There are thousands of different vineyards located around the U.S, with many of them being located on the West Coast in California, Washington, and Oregon.
There are something like 25,000 different farms growing grapes in the U.S. at the moment for either wine, raisins, or table grapes. California alone is seen to produce about 90 percent of all U.S. wine as it alone has over 4,000 different wineries.
And the country overall makes up about 8 percent of the world's wine production.
As legalization of cannabis has continued to spread across the U.S., a number of vineyard owners have been looking to do things a little differently.
And that means that more of them have been opting to get into the cannabis business by looking to establish weed destinations rather than your typical winery estate.
There are plans for cannabis tasting rooms and other varieties of cannabis-themed vineyard experiences. A number of vineyards are choosing to get rid of the grapes and go for cannabis, others are leasing their land to private cannabis growers.
One vineyard in Oregon is looking to provide a weed and wine experience and will be branding the cannabis with the same label that they brand their wine with.
Other owners are looking to set up cannabis-friendly B&B venues where guests will be able to attend workshops on sustainable farming and be able to get hands-on lessons about cannabis from local pot farmers in the area.
They want to ultimately build a cannabis destination location for people around the world to come and visit.
It isn't clear what percentage of the wine industry are currently looking at getting involved in the cannabis market but there is said to be a decent amount of buzz surrounding that topic at the moment.
When it comes to economic incentive, it's pretty clear. Vineyard owner Katherine Bryan says that she currently gets about $2,000 a ton for her pinot gris grapes, compared to roughly $2,000 that she would get for about 1 pound of cannabis.
And all of these changes are occurring despite the fact that cannabis still remains illegal federally, yet legalized for either recreational or medicinal purposes in a number of different states already.
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Sources:
http://wineamerica.org/policy/by-the-numbers
https://www.statista.com/statistics/259365/number-of-wineries-in-the-us-by-state/
https://business.inquirer.net/230137/wine-weed-oregon-vineyards-try-hand-pot-farming
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay-Area-Mans-Vision-to-Convert-Winery-Estate-Into-Weed-Destination-424434713.html
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It's certainly interesting times. I wonder if and when it will be legal to grow something like that here. I would certainly add that to my vegetable garden if so, I really think there's actual medicinal uses that are legitimate.
It definitely has medicinal uses. The CBD component does in fact alleviate swelling and acts as a natural pain suppressant.
I live in Alaska, and in the past year marijuana was legalized recreationally. The business is booming, and the quality is improving by the month. I would definitely recommend, in a year or 2, a trip to Alaska, if not for the beauty at least for some flowers.
Skrt
Anchorage, AK
@doitvoluntarily
This might cause the price of wine to go up in price if less farmers plant vineyards in the hope of a successful cannabis crop. It will be interesting to see where all this will lead. Times are changing and that's for sure!
That is one unforeseen consequence with legal weed. People will go to the money and if pot is worth planting they will stop growing the wine grapes. Prices will rise.
Good point. Many smokers wives are not going to like that!
Hahaha. Thankfully my wife likes her ganj, not her wine.
I don't think the price of wine will go up significantly because of this. There are enough imports and the market and production are large enough to accommodate the cannabis demand as well. Of course we'll see. On the whole, bringing cannabis production into the fold of the taxable economy will surely have a positive effect overall.
Awesome! I'd love to go to weed vineyard 🌳🍾
That would do good to encourage another idea: WEED, WINE, AND CHEESE tastings!
Interesting to see such valuable stats. I'm in the wine importation business, and never even thought that vineyards would lose market share to cannabis! Gets me thinking if it would ever be legalized on a federal level. Thoughts?
Thanks for the post and...
STEEM ON!
I need to be buying me some cannabis stocks!!
Add a microbrew element and these vineyards will become a party all night venue. Build some casitas for the guests and your all set. They will have the no vacancy sign out forever.
Re-esteemed. i am not from US so i am wondering if it is an ilegal drug for the main gov can't they arrest those cannabis farmers even if the state laws is fine with em? how does it work?
if they wanted to waste their time and some valuable resources, they could.
Feds have been raiding marijuana businesses in Colorado and Washington that I know of. Not sure about other states.
Wow really?? That is so weird. Hopefully this changes soon
I thought Oregon was still prohibited?
they are selling it for recreational purposes https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/294861
Right on. Didn't know they were any where near that. Thanks.
That news has me feeling like one of the people in that Simpsons clip! Thanks for sharing yo! Nevada is FINALLY about to open up its recreational shops. I was at the botched Cannabis cup they tried a few months ago. It was not a Cannabis Cup.
Sounds like the kind of tourism I could support. ;)
I'd rather have a special brownie instead of a glass of wine. I would have never paired wine and weed before. Pretty interesting concept for tourism.
Very nice, Im in oregon I would love to try the weed and wine! Me I would probably do both lol!
I have to guess supply of wine will reduce and price will go up.
Fuck yeah I got some farms going to shooting next week can wait to share!
Resteemed
Those Vinyards have those nice WIne Press machines that can be used to press SanPedro cactus juice or to press Cannabis Flowers into resin or rosin or wax!!!
And those vinyards have the bomb soil! Weed grown on vinyard soil will create a whole new niche market of people who want that HIGH class weed grown on expensive vinyards with the classiest soil haha
seriously though just imagine when Cannabis infused WINE becomes more and more popular! Remember Coca WIne used o be endorsed by the pope! Coca products will become more popular as cocaine is decriminalized and they allow a few "dispensaries" or night clubs to legally sell cocaine in small little quarter gram vials and they will have it like they have now where people just buy the drugs on the dark web, or at a local dealer if the are in the know! I heard there are many Sushi places that sell you cocaine if you hangout there very late after hours! Drugs and not just cannabis but all the hard drugs will be controled and giiven out in samll doses to people who want them and the black markets will dry up OR just become more sophisticated and easy like it is becoming now with teh darknet and the ability for ANYONE to buy ANY drug they want online and have it delivered next day even sometimes DAY day delivery if you wan pay for that!