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Most people still smoke cheaper stuff, like the Mexican brick weed...

Maybe, but sure not around here. In "the old days" we used to get whole ounces of the Mexican stuff for anywhere between free and fifteen bucks. Pretty decent homegrown (from outdoors in the woods) was maybe a little bit less. There was stuff in circulation around here back then called "Panama Red" and I think that was better than the indoor/hydro that circulates around here these days. But there's no cheap Mexican option around these parts today, and the going rate for buds of any type is $50 per 1/8.

Leaf and shake can be had for free if it's available, but everyone around here are pretty snobbish about it & won't do anything with it except make green butter or other preparations.

I wish I didn't know all this stuff but, although I grew up a long time ago, my wife hasn't. The last time I got baked was about 10 years ago when she made some Zataran's beans & rice with some of that butter (and didn't tell me). I was wrecked that night and all the next day And it was a work day to boot (can you say paranoid)?

I'm in the South and there's just tons of the cheap Mexican stuff around here. No shortage of Mexicans either, which is probably why Mexican pot is so cheap and prevalent here. I'm a lawyer and I'm in court all the time and I'm always seeing the little evidence bags the cops bