What Happens When A State Grows Way Too Much Weed (HBO)

What Happens When A State Grows Way Too Much Weed (HBO)

When Oregon legalized recreational marijuana, the state decided to make the market as free and accessible as possible. It didn’t cap licenses, or restrict access to people living in state. It also made entry super cheap—growing licenses in Oregon go for as little as $1,000, compared to tens of thousands of dollars just across the border in California.

The hope was to make it as easy as possible for everyone to get in on the new and exciting market. And it worked really well. Too well, in fact.

Fast forward just a few years, and Oregon now has a serious problem on its hands. The roughly 1,100 licensed producers growing weed right now are growing way too much—about twice what the state is actually consuming. And that’s creating all sorts of problems. Unless, of course, you’re a consumer. Then it’s awesome.

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50 Comments

  1. Grace Craig on July 21, 2022 at 1:27 am

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  2. Øüÿ on July 21, 2022 at 1:27 am

    Free growing is equality you donkeys, these rich kids from Portland and Cali just want to use their rich boy city loans and be the only people making money, vice wants a dictatorship, that’s all



  3. Rick W on July 21, 2022 at 1:29 am

    This is the right way. A state or equilibrium for come.



  4. Tech Ownage on July 21, 2022 at 1:30 am

    price drop is the sign that the market is correcting itself



  5. Sanatan Stein on July 21, 2022 at 1:30 am

    Give it to me I’ll consume it



  6. Denis Vet on July 21, 2022 at 1:31 am

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  7. Jay on July 21, 2022 at 1:32 am

    My country does only 4 plants it works.



  8. Texas Outdoor Fanatic on July 21, 2022 at 1:33 am

    This makes total sense now when I buy weed in oregon the harvest date be months ago.

    In denver it’s super easy to find extremely top quality weed. In oregon it’s hit or miss, even though its literally everywhere



  9. Eric on July 21, 2022 at 1:37 am

    Hey i used to work for c21 and ive been to pure green a bunch of times lol



  10. Gabriel Joseph on July 21, 2022 at 1:38 am

    Im in Medford Oregon btw if anyone wants two pounds for 600 its good bud i just need money 💰



  11. Alejandro D on July 21, 2022 at 1:38 am

    Putin?



  12. Hoood Fame on July 21, 2022 at 1:40 am


  13. Evan Miller on July 21, 2022 at 1:42 am

    VICE explaining economics is like VICE pretending they are not State-run media indirectly working for China.



  14. Khalil on July 21, 2022 at 1:42 am

    So dramatic



  15. Michael Finch on July 21, 2022 at 1:43 am

    Me and my friends should come visit Oregon to help your too much weed problem..



  16. L0united on July 21, 2022 at 1:44 am

    green gold rush.



  17. MR. FUCR on July 21, 2022 at 1:45 am

    THATS THE BROWN GUY 420 GARDEN………..



  18. Yeshua Yee Yee on July 21, 2022 at 1:45 am

    Now in 2022 I can get 40% thc ounces for $22.



  19. Juiccc on July 21, 2022 at 1:46 am

    Weed should be free



  20. Dab Blaster on July 21, 2022 at 1:47 am


  21. Jeffrey Gillespie on July 21, 2022 at 1:47 am

    I live in Oregon and this is absolute bullshit. These guys are 99% in cash and this is just spin to make people think they aren’t profitable so they don’t pay taxes on their "losing" business. People out here laugh and say "I have a hemp farm that has lost money ever since I started it" which in Oregon-ese means "I have an illegal, highly profitable weed farm and a handwritten ledger somewhere under my house with all the cash." Man, civilians are dumb about weed culture. Everyone here in OR knows exactly what’s up.



  22. Harry Landers on July 21, 2022 at 1:50 am

    WTF?????? $422 a LB?????? I been thinking 200 an oz was a good deal 😔



  23. Tweek on July 21, 2022 at 1:52 am

    Just be glad you can LEGALLY BUY cannabis. My state is throwing FOLKS in PRISON for a joint.



