Price of a Pound in Colorado?

[DoobyScoo]

As a caregiver myself, I see this as a huge problem. Talk about driving the price down! Really?! Free?!!! Are the dispensaries free to their patients too?

This means that the ONLY market is again the illegal one.

I'm trying to run this gig totally on the up, at least as far as Colorado is concerned. I charge my patients $215/oz. If I have to go any lower than that, I won't be able to cover the overhead!


Grow well,
B.B.

Can't say you'll be missed when you move back home.
:party0042:

P.S. Fuck me, that wasn't in my Pro Forma!

 

[DoobyScoo]

"But it's all crap"
awesome... How did we know that was coming?

Because it is usually true. Especially if you HAVE to cap ALL your strains at $220.
Maybe you do grow the fire, and just have shitty marketing or the wrong customer base.
Don't know? Don't know you, don't see your fire (no pics), and don't know where to go to obtain a sample to test for myself.
I just have to add up all the factors that you are bitching about, my conclusion is, at $220/oz you are probably growing enough to make up for the price drop.

All I know is, seeing all these 'medical growers' that have been around here since June '09, really cracks me up. Two years of growing, some people grow hot fire...
Ten years of growing 50% grow hot fire...

Am I the only one here who has paid $50 for a steak?
I will tell you, I won't buy it often, but when I want the Dank, I'll take the $50 tenderloin at The Palm Denver, or similarly The Chop House.

 

[Mr Dank]

DoobyScoo I love the steak analogy. $11.99 steak at Applebee's vs. a choice prime rib from the Chop House :)

 

[B.B. King]

Dooby-

Just because I'm new to this site, doesn't mean I'm new to CO. I am home, and always have been. Do you think anyone who doesn't give away the fruit of their labor should leave the state?

Just my opinion, but I think anyone quoting God's Word shouldn't go hating on people for no reason.


Grow well,
B.B.

 

[DoobyScoo]

99% of the time I'll eat a steak cooked at home from King Soopers.
Sometimes I spend a little more for a good one from Whole Foods.
On rare occasions I go to the fine steakhouse.

99% of the time I get a $5 blowjob from a crackwhore on Colfax.
On rare occasions I get a $300 an hour escort.
Just kidding, but the point is the same.

Everybody that dropped their retirement savings into their 'get rich quick' scheme, are now bitching because they just can't make a profit on a business with a multi-hundred percent markup.
Competition is a bitch.

 

[cheech]

'Everybody that dropped their retirement savings into theirget rich quick'scheme, are now bitching because they just can't make a profit on a business with a multi-hundred percent markup.'

ain't that the truth.

economy of scales BB. one 600 watt isn't taking full advantage of your house's potential. after your next harvest buy 3 more and so on. keep buying until you are living in your family room :)

 

[SoCoMMJ]

Because it is usually true. Especially if you HAVE to cap ALL your strains at $220.

Who said I have to cap at $220. The idea is to get the patients quality product at a discount price. I know the concept is hard to grasp, but maximizing profits is not always the goal.

It conflicts with your dispensary bias but try to grasp it. Life is better without the hate.

 

[chickenman]

MMMMM.... Steak good....We get huge 3 1/2 inch thick grass fed t bones that I cook cowboy style over applewood, flamed seared almost till black, then roasted/smoked slowly. My friend raises incredable beef served at Aspens finest restraunts. This same steak at The Little Nell goes for $125.00, but mine way way better..........

 

[Dorje]

Who said I have to cap at $220. The idea is to get the patients quality product at a discount price. I know the concept is hard to grasp, but maximizing profits is not always the goal.

It conflicts with your dispensary bias but try to grasp it. Life is better without the hate.

I just saw an ad with prices capped at $160.

Meds might not be top quality, but soon enough disps that can't offer BOTH low price AND top quality will be going out of business.

 

[SoCoMMJ]

I just saw an ad with prices capped at $160.

Meds might not be top quality, but soon enough disps that can't offer BOTH low price AND top quality will be going out of business.

That and it's hard to keep the $2600/# growers contracts when you are retailing them for $2560.

Somebody is bad at math or buying for much less.

 

[GreenThumbBill]

First, off my patients are actually legit, not rec users

What a stupid fucking statement. I fart in your general direction.

 

[GreenThumbBill]

As it sits in Colorado today, recreational users are just med folks with no cash on hand to BUY their card. Period. Nothin more.

Whether it's boredom or cancer, everyone who uses "drugs" is medicating.

 

[IVIars]

......99% of the time I get a $5 blowjob from a crackwhore on Colfax.

now thats a deal. $40 in mexico :)

 

[kuz]

Dooby's stirring things up. Person dining at the Little Nell might consider the Chop House gimmicky crap

Chickenman has the right idea, buy the beef from a rancher, who butchers the cow though?

Some speculated we would see $150 oz at the Centers, I guess its going to happen. If its decent then good for the patient. Also good for the patient is that there has to be a lot of really good top shelf at some Centers, and more good small growers than anyone ever imagined. I speculate Boulder Centers will set the bar, they just cater to the right crowd, Denver and the rest of the state will come along.

 

[CBF]

blame it on the dispensaries, everything was going great till they showed up.

amen

 

[MIway]

now thats a deal. $40 in mexico :)

Does this seem familiar to a lot in the weed industry...

