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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
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Which is why I hope The Stranger is able to track these same guys down regularly for the next couple years and check in with them.
Gross.
I wonder how many turn to mugging when idiot students stop buying their mexican dirtweed.
I think that guy is right.
A year from now, the situation will probably be a LOT different than it is today.
Think back to Prohibition.
One day, buying bathtub gin is a reasonable option.
A year later you wouldn't even consider it.
"Another guy, dressed in a fur hat and gold chain"
Are you guys sure that Al actually went out interviewing? Seems to me he wrote this off the top of his head after watching a 70s blaxploitation movie marathon...
Don't just take my word for it. In Amsterdam they sell cannabis for around $17 a gram and there is hardly a dealer to be seen.
I am guessing that the prices might end up being different but the idea will be the same.
Dealers love that stuff.
Says someone who has never had the convenience, variety and diverse quality of MJ from a dispensery.
Keep dreaming buddy.
Now price is another story. I have no idea what the dispensaries are going to charge once the taxes kick in.
"No one will want those high mileage, less prone to breakdown cars...no, people will still come to the dealers they know and trust with our high margins and terrible service".
Whoa.
State-regulated THC levels?!? yeesh...
Hey, I don't create the news. I'm just saying that people are willing to pay a hefty premium not to deal with shady dealers to get goods of dubious quality. If you don't believe me, go to Amsterdam and see for yourself.
Of course, if you find a dealer that has lab verification of the THC and CBD content of their product, allows the customer to thoroughly examine the product, and can give detailed information about the genetics of the product I will stand very happily corrected.
I would recommend visiting the forums for the Amsterdam Coffeeshop Directory.
When they don't have to worry about being tossed in jail, recreational cannabis users can be just as fussy as any wine drinker.
If anything, dispensaries that service recreational users will do extremely well. If you give them a lounge where they can smoke while debating the exact THC/CBD ratio of Tangerine Dream or how the terroir of cannabis grown in Amsterdam or Copenhagen is totally different from that grown in Washington you will never have to worry about losing money ever again.
Or, if you don't think that is the case remember that there is still a market of actual for real medical users. If there is a market for it then people will grow it. Or are you saying that the people who were suffering from "I don't wanna get arrested-itis" were creating most of the market in dispensaries and therefore the whole program was primarily a sham?
But there are higher end dispensaries I could go across town.
Really? So you are saying that the dealer goes to a nice regulated store instead of the consumer. That seems like a totally necessary middle man.
So, this of course means that he or she will be totally fine with the potential buyer spending a few minutes closely examining the product.
Btw, where does he or she keep the microscope that you can use to examine the trichomes(and yes, that can be important as some cannabis is laced with tiny glass beads, called "grit weed". Also, at least one of the coffeeshops in Amsterdam has a microscope available to check the quality of the product)?
@29
You indirectly bring up a good point. In order to get cannabis with the black market you have to be at least somewhat cool. As someone who is about as cool as a volcano I much prefer the store route.
Bad article, don't mislead with your headline.
A lot of the dispensaries once you get past the card check you enter the back room which is staffed by cute knowledgable young ladies. These places are clean and nicely maintained, it is a business after all.
Check with all the recently busted dispensaries, the first thing the feds grabbed was the customer lists...
Just because it is legal at state level, the feds are still busting pot users in those states.
Check with all the recently busted dispensaries, the first thing the feds grabbed was the customer lists...
Just because it is legal at state level, the feds are still busting pot users in those states.
Now, would you pay a bit more for that, or would you prefer to get your stuff off the streets where for all you know it comes from Mexico and/or is sprayed with pesticides and/or has mold on it?
#23, if I cook a burger and fries at home, the ingredients and fuel will cost me about $3. If I pay $10 at the restaurant, the other $7 is for the service and the restaurant's setting.
According to this Rand Corp. report, if marijuana were really legalized rather than being controlled by a state government cartel, it would cost $2.85 a gram to grow at 15% THC potency in the central valley of California.
So, when you pay $17 a gram, that's 170 times the cost to grow. Let's be really generous and quintuple the growing cost to account for processing, distribution, retailing, and reasonable taxes, and call it 50 cents a gram. The $17 a gram you're comfortable with is still 34 times the cost of the ingredient, and you don't even get the service or the surroundings.
Put that in hamburger terms, and were talking about a $100 burger and fries in a restaurant. That's what your state-enforced cartel will be wanting to do. If you're happy with that, well, all that tells me is there's a reason they call it "dope."
But hey, if the stoners want to pay $17 a gram for something they could grow themselves for 10 or 20 cents, as a taxpayer I guess I'll be happy to take advantage of their gross stupidity!
When it can be grown for 10 or 11 cents a gram, there's a whole lot of room to cut the margins against a profiteering state cartel. You see, once recreational use is formally legalized, any state retaliation against competitors is going to look not like law enforcement but like monopolist protection.
Maybe that's the one piece of good news for stoners in I-502. It will hasten the collapse of the whole structure. The day will come when marijuana is actually legalized, at which point it will be cheaper than any of the stoners (or just about anyone else) dares to imagine.
For many of us who supported I-502, the most compelling reason to vote for it was the likelihood that it would lead to a collapse of the United States Government's so-called war on drugs.
I want us to stop imprisoning people for things I don't even think are wrong, much less deserving of jail time. The best target at this time for bringing down the prison industrial complex is U.S. drug policy, and the best target at this time for fixing our drug policy is cannabis policy.
Or maybe not! Maybe the stoners here really are going to be happy paying markups of 75- to 175-fold to the state government cartel. I tend to doubt it pretty strongly, but then I also tend to doubt the intelligence and diligence of your average stoner.
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON