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Agreed. About the only thing that'd dent it severe enough to potentially take it down is offering 24/7 delivery service. That's the ticket for black market, convenience and proprietary genetics. You don't have the shit I want and you're not at my place in half an hour? My pack money is going elsewhere, done deal.put the marijuana black market out of business? ha! the state of WA might be able to put dispensaries out of business, but nobody will ever put the black market (for anything, not just pot) out of business.
Supervision in this case only means having set standards for what is able to be sold. While I agree with your statement to a certain extent, standards are standards regardless of whether its a state licensed gig or a "homegrow". The cream will rise. I am with dynamite. I know a few folks with over 100,000 watts on their key ring that can STILL out grow most 1k to 10k rooms. Its all in the hands of the grower. Now whether or not they let that skilled grower get a license or give it to someone who thinks a PLC will do all of their job for them is the question. You can automate a grow room , you can't automate a particular green thumb's dank unless you are that thumb.Name a commodity that is produced with higher quality by government supervision than by free market competition. Just one.
Supervision in this case only means having set standards for what is able to be sold. While I agree with your statement to a certain extent, standards are standards regardless of whether its a state licensed gig or a "homegrow". The cream will rise. I am with dynamite. I know a few folks with over 100,000 watts on their key ring that can STILL out grow most 1k to 10k rooms. Its all in the hands of the grower. Now whether or not they let that skilled grower get a license or give it to someone who thinks a PLC will do all of their job for them is the question. You can automate a grow room , you can't automate a particular green thumb's dank unless you are that thumb.
This sounds like oversight and regulation, or more like the Health Dept. than Government Greenhouse. Not what it sounded like at first, and I agree with this. Grades and standards are a good idea and good standards will drive quality in the marketplace.
Amen. I'm all for Cascadia if these chumps can't take care of their people. You should read Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach. Way ahead of his time. The government actually gave out quality cannabis seeds to its people to make sure quality genetics were widely taken advantage of and utilized. No monopoly was created or possible because they took out the money in the equation. Imagine that.That would sound like paranoid conspiracy theories- except that all the dots are there andthey're doing a great job of connecting themselves for us.
We The People must demand that legalization didn't merely mean MONOPOLIZATION by the United Corporate State of America.
That means YOU, people! Don't just vote, write letters- to your congressman, broadsheets, radio talk shows, make NOISE!
Amen. I'm all for Cascadia if these chumps can't take care of their people. You should read Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach. Way ahead of his time. The government actually gave out quality cannabis seeds to its people to make sure quality genetics were widely taken advantage of and utilized. No monopoly was created or possible because they took out the money in the equation. Imagine that.
That would sound like paranoid conspiracy theories- except that all the dots are there andthey're doing a great job of connecting themselves for us.
We The People must demand that legalization didn't merely mean MONOPOLIZATION by the United Corporate State of America.
That means YOU, people! Don't just vote, write letters- to your congressman, broadsheets, radio talk shows, make NOISE!
I recently read a very good and cogent few articles via Reason.com making just this statement. They worked the numbers pretty hard and the prediction is this--if WA doesn't figure out how to structure taxation and production so that the cost of a zip is only equal to or less than a black market zip, they're going to be furthering black market product. They were comparing how WA and CO are planning on handling their legalization. Let me see if I can find the articles again.I just herd a prediction that 502 weed with tax will be about 500 a zip and it will raise black market weed up to 300-400 a zip. I like status quo not a huge fan of how fast this is blowing up
I recently read a very good and cogent few articles via Reason.com making just this statement. They worked the numbers pretty hard and the prediction is this--if WA doesn't figure out how to structure taxation and production so that the cost of a zip is only equal to or less than a black market zip, they're going to be furthering black market product. They were comparing how WA and CO are planning on handling their legalization. Let me see if I can find the articles again.
Here we go: http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/21/will-legal-pot-cost-more-than-black-mark
http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/17/washingtons-goal-for-state-licensed-pot
http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/10/will-colorados-pot-taxes-preserve-the-bl
Name a commodity that is produced with higher quality by government supervision than by free market competition. Just one.
How bout alcohol? Tobacco? Pretty much any pharma drug you can think of? Before government regulation (or during prohibition) people were dying because of lack of regulation (bathtub Gin, for example). Of course, no one can die from pot, but history has shown that products usually improve when they are government regulated (like automobiles). The government is not some big scary entity that corrupts anything it gets its hands on. Yes, on a grand, federal scale the government is crooked, like the FBI, CIA, DEA, most of congress, and the judicial system. But that is NOT the entire government!! I'm really starting to have faith in the washington state government. And Really, the government is just a bunch of people, who in the case of regulating pot in Washington are concerned are actually worried about quality standards and making as much tax money as they can off of this. There is a mutual vested interest in eliminating the black market over time, the people in government are smart enough to know that the only way to do this is with quality and affordable prices.
250/lb for mids is a joke in texasI'm on record now as saying that sooner or later the going price for smoking herb will be $250/lb. That's right, not per zip, but by the pound. And it will be mids or better. This might be five, ten or twenty years, but eventually it will happen. If there is one thing America does better than anything else, it's drive the price down!
america blows250/lb for mids is a joke in texas
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