization was a terrible move, decriminalize it but the legalizing it the way Oregon did is pure DESTRUCTION. This completely kills small farmers and growers only opening the doors for big corporations. Come on now y’all!!
Free market rules soo f these people
Free market is good
Weed should be cheap. It grows like a weed. The only thing making it expensive is regulations. What a stupid piece.
Ahahhaha see what happens when you try to take out the small sellers . State gets its ass hand to them.
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