Bud Spleefman
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Precisely.economies of scale....
Precisely.
Believing big business won't ultimately take over cannabis production = not having taken an econ 101 class.
You might stave this off for awhile, but it's coming.
better hoard your prized genetics!
wait, nevermind.....too late
That only applies in Colorado. How's the price in Illinois, Squiggly? Still $4,800 a lb, I am pretty sure.......... what does your Econ class say about that?
$40 million dollar facility = a whole bunch of Bud Lite weed
1) It will take years for the entire country to go legal, so until then, there will always be black market demand, and therefore supply.
2) $500 per pound is already a common number for cost of production. Most dispensaries are around $1.00 to $1.20 per gram cost right now. Maybe its time to cut out all the useless but fancy Canna and AN supplements and just get to business growing good pot barebones. Now the difference is just that those guys can afford to sell pounds at only $100 mark up, but why would they when a psuedo legal market will let them get away with much more.
3) If we take a lesson from Cali, there are already massive outdoor grows and large greenhouses, however the demand in LA dispensaries is explicitly for top quality indoor. Economies of scale also dictates that jobs will have to be compartamentalized and immigrant laborers will be the only option. It will take years for a single massive agricultural undertaking to attain serious quality control that most small guys already have, let alone an entire industry.
$40 million dollar facility = a whole bunch of Bud Lite weed
That's totally true and that's why there will still be a niche for basement growers depending on how the legislation drops. People are always going to want Westlevren XII and other shit like that. It's just that these will likely be fewer and further between than we even seen in the beer and wine industry--because it's easier to grow 20 strains than it is to brew 20 different beers for instance.
End of the day though, fast forward to a time where there's full on federal legalization--and it's game over for the little guy basically. Even the "little guy" will be a relatively big guy.
I read an article where they interviewed an ex CEO for a big pharma company. He said that if weed was legalized federally no pharma company would want anything to do with it. They have looked into it and manufacturing marijuana has too long of a turn around time and they wouldn't be able to make enough money.
So for whatever that is worth..
No one said anything about big pharma getting involved. This isn't their niche (recreation).
Another Anheuser-Busch will be born, not another Abbott. Hell, if anything big pharma has done what it can to keep the shit from being legalized as it's going to dig into their profits considerably.
Well, there are some big grows in Denver, at least 800 lights at one I know of, and you can probably see the heat signature from some satellite in space. The DEA must have offices somewhere in Denver, they drive right by 100's of grows and Dispos everyday, and I never hear about any of them getting busted unless they are doing some "other" shit, like shipping out of state, or other illegal drug sales. If they wanted to take down grows, they'd be busy for years........
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