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IF IT’S HARVEST TIME, WHY DOES MY WEED COST SO MUCH?

On the heels of a novel home grow segment, investigative reporter David Downs joins Leafly’s podcast to offer reasons why prices are the highest they’ve been in three years
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  • The obvious factors are scarcity driven by consumers sucking down record amounts of weed and the bud that was burned by wildfire. Less quantifiable are the impacts of the state’s licensing struggles and cannabis damaged by smoke.
  • Downs recommends consumers act on any good deals they come across, “because there’s no reason to think it will get cheaper like it normally does during harvest season.”

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