Too Much Ganja
Smaller vendors and ‘boutique’ pot businesses, including many that are minority-owned, will be forced to sell up to a larger firm or shut their doors entirely.
Too Much Ganja
Smaller vendors and ‘boutique’ pot businesses, including many that are minority-owned, will be forced to sell up to a larger firm or shut their doors entirely.
Apparently, having too much pot on hand can be bad for business. At least the businesses that hope to make a buck off commercial cannabis sales.
For a while, the warnings were all about the threat of shortfalls in the cannabis supply stream. Guess that never came to pass. Now, the industry is faced with a significant oversupply - meaning way more cannabis is available than customers appear to need (or even want).
Here’s one of many articles on this "crisis":
Ganja glut? With excess weed, growers seek interstate sales
As we might expect in a time of plenty, prices have plummeted, and profit margins are evaporating. Industry lobbyists have joined together to plead with legislators to authorize interstate trade in cannabis - something that’s currently prohibited. "We’re desperate", admitted one industry figure, openly worrying that vast amounts of unsold pot might simply rot in the warehouses.
Despite the law, it’s an open secret that some of the more...
For a while, the warnings were all about the threat of shortfalls in the cannabis supply stream. Guess that never came to pass. Now, the industry is faced with a significant oversupply - meaning way more cannabis is available than customers appear to need (or even want).
Here’s one of many articles on this "crisis":
Ganja glut? With excess weed, growers seek interstate sales
As we might expect in a time of plenty, prices have plummeted, and profit margins are evaporating. Industry lobbyists have joined together to plead with legislators to authorize interstate trade in cannabis - something that’s currently prohibited. "We’re desperate", admitted one industry figure, openly worrying that vast amounts of unsold pot might simply rot in the warehouses.
Despite the law, it’s an open secret that some of the more...
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