New York cannabis farmers may have to throw away 250,000 pounds of product due to retail-store bottleneck

 New York cannabis farmers may have to throw away 250,000 pounds of product due to retail-store bottleneck

The state’s licensing process has created too much product and not enough places to sell it, a consultant and retail-store applicant said.

Three years after New York approved recreational cannabis use for adults 21 and older, the rollout of the Empire States legal-cannabis program has created a bottleneck of product with limited options…