The Stranger: Small Pot Farms Are Getting Screwed The State Made Rules to Help Boutique Growers - But They're Not Working

"To [Vashon Velvet owner and WACA board member Susie] Gress, it shouldn't matter how much total weight she is producing. State regulations allow boutique breweries and wineries to turn a profit even when they are producing a tiny fraction of what large companies produce. Will Washington's legal marketplace be able to support tiny producers like her? That question is still up in the air."

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"Aaron Pickus, a spokesperson for the Washington CannaBusiness Association, a trade group Gress is a member of, said they are in favor of the WSLCB adopting a rule like Colorado's, which allows producers to increase their tier.

'Tier's 1s can be successful, but they are very much constrained by the artificial limit,' Pickus said. 'We should allow them to grow and compete based on the popularity of their product and not just based on the license they originally applied for.'"

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