Pullout Oct 22, 2014 at 4:00 am

Under-the-Radar Weed Farmers Critique I-502 and Explain Why They're Doing Things the Old-Fashioned Way—Illegally

(We’ve changed all their names and these drawings are imaginary.) Mike Force

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1
So now the stranger writers are just interviewing their dealers and passing it off as informative?You're not even pretending to be journalism anymore, are you...
2
This is exactly the journalism I esteem most. Smart people who already know a great deal about a sensitive subject interviewing people they know who know more.
3
Complaining about the quality of the legal weed? That's weird.

The pot I've been getting (from a shop just North of Seattle, which doesn't seem to have the supply-shortage problems of the in-city stores) is significantly better than what I was getting on the black market.
4
You can't argue on the price. I get some A+ black market shit now for the same price I was paying some ding dong operating out of his tool shed a couple years ago.
5
@1 If they were pretending to be journalism, it would be weird. What kinda costume would that be? I mean, a newspaper's just a newspaper. How can you be journalism for Halloween?
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@3, I suppose the consumer experience may vary (depending on the grower, shop, or dealer), but these guys clearly have some biases at work.

Ask a random person their cola preference, and they may like RC, Coke, Pepsi, some 'natural' stuff, or a store brand; bottled, canned, in plastic, on tap; for the taste, the fizz, the buzz, the price, or some childhood memories. Who knows what they'll pick, or why? But a Coca Cola rep will always say Coke is the best.
7
Idiots. All 4 of them.

Oh, and this could be corrected: That's totally not weird. (bold) Have prices changed since pot became legal? (not bold) Yeah, they've been changing pretty dramatically. They were changing before it went legal, though.
8
For me and - I hope - many others, it was never about the stores, the green cards, etc. It was about legalization.

Here we have four individuals who voted against 502 to protect their own business interests. That's nice work, guys. Way to look out for the rights of the people who are your friends and customers.

I gots no problem with these dudes flouting the laws themselves, but if they'd rather see Washingtonians go to jail than see their business model change, I can't get with that. Selfish. This is one of the main reasons I was glad to see 502 pass. Out of spite for these kinds of people.

9
A good piece. While the idiot Seattle Times is blaming medical marijuana for the so-so legal sales in Seattle, the truth is that there is a long-established black market that functioned very well for many years in delivering spliffs to stoners.
10
Marijuana was legalized by the people. The medical marijuana dealers and the illegal dealers were all against it because they knew it would drive down prices.

The big difference with 502 is that previously when you bought marijuana from an illegal dealer you were committing a crime then and continuously as long as the marijuana was in your possession. Now, it's a momentary crime and mere possession is just fine.

I hope over the next few years that we will realize the nightmare of these dealers and put them out of business, or rather in jail. And, that we will overhaul the medical marijuana system to clear out all the potheads and return it to people who might actually benefit from a prescription.
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All 20 somethings? Is that the best you guys could do? Who said youth was...smart?? No green cards? Here? Really? Apparently they've never heard of or been to a cannabis farmer's market either. Those prices are so cheap and the quality is at all time highs (pardon the pun) they'd ask why they still grow. Their perceived non-need of a green card is kind of telling of their "tribal intelligence" because in all the years I've had one (along with a CDL for 20 years before that thanks to the medical privacy laws) there's NO DOWNSIDE - NONE except in their minds. Like I said, who said youth had ANY brains?

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