[quote]There’s been relatively little analysis of what a legal marijuana industry might look like. One key but little-appreciated fact is that, according to persuasive research by Jonathan Caulkins, Angela Hawken, Beau Kilmer, and Mark Kleiman in their new book Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs To Know, is that legal pot would be amazingly cheap. In fact, midgrade stuff would be so cheap that it might make sense for businesses to give it away like ketchup packets or bar nuts.
Conventional thinking about pot pricing is often dominated by people’s experience buying weed in legal or quasi-legal settings such as a Dutch “coffee shop” or a California medical marijuana dispensary. But this is badly misleading. Neither California nor the Netherlands permit growing or wholesale distribution of marijuana as a legal matter. If pot were fully legal, its growth, distribution, and marketing would work entirely differently.[/quote]
There's probably a bit of hyperbole in the article, but it's an interesting idea.
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It will never be legal or I'll start a new confederacy and we'll have Civil War II: Straight edges vs. lazy smelly hippies. I think it's obvious who'd win.
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[quote][quote]Ignoring washington and colorados tax initiative. My good buddy was just in town, and he is a licensed medical grower. He produces medical grade at 20% thc, and cannabinoids that are between 5%-2% depending on the strain. He sells ounces around 125-175$ for medical use. He sells way under others since he streamlined his process. He has talked with a couple of his connects, and his stuff would go for around 50$ more per ounce where they sell it in the legal states, with the tax cut in. The low cost shit your talking about is rag weed, takes no effort to grow, an less effort put into its quality, and will go for super cheap. Think cheap beers vs craft beers. or cheap tobacco vs cuban cigars. The article is bullshit. There is tons to be made, especially if you are a 'craft' grower.[/quote] -Capiton Render This is an example of a stoner who knows wtf hes talking about. unlike camnator.
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One word: Taxes.
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That's fucking ridiculous.
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This is wrong haha
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#potpufferproblems [spoiler]hue[/spoiler]
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>says we have no clue >says itll be free >ignores two places where its legal, and varies depending on price >ignores medical marijuana industry
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Eh, maybe, but I'm sure it would be heavily taxed. It would probably still be cheaper than $10-$15 a gram though. Good lord.
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So packets of pot at Burger King? I'm okay with that.
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Until taxes.