Last year the licenses for retail stores were issued before there was any product available from the licensed growers. This led to the situation of a supply deficit, which ran up the prices.<\/p>\n
The Liquor Board responded by issuing grower licenses twice as fast, which wouldn’t do a thing for that year. Of course adding retail stores would be nonsense with no supply.<\/p>\n
Soon, though, the growers had product ready and ever since December the supply had grown steadily, and the prices decreased. That is cannabis that has been grown indoors.<\/p>\n
Now the outdoor harvest is ready and there will be a lot of marijuana on the market. Some folk are guessing 400% of the required amount. At any rate, it will be nuts when the glut hits the street.<\/p>\n
Here in Port Townsend the vetted applicant for the sole retail store license finally opened a store this week. He’s had the rights to the license for a year, but couldn’t do the build-out until now. The state allocates licenses by community, and they choose to name a monopoly in PT.<\/p>\n
I won’t be here when the stuff hits the streets, but can watch easily via the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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