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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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To: SkyDancer

Oregon has always been full of underachievers, typical liberals.


21 posted on 04/26/2018 6:36:27 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: N. Theknow
Like how you used both the word "weed" and "joint" in your reply.

Personally I'm trying to stop using sexual innuendos but it's hard, so hard.

22 posted on 04/26/2018 6:39:52 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: aimhigh

Gee not every wants to get stoned


23 posted on 04/26/2018 6:40:36 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: aimhigh

Export crop...way to go, Oregon!


24 posted on 04/26/2018 6:44:14 PM PDT by hattend
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To: aimhigh

Then you increase demand.


25 posted on 04/26/2018 6:45:16 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: 1FreeAmerican

Sure, what business of it of mine what you do? :)

We’re already living in a place where people look blankly at a drawer of cash when asked to make change for a 5 dollar bill....

Ask yourself honestly if it really matters if “that guy” from the above example is stoned. It might make the encounter more interesting at least.


26 posted on 04/26/2018 6:45:36 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: Jolla
I don't know if it is the same as vaping but IL and another place it's being laced with rat poison because it gives a better high. A couple are dead and more are bleeding out of their eyes and other orifices. Four dead in IL now. Synthetic weed. And there are licensed growers of the real stuff in IL.

Isn't that what's in coumadin the blood thinner?

27 posted on 04/26/2018 6:46:21 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Jim 0216

Adam Smith was on to something.


28 posted on 04/26/2018 6:53:16 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: aimhigh

Too much pot?

Feed it to the Spotted Owls.


29 posted on 04/26/2018 6:54:08 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: aimhigh
I am reminded of the quote "If you put the government in charge of the desert, in 5 years there would be a shortage of sand."

And the time the gov't took over the Bunny Ranch for back taxes, and couldn't make a go of that either.

Put the gov't, especially west-coast liberal gov't, in charge and you're pretty much guaranteed they'll scr*w it up.

I suspect it's only LEGAL growers who are hurting. Over-regulated and overtaxed, their product is unaffordable. Stoners aren't rich, you know, so they went underground. The expensive, legal stuff rots in the warehouse...

30 posted on 04/26/2018 6:54:39 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: 1FreeAmerican

Yeah, you made me choke on my drink there for a sec with that one. I like your humor! =D

~W


31 posted on 04/26/2018 6:54:41 PM PDT by wheresmyusa (A knight without armor in a savage land...)
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To: ZOOKER

“If you put the government in charge of the desert, in 5 years there would be a shortage of sand.”

The first time i heard that line was from a Yuri Bezmenov lecture. Potent!

~W


32 posted on 04/26/2018 6:57:10 PM PDT by wheresmyusa (A knight without armor in a savage land...)
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To: 1_Inch_Group

Just concentrates, sure. But people are getting way higher than they normally would. Like overdriving your headlights.


33 posted on 04/26/2018 7:02:43 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: 1FreeAmerican
30 is ok? Can I get exponential on that and say at 60 I can be baked all day?

Be careful out there.

Of the three MJ smokers I can't disassociate myself from: 1) One is dead of drugs at 30

2) A second toker, a biker-neighbor who's also a retired sheriff's deputy, is tethered to oxygen at 70. His girlfriend, maybe 60 y-o, smokes MJ even more often and just had a heart attack.

3) A third toker, a neighbor and very long-term regular user, is also tethered to an oxygen bottle. For years, I never saw him outdoors. Retired at 60 from a grounds-keeping job, and inheriting millions, he can no longer visit his summer lake place at age 65.

34 posted on 04/26/2018 7:03:56 PM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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To: Pontiac

Cannabis flower is bud. Ground cannabis seed is sold as a dietary supplement and baked into bread. Highly nutritious.


35 posted on 04/26/2018 7:04:19 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: aimhigh

Yeah because Marxist State Gubermints are so adept at setting up a Capitalists Supply and Demand system from scratch. Just the normal bunch of Socialist fruck ups.


36 posted on 04/26/2018 7:09:48 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: N. Theknow

All you need are a few more Northern States to legalize Medical a Recreational MJ and you have a market for the excess. I would much rather see the Fed get rid of it’s Schedule for MJ so that States can do as they please without the overreach and meddling we now experience.

For those who wish to respond negatively be advise this is a freedom issue and has nothing to do with drug use. I am 78 and have enough meds to deal with for heart issues without resorting to MJ or any other unprescribed drug. I grew up in drug a drug free zone.


37 posted on 04/26/2018 7:10:43 PM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: 1_Inch_Group

Let’s see that’s $3.59 change I owe this dude...wish they had $3 bills...so, that’s 3 ones... or 12 quarters...then a couple more quarters...hey, look at that quarter... must be a new one...2017, Ellis Island....haven’t seen that one before. Wonder when the 2018s will hit the till. Anyway, (closing till and looking up) “Can I help you, sir?”


38 posted on 04/26/2018 7:13:28 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Does so

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Nelson

Then there’s Willie, still recording at 84.


39 posted on 04/26/2018 7:14:19 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: eldoradude
and you can smoke ALL of it and never get a buzz...
40 posted on 04/26/2018 7:15:08 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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