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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 07:22 AM Feb 2018

Oregon Cannabis Prices Continue to Drop. Stores Are Plentiful and Consumption is High




Oregon is a good place to live if you like cannabis. Prices are dropping 10 to 20 percent a year; stores are far more plentiful than in other western states such as Washington and Colorado and there are plenty of people who partake.

Those are the takeaways from a new look at recreational cannabis from Josh Lehner, a state economist.

"Recreational marijuana prices are falling and, in much of the state, retail options are plentiful," Lehner writes. "It appears to be a cannabis consumer's dream, or at least what voters hoped for back in 2014 when Measure 91 was passed."

Lehner breaks industry conditions down into three helpful charts:

Read more: http://www.wweek.com/news/2018/02/08/oregon-cannabis-prices-continue-to-drop-stores-are-plentiful-compared-to-other-states-and-consumption-is-high/

Geez, I need to make a trip out west.
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Oregon Cannabis Prices Continue to Drop. Stores Are Plentiful and Consumption is High (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2018 OP
wash state has really cheap pot too... one store routinely carries... samnsara Feb 2018 #1
Wow, amazing prices. I wish it was legal everywhere. dewsgirl Feb 2018 #2
That is for last year's outdoor askyagerz Feb 2018 #3

samnsara

(18,282 posts)
1. wash state has really cheap pot too... one store routinely carries...
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 07:30 AM
Feb 2018

....84$ ounces and has them on sale often for 54$ an OUNCE...when the supplier has an abundance.

I can only buy an ounce at a time so hubby goes in with me

askyagerz

(901 posts)
3. That is for last year's outdoor
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 11:09 AM
Feb 2018

Always gets dirt cheap this time of year. People don't even want it anymore unless they are making concentrates

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