Some states are dealing with pot shortages in 2021 that are making it hard for marijuana companies to keep up with demand.
Let’s take a look at what marijuana stock investors need to know about the potential pot shortages in 2021.
- The most recent states to deal with pot shortages in 2021 are New York and New Jersey.
- Both states are ramping up efforts to produce more marijuana but a unique set of hurdles make it hard to do.
- The biggest problem is that marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.
- That means that growers can just reach out across state lines to get their hands on more supply.
- Instead, everything has to be grown and sold locally.
- That sounds like a dream for local growers but there’s another issue: financing.
- Not many banks are willing to throw financing behind a business that doesn’t have the okay from the federal government.
- As a result, local growers can have problems getting their businesses off the ground.
- It’s not just New York and New Jersey that have run into these types of problems.
- Oregon dealt with a similar issue earlier this year when it couldn’t keep up with the demand for marijuana.
- Another state with a similar conundrum is New Mexico.
- It’s looking to legalize weed soon and that will put a strain on the supply of pot in the state.
- This has some members of the medical marijuana community calling for restrictions to be removed on growing in the state.
- Those shortages could be good news for some pot stocks.
- Companies such as Tilray (NASDAQ:TLRY), Canopy Growth (NASDAQ:CGC), Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQ:ACB), GrowGeneration (NASDAQ:GRWG) could benefit from this.
- Increasing demand for marijuana means increasing prices.
- That extra demand could also result in eased restrictions that allow these companies to do business easier.
- Of course, the best news would be the federal legalization of recreational marijuana, but we’ll have to wait and see if that ever happens.
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