  24. zachary gutierrez on July 21, 2022 at 1:52 am

    there is always room for the best. you get out what you put in, that’s why some nugs sell for 400 a pound and some goes for 3000 a pound



  25. The loft bird on July 21, 2022 at 1:55 am

    These people probably had never anything to do with ending prohibition or have done a day in jail for growing. Just had money to invest in a market that they had nothing to have made



  26. white Owl on July 21, 2022 at 1:56 am

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
    That’s what greed gets you in the weed biz.



  27. thegodhoward on July 21, 2022 at 1:56 am

    There is no such thing



  28. Sam Miller on July 21, 2022 at 1:58 am

    i thought competition was a good thing lol



  29. Khronic Ganja Of Oz🧬🌱 on July 21, 2022 at 1:59 am

    Well what do ppl think will happen when its federally legal?😂😂Ppl better realize u can’t create that much of a monopoly with weed when its so easy to grow and get ya hands on.



  30. Upwork Hiring on July 21, 2022 at 1:59 am

    I just found a legit plug Both indica and sativa strain bet @cracklady on telegram is the best plug 🔥🔥🔥



  31. Emperor Kam on July 21, 2022 at 2:00 am

    Free?😢



  32. Tim Roll on July 21, 2022 at 2:01 am

    You guys wanted weed why complain at least there’s plenty 😂



  33. E Saunders on July 21, 2022 at 2:03 am

    The free market will react in order to drop the price, let it even out. The state doesn’t have to intervene in the market.



  34. Callum Evans on July 21, 2022 at 2:04 am

    Oregon is having a weed recession



  35. Matt Shepherd on July 21, 2022 at 2:06 am

    That’s terrible I can’t believe weed went down to a fair price for the consumer



  36. izzy on July 21, 2022 at 2:12 am

    KEEP YOUR CAPITALISM AWAY FROM MY WEED!!!



  37. Pedro The wise on July 21, 2022 at 2:13 am

    Grow your own its not about dollars. Free your minds.



  38. Monke Mode on July 21, 2022 at 2:13 am

    Lots of competition is good. It means that only the best survive because they have a better product or better experience. It’s rough at first, but as the market develops it will be much better than a system of state-mandated oligopolies



  39. Tad Winslow on July 21, 2022 at 2:14 am

    state official is stoned rofl..



  40. John Allen on July 21, 2022 at 2:16 am

    What in the hell is luxury cannabis? All cannabis is good but none of it is luxury. It’s a sacred herbal plant.



  41. Oregon Gold Hunter on July 21, 2022 at 2:17 am

    How is the donkey video working out



  42. Sedgrick Williams on July 21, 2022 at 2:17 am

    Some people just dont give a damn a grow their own and dont play by the governments rules and the people they deal with are loyal and want this person’s quality of flower. The people who have wealth and power….the took it or earned it. Whose got the balls to make a million dollars then open a business and clean the money up….not me….but someone should right?



  43. Oreoluwa Adeyemi on July 21, 2022 at 2:19 am

    Go shop with @cracklady on telegram he is the best he has been helping me with kush for about three months✔️



  44. Cide on July 21, 2022 at 2:20 am

    Or you could send it to me!



  45. Beingmeloo on July 21, 2022 at 2:21 am

    Ik 3k packs



  46. Napkintin Napkintin on July 21, 2022 at 2:21 am

    could of sold me some at $1 a g 🙁



  47. sergorti on July 21, 2022 at 2:22 am

    They flood the market, struggling business owners panic and sell, they come in and buy, then things go back to normal and they have an empire to profit on.



  48. Bob Anderson on July 21, 2022 at 2:24 am

    Cracklady on telegram is the best plug for all kinds of pills and marijuana strain I just got my pills delivered



  49. BigPimp on July 21, 2022 at 2:25 am

    It’s 2021 and weed is still cheap here in Oregon 🙌🙌🙌



  50. Cashole on July 21, 2022 at 2:25 am

    Oklahoma is at this point in time aswell, supply exceeds demand heavily.