Wasted Weed: Canada’s Disposal of 3.7 Million Pounds of Cannabis Since 2018 Oversupply has been a real issue for the cannabis industry.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    There’s more than enough of that to go around.

    Doesn’t make economic sense to process low value plants into low value extracts.

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      1 year ago

      Not everyone wants a 85% THC extract with a minimal CBD profile.

      • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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        It’s still more efficient with way less energy usage, wear and tear on your machines, and residue build up, to distill high potency strains into concentrates and then dilute that down to the desired potency, rather than chew through enormous amounts of plant matter to get to the same concentrate.