Pot prices could come down as harvest ramps up

POSTED ON OCTOBER 2, 2014

By Ross Courtney / Yakima Herald-Republic

KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. — Green pastures and barbed wire surround eight grow tents. Irrigation tubes guide water through neat rows. Seasonal employees tie up branches heavy with the fall crop.

In many ways, Life Gardens southeast of Ellensburg feels and functions like any farm.

“It’s just another crop, other than we grow a Schedule I drug,” said owner Greta Carter, one of five licensed Kittitas County recreational marijuana producers.

Slowly and in beat with the rhythms of agriculture, licensed producers are growing enough pot that retailers hope to eventually lower prices enough to diminish the black market, one of the major justifications for Initiative 502, passed by state voters nearly two years ago.

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