Growing pains: how Oregon wound up with way more pot than it can smoke The state’s glut of marijuana – over 1m lb of unsold pot – is in many ways the result of an industry still finding its feet. Oregon, which legalized cannabis in 2015, has seen hundreds more marijuana-related businesses issued with licenses than the state originally predicted. Photograph: Remi Theriault – Dankr.ca

Growing pains: how Oregon wound up with way more pot than it can smoke The state’s glut of marijuana – over 1m lb of unsold pot – is in many ways the result of an industry still finding its feet. Oregon, which legalized cannabis in 2015, has seen hundreds more marijuana-related businesses issued with licenses than the state originally predicted. Photograph: Remi Theriault

Growing pains: how Oregon wound up with way more pot than it can smoke The state’s glut of marijuana – over 1m lb of unsold pot – is in many ways the result of an industry still finding its feet. Oregon, which legalized cannabis in 2015, has seen hundreds more marijuana-related businesses issued with licenses than the state originally predicted. Photograph: Remi Theriault