"Damn... $40 a blow??? Shit dude, that's banging crazy cuz if we could say do 6 jobs an hour & only have to work 3-4 hours per day, that could be over 900 per day x 30 & that makes for 27K per month!!! And there can't be much overhead in sucking dick, right? I mean how hard can it be to blow someone?? Shit, I'd even cut back on food costs as this would supplement my calorie & protein intake, no???

Fuck dude, $40 a blow??? Shit dude, I need to start pimpin on the streets of Mexico baby! $27K per month... and I'll be OG Pimp in da hood yo!!!

Fuck dude, $40 a blow??? I'm doin it... balls to the wall, taking paper all the way... all I know is that if someone else can suck dick, I sure as hell as can suck dick even better... hmmmm

Fuck dude, $27K per month take home... and all ya have to do is pimp & suck dick! Shit dude...

I'm gonna b a pro dick sucker... that blows!!! Fuck dude, bad ass yo..."


Kinda parallels a lot of peeps in the weed industry, no???


Ain't easy being a gangsta, playa... ;-)

 

[CBF]

As a caregiver myself, I see this as a huge problem. Talk about driving the price down! Really?! Free?!!! Are the dispensaries free to their patients too?

This means that the ONLY market is again the illegal one.

I'm trying to run this gig totally on the up, at least as far as Colorado is concerned. I charge my patients $215/oz. If I have to go any lower than that, I won't be able to cover the overhead!


Grow well,
B.B.

There are many caregivers who give mess to there patients, myself bein one of them, I provide 1/4 free every week to a patient

So just say you are maxed out on patients plus your self, 36 plants on a 10 week rotation, 18 in flower, 1.8 plants a week, which bein a shitty grower I can pull a QP, which costs me a free zip and a half per week, leavin 2 1/2 zips which I only charge 50 a quarter for, comes to around 1200 a month

Then if you choose your patients wisely, meanin al women, no men or kids you do just fine. As women, least the ones I have don't even use a quat a week.

IMO if your charging patients for meds and makin jack on the side off there plants your not a very compassionate person. I find it a crime and shows nothin but greed.

Just my 2 cents which means nothin in the overall.

CBF




Runnin a 10 week rotation

 

[chickenman]

What a stupid fucking statement. I fart in your general direction.

Thanks, GTB thought I smelled a sudden brief stinky somewhat sour malodor, lit a match killed it, now I know the source... Better look for mud...LOL...My point is my patients find real relief from my meds. Ive had the same 5 patients for 5 yrs., older folks, 3 are women, with a variety of maladies , there not a bunch of kids using the red card just to get high, everybodys happy as clams in mud.
Thats my point as stupid it may be....

CM

 

[DoobyScoo]

This is the real hurdle to 'Legalization'.

"Everybody else's shit stinks.
But mine smells like roses."
Kinda the general sentiment held by many.

In the end, we are all breaking the law. No matter how you spin it.

 

[SoCoMMJ]

[1] Firstly, I'd like to say, is it even legal for a caregiver to sell a pound?

[2]Are we talking wholesale for MMCs, or blackmarket?

[3]Can't most caregivers only possess 2oz per patient at any given time? Maybe 8oz for edible recs (if your city/county recognizes them). Which means most caregivers can only have 12oz at anytime, and can only (at least on paper) give it to their patients and only charge for services.
At best a caregiver can only 3lbs total (assuming 8oz. per patient, caregiver included).

[4]So what is everyone doing, going back to the old underground game? What is all this talk of everyone getting $4k? Either you are selling it on the streets, or you are moving it out east, either way, it doesn't sound like its very legal....

[5] Lets not fill this thread with flaming or bickering please. We don't care how good and/or bad your weed is, we are just trying to track prices and the market.

Since your original post didn't really get answered, here are my opinions:
[Be aware that since I own a dispensary there is a good chance that #5 may get rekindled]

[1] The only instance where this would be legal would be if the patient had an ailment that justified large volume usage. This is only and affirmative defense and would likely require a courtroom to sort out. If you are a caregiver and get caught by LEO slinging a pound, they likely won't buy the "he needed it" defense. Amendment 20 provides that patients or caregivers can define needed volumes above the 2oz, but you had better be able to prove it in court.

[2] Dispensaries can't legally buy from caregivers. I'm fairly certain that some dispensaries that can't grow well do in fact bring it in the back door. The black market is the black market... can't say much about that.

[3] For a CRIMINAL EXCEPTION to the marijuana laws granted by amendment 20, most you can posses 3 flowering plants, 3 veg plants and 2 oz per patient. A criminal exception will force LEO to walk away providing you have ALL the required red cards, change forms, etc. If you have any more quantity than that you get an affirmative defense IN COURT if LEO decides to send you there to justify your counts. Short story, it falls far into the gray area to sell pounds as a caregiver now.

[4] I agree, it would be difficult for somebody to get 4k legit wholesale in CO. Does it happen, maybe. Out of state sales or black market... possible but with assumed risks.

[5] Sorry to have to defend myself. Contrary to the opinions of some on this board, all dispensary owners are not "douche bags", "fucking bastards" or the general scourge of society. Just like caregivers and "private growers" some are, but not all.