Shades PDX owner shuts down amid cannabis industry challenges including repeated robberies and market saturation; calls rising crime “unsustainable.”
PORTLAND, Oregon — A Portland cannabis wholesale business owner is shutting down operations, citing repeated break-ins, dangerous conditions and economic challenges in an oversaturated market.
Joel Stewart, who launched Shades PDX last June after nine years in the cannabis industry, said his wholesale transportation business connecting local farms with dispensaries faced mounting difficulties despite initial efforts to succeed.
“At the turn of the year, all of a sudden people started getting robbed, we got hit twice,” Stewart said. “I got friends in dispensaries right now
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