Failing Pot Farms are Killing this California Town's Economy

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Overproduction has dropped the wholesale price of cannabis in California by as much as 95%. That's made pot cheaper for consumers, but it's also made it impossible for many farms to stay alive.

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"Illegal" cannabis farms.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-01-15 12:02 PM | Reply

"Overproduction has dropped the wholesale price of cannabis in California by as much as 95%."

You basically can't sell outdoor grown weed in California any more. Nobody wants to buy it.

Which is good if you like cheap weed and don't care of it was grown outdoors.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-15 12:23 PM | Reply

Capitalism's a bitch...

#3 | Posted by Angrydad at 2023-01-15 04:40 PM | Reply

Up your THC % and we'll talk.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-01-15 04:45 PM | Reply

I can buy 31.3% thc legal bud for 80cdn and 30 of the 80 is tax.

#5 | Posted by Scotty at 2023-01-15 07:22 PM | Reply

per oz

#6 | Posted by Scotty at 2023-01-15 07:22 PM | Reply

And for just $50 USD you can get 1/8th!

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-15 08:49 PM | Reply

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Failing Pot Farms are Killing this California Town's Economy

Cui bono? and "Follow the money!"

www.washingtonpost.com - The casualties of California legalizing pot: Growers who went legal

www.latimes.com - Legal Weed, Broken Promises: A Times series on the fallout of legal pot in California
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#8 | Posted by CutiePie at 2023-01-16 01:34 AM | Reply

Years ago when I lived in San Diego I knew a guy who ran an outcall "Strippergram" service. He had a stable of young men and women who liked to dance and undress (among other unstated things) in front of others for money. Basically, it is a barely legal pimping service. San Diego was considering legalizing prostitution at the time. I thought he would welcome becoming legitimate. He flat-out didn't want it to be legal because it would affect his bottom line, meaning he and his stable would lose all that back pocket money.

Same with massage parlors...
Same with the pot growers...

There is much money made keeping things illegal...

#9 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2023-01-16 06:42 AM | Reply

Oh no, a surplus of cheap edibles and oil. The horror, the horror.

#10 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2023-01-16 09:48 AM | Reply

Can't grow pot and make a profit?!? Come to Okiehomie, home of the great pot production. Okies export more smoke than any other state in the country. Further, all manner of Cannabis licenses are easy to get, enforcement of illegal growing is nearly unheard of, and there is a good highway system connecting the Okie Tokie State to the rest of the US. The only downside are the pot-related robberies and murders, but, hey, every business has its risks and costs ...

#11 | Posted by catdog at 2023-01-16 10:13 AM | Reply

Get ready to see it everywhere.

Funny to watch people complain about how much tax is included.

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2023-01-16 10:43 AM | Reply

Being a farmer is for poor people? Wow. Earth shattering news.

Who knew an industry dependent on cheap illegal labor was for the poors?

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-16 10:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I gave up having anybody else grow my own pot back in the early eighties and grew for decades in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Way way back into the steep hills on a perfect south side rocky canyon with a thin run of water coming down the smooth rocks where I formed several beds of what I call Rose.
A little Canyon Wren would always whistle when I came to plant or check on my girls.
Hard work and big rewards of not having to pay anybody for pot. Nowadays, it's legal to grow pretty much anywhere in most Western States, so I really fail to see why people need to buy it from illegal or legal sources anymore. Just laziness I guess, or wishing to test different stuff and probably no ability to spend time growing your own which can be so rewarding l one's own strains.

#14 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2023-01-16 01:09 PM | Reply

#14

Some of us can't grow anything. I've never tried growing weed, but every time I try growing herbs, tomatoes, peppers, or anything else it turns into a dismal failure.

#15 | Posted by DarkVader at 2023-01-16 01:26 PM | Reply

Some of us can't grow anything. I've never tried growing weed, but every time I try growing herbs, tomatoes, peppers, or anything else it turns into a dismal failure.

Why would you at these prices and potency? I could understand a garden, as its more difficult to find good veggies.

Being a farmer is for poor people? Wow. Earth shattering news.

No it's not, only the rich have gardens and farms.

When the "farmed" product was illegal these guys made bank. They wanted to make it legal intending to make more money. Which was promoted by many as a way of increasing income.

What we have now is more illegal importation of pot than domestic production.

There is much money made keeping things illegal...
#9 | POSTED BY RIGHTISTRITE

Which these people in NorCal didn't expect.

#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2023-01-16 02:07 PM | Reply

This is a great thing for the environment in northern California. Less illegal pot farms means less water theft from rivers and streams. Less poisoning of "pests", which works it's way up the food chain into the predators, less paranoid jerks with guns protecting their pot farms, etc.

#17 | Posted by bus_driver at 2023-01-16 05:32 PM | Reply

For you "farmers"
www.westauction.com

Less illegal pot farms means less water theft from rivers and streams. Less poisoning of "pests", which works it's way up the food chain into the predators, less paranoid jerks with guns protecting their pot farms, etc.

Very true, I expect to start looking up in that area for a second home.

#18 | Posted by oneironaut at 2023-01-16 11:18 PM | Reply

Ship it east, young man.

#19 | Posted by fresno500 at 2023-01-16 11:41 PM | Reply

"What we have now is more illegal importation of pot than domestic production."

Not according to the DEA.

Shows what you know. You really shouldn't speak to things you have no clue about. But I guess that's never stopped you before either.

Marijuana Legalization Successfully Undermines Drug Trafficking, DEA Admits

In U.S. markets, Mexican marijuana has largely been supplanted by domestic-produced marijuana," one can read in the newest report by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), in the first-ever admission that marijuana legalization plainly works.

shepherdexpress.com

It's the way markets work. You learn to swim or you sink and die.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2023-01-17 02:31 PM | Reply

I have noticed that there is one constant in life you can count on.

Change.

And you can either learn to change with it or you are left behind.

Garberville is not representative of all of California. Plenty of other towns have learned to change with the times and are thriving under the New Rulz.

Much to the chagrin of magamaroons.

Apparently.

#21 | Posted by donnerboy at 2023-01-17 03:09 PM | Reply