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Too much pot and not enough stores: Growers fear oversupply woes as openings are delayed

The Buffalo News 
December 18, 2022

​Patrick Hines was recently interviewed for the Buffalo News article, “Too much pot and not enough stores: Growers fear oversupply woes as openings are delayed." A recent lawsuit led to an injunction pausing adult-use retail sales of cannabis in five regions of New York State, including Western New York. With 63 licensed shops taken off the market, this puts New York's cannabis market at risk of oversupply. “Those who end up with excess product and who cannot properly preserve it, are faced with the difficult choice to either remediate the product and sell it as hemp biomass at a discount, or discard the product entirely," says Hines.

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