What is Oregon going to do with over a million pounds of excess weed?
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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/oregon-excess-weed-mairjuana-export-plan-774986/
Three years after its recreational cannabis law went into effect, Oregon is experiencing a growing glut in its marijuana supply, driving down prices and putting many of the industry’s
licensed growers and retailers on precariously thin ice.
While the state has raked in tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue, supply has far exceeded local demand, and Oregon’s legal industry is currently sitting on approximately 1.3 million
pounds of perfectly good pot that state and federal laws prohibit them from selling outside state lines — for now, at least.
According to the Statesman Journal, in 2019, Oregon lawmakers are considering proposed legislation that would be the first major step towards legalizing interstate exports of
marijuana.
The first big warning sign of the bust came in October 2017, when the fall harvest produced more than twice the amount of marijuana as the previous year, while demand hadn’t — and
still hasn’t — changed. Smith has been working with lawmakers on proposed legislation that would allow Oregon to start exporting pot to other legal states by 2021, and hopefully save
remaining local small businesses from imminent collapse.
While the original bill failed to pass, a lot has changed since it was first proposed — especially the volume of unsold marijuana — and interstate exporting has seen a significant
increase in support from lawmakers and the local media, including the Statesman Journal and the Bend Bulletin.
Send it to Canada, our legal supply chain needs another year or two to properly get up and running since we just legalized it.
Send it all to me
Doesn't interstate commerce fall into the domain of Congress? They might have a rough time overcoming that obstacle (unless the momentum for weed legalization finally hits the federal government).
does weed have an expiration date
how long can they hold onto it
Marijuana's shelf-life depends on a variety of factors; kept in a cool, dark place in an air-tight container? It could last for a year or more before starting to lose potency/degrade. If it isn't treated well and is too damp, it could grow moldy quite quickly, within a month or two. Generally, marijuana can be expected to stay fresh in average storage conditions for 8 months or so.
well if they can't sell it, hopefully a lot gets donated for scientific study
ah the very much predictable 1st wave of failures and consolidations. You'd think we could prevent this as something like pot has the potential to create a larger scarier company than big tobacco and big tobasco
The invisible hand of capitalism is cruel and leads to desolation and ruin if unchecked.
I'm thinking of that hilarious scene from Reno 911 where the team decides the best way to deal with like eighteen kilos of pot is to burn it.
Send it to Canada.
We're almost out of stock and it's only been 3 months since legalization.
Give it to me, I know a guy, able to make it vanish without a trace, trust me I do this all the time
money waiting to be made... but NOOO ITS THE DEVIL'S PLANT
I have found with 0 exposure to uv and in a oxygen free container(vacuum packed) a year plus is feasible. I've found old concentrates 2-3 years old in a desk that were perfectly fine, so processing can extend shelf life.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it got destroyed.
Give it all to me, i'll take good care of it.
if it can't be sold or transported anywhere, can it be composted?
How is it excess? Sell it dummy
Burn it
smoke it I guess
if not ill take it
Acts committed in the crossing of state lines fall under federal jurisdiction for obvious reasons. So it's not that selling it is illegal, it's just categorically illegal to the feds. Separate state laws are also in place to stop weed from crossing borders and it does kind of make sense from a regulatory point of view. It's a two-way street as well. All our weed is tested, all our weed is taxed. These are good things. So it's not that simple.
Giant. Catapult. Right into Canada.
Thousands of pounds of weed for "scientific study"? Yeah that sounds gooooood
they should bury it in a vault
This doesn't surprise me. I live in Oregon and there's a dispensary 10 minutes away from me that sells ounces of decent weed for $40. I asked them why they're selling it so cheap and they said they just have too much of it lol
Give it all to @1+1
Can confirm, found a year old lost bag of weed in a gum container in my shed when cleaning it out and it still held up pretty well.
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