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"This is an extinction event," Johnny Casali, owner of Huckleberry Hill Farms, a cannabis farm in southern Humboldt County, said over the phone. "Things are really, really bad." Casali is referring to a recent wholesale price collapse in California's outdoor-grown cannabis market.  This time last year, a pound of the best quality sun-grown, light dep weed on the market cost between $1,200 to 1,600, according to Chris Anderson, founder of Humboldt County-based distributor Redwood Roots and a former cannabis farmer himself. Wider wholesale prices settled between $800 to 1,000 per pound. Now, the same quality cannabis is fetching as low as $400 to 600 a pound and "going downhill," though some outdoor growers are still getting in the $800-1,000 range, Anderson explained. That is for the best outdoor pot money can buy, "fresh, sun-grown, light dep," which he said is genuinely limited and harder to find.  Courtesy of Huckleberry Hill Farms For contrast, Anderson says that indoor-grown "shitty, low end" flower is fetching around $1,000/pound, up to $3,000/pound for the best "designer, truly AAA, best indoor pot in the industry." He added that lower quality pot, whether indoor or outdoor grown, exists in nearly "endless" quantities. Data firms like Leaflink have not yet registered a price drop. A representative for Leaflink said it's too soon to see definitive or robust data for this summer's outdoor price drops. That's just in the legal market. Elsewhere in the country, pounds of the same pot trades at higher multiples in the illegal market, in some cases reaching upwards of $5,000. Supply and demand still rule the day, Anderson said, followed by quality. Indoor pot always fetches higher prices and outdoor lower, owing to outdoor weed's relative lack of potency compared with top-shelf indoor, as well as its potentially variable appearance. The decline in…

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