The staunchly conservative state now boasts more retail cannabis stores than Colorado, Oregon and Washington combined
Medical marijuana dries at Red Dirt Sungrown in Guthrie, Okla., on Dec. 10, 2021.
The growth is all the more remarkable given that the state has not legalized recreational use of marijuana. But with fairly lax rules on who can obtain a medical card, about 10% of Oklahoma’s nearly 4 million residents have one, by far the most of any other state. “There’s culture shock for outsiders,” Pederson said about moving to a tiny Oklahoma town. He said he plans to stay in the state for at least the next five years.
But unlike local businesses, where the customers are typically residents, critics assert that growers in Oklahoma are producing far more marijuana than can possibly be sold in the state and are feeding illicit markets around the country.
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