OSU expert says skilled farmers would swamp pot market
Marijuana is Oregon's most valuable crop, an OSU pot policy expert says, but conventional farmers would swamp the market if they jumped into it.
Pot quality would suffer and Oregon’s conventional farmers would swamp the market if they turned their skill, equipment, land and infrastructure to marijuana production, an Oregon State University expert says.
Seth Crawford, who teaches a pot policy class at OSU, said Oregon already produces far more high-quality cannabis than the state consumes, and could meet the state demand on 35 acres of farmland in Southern Oregon.
Crawford said Oregon’s growers could supply the total U.S. cannabis market on just 5,000 acres.
“Throw in another 500 and you’d cover Canada, too,” Crawford said.
He said Oregon now grows the best pot in the country at reasonable prices, and quality would decline if large growers jumped into the business. Existing growers have refined their techniques over 20, 30...
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