legal weed driving up prices....

[Guinevere]

On the other hand, there is (at least for medical marijuana in MA and in the other New England states) a significant regulatory process to go through to get one of the limited licenses which is time consuming and take resources. There are also zoning and local permitting processes. Plus, once approved the dispensaries are have very detailed and comprehensive requirements to meet for security, record keeping, book keeping, and any other number of issues. Most of those are ongoing, not start-up, costs. It's not like you can through open a store front, set up some cookie jars, and go into business selling weed.

And then there is the whole cash/credit issue because of the fact that marijuana is still a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act, plus the reluctance of banks to lend which means the ability to leverage an investment is more difficult.

I can see how prices could go up.

[wesw]

what I am saying is that recently, within the last year, the lower priced pot has disappeared from this area and been replaced with the exotics from California and Colorado. perhaps I m a little ahead of the latest statistics.

if you noticed, I said your statistics , meade, were fairly accurate, tho they could not be extrapolated to bulk prices, while I noted that rubes 3000 and 5000 dollar pound prices were not accurate, in my experience.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Glad you added "in my experience" since my posts confirmed the $3000+ price info. As to the rest, there was obviously regional and situational variance:

The year 1991 saw commercial grade marijuana being sold for between $400 and $3,000 per pound and for between $40 and $550 per ounce. A pound of sinsemilla brought a price range of between $500 and $6,000 and an ounce brought a range of between $100 and $450. In the year 1992, a pound of commercial grade marijuana sold for between $300 and $3,000. An ounce of commercial grade brought between $40 and $450. The sinsemilla, in 1992, brought between $650 and $9,600 per pound and between $125 and $650 per ounce (BJS, 1992, p. 62). Figures on marijuana prices collected by the Community Epidemiology Work Group in June 1994 show essentially the same price structure (NIDA, 1994, p. 48).

Above quote is from:
http://www.cedro-uva.org/lib/harrison.c ... .html#pric



Above image is from PBS - obviously Pothead Broadcasting Service

I think you may just be a little a head

[wesw]

your latest figures seem to agree with rube s first chart.....

...and they seem to multiply the price of a quarter once or ounce, to find the price of a pound. doesn t work that way....

anyway, I ve lost interest since you just wan t to argue...

farm aid? grow weed.

[MajGenl.Meade]

wesw, wesw. You make claims but facts and figures disprove your claims. You keep right on making 'em. They are not "my" figures but statistics and actual real information from reliable and reputable sources.

But in the interests of not arguing, I'll concede that you are absolutely correct despite the facts and the evidence.

[wesw]

yeah, the black reefer market is full of reputable sources....

wish I could find just one reputable source.....

[wesw]

...I noticed you haven t touched the idea of a free market....

and letting small farmers grow it....

[MajGenl.Meade]

Well spotted. Right again, wesw!

[wesw]

things we must not say?

conservative ideas, no?

[MajGenl.Meade]

[oldr_n_wsr]

Way back in the late 1970's and early 1980's I thought pot would be legal by now.
What ever happened to NORML?

[wesw]

click your heels together three times and..., no, wait that s Oz, not Awe

[Big RR]

Way back in the late 1970's and early 1980's I thought pot would be legal by now.
What ever happened to NORML?

The feds and state authorities recognized they could do a lot better financially and politically by blaming drugs for every ill in modern society and using confiscation laws to bring cash and goods in (not to mention that government sanctioned sale of drugs could be used to find extra-governmental foreign policy ventures.

[wesw]

Ollie north, the original crack dealer....

[oldr_n_wsr]

Way back in the late 1970's and early 1980's I thought pot would be legal by now.
What ever happened to NORML?

The feds and state authorities recognized they could do a lot better financially and politically by blaming drugs for every ill in modern society and using confiscation laws to bring cash and goods in (not to mention that government sanctioned sale of drugs could be used to find extra-governmental foreign policy ventures.

I would think the tax revenue legal pot would be greater than the confiscastion windfall. (but I could be wrong)

But if legal, they would lose the scapegoat for sure.
Are there more pot smokers now then in hte late 70's early 80's? (yes I am too lazy to search for the answer)

[wesw]

probably more older smokers and less younger ones, percentage wise.

but perhaps any search for accurate stats would be skewed by the fact that most people don t advertise their lawbreaking....

[oldr_n_wsr]

probably more older smokers and less younger ones, percentage wise.

It's been my observation that the younger people are more into opiates (pills and heroin). But then again, my observations may be skewed by the fact that I spend almost every night of the week at 12 step meetings or group conseling for alcoholics and addicts.

[dales]

Law Breaking?

What law(s) [besides Federal ones] am I breaking?

[wesw]

well dales, when you send me that care package......

[oldr_n_wsr]

well dales, when you send me that care package......

Speaking of care packages, some postal employee here on long island got busted for stealing packages that contained pot and other drugs.