Wasted Weed: Canada’s Disposal of 3.7 Million Pounds of Cannabis Since 2018 Oversupply has been a real issue for the cannabis industry.

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      11 months ago

      It’s cheaper and probably way easier to use higher potency cannabis

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      11 months ago

      There’s more than enough of that to go around.

      Doesn’t make economic sense to process low value plants into low value extracts.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, any trim or whack weeds could easily be repurposed for concentrates. Theres probably more to it than just “nobody wants it”

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        11 months ago

        The size of the market was vastly overestimated. Every pothead wanted a slice of the business, so they all started up companies thinking there was unlimited growth potential. It was rapidly saturated and now we’re in the collapse and consolidation phase, exacerbated by the higher interest rates and inflation.

        Canada’s population is similar to California, but it’s producing weed enough for a country several times its size.

        Plus the black market still exists, albeit in a small scope, due to price, quality, variety, or loyalty reasons.