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Not sure where you got your information? WA state took applications for a 30 day period. In that time frame there were right at 2800 applications for growers. EVERYONE that applied to grow that can pass the background check, fills out there application properly and has a viable business plan will be licensed to grow. They are not limiting the number of growers here from that pool of 2800 applications. Even though the state projects that they want to set a 2 million square feet of canopy cap for the state they will not do anything about that for at least a year to see how people do with their grows, how much canopy they actually put into production and what quantities the actual market will bear. If anything there will be a glut of legal weed in WA state which is most of the growers main concern here. If 2800 growers is not enough they will open their licensing process again to accept more licenses from growers but personally I would not expect that in the next year or maybe more.
The only limit on numbers of licenses being issued is for retail shops of which they have limited to 334 throughout the state and they only allow a certain number per community or in areas with lower populations they only allow a certain number per county. People applying for retail shops will have to be in a lottery if more people applied than there are allotted spots for.
I guess I was misinformed about the amount of legal grows that will be allowed. I just looked it up and you're correct; the LCB did not put a limit on the numbers of growers but they did make it easy to deny people if they want. It still doesn't make a difference in the fact that to make way for recreational the LCB wants to kill off medical. I guess we'll all see as time passes. I just couldn't see only getting 1K per lb and still giving a shit about it turning out top notch.
This is what's going to hurt recreational though,
"What is retail marijuana going to cost?
A: OFM’s fiscal impact statement places a price estimate of a $3 per gram producer price, a $6 per gram processor price and a pre-tax $12 per gram average retail purchase price."
They want to sell it for more than what it already is yet pay producers less than half of what they already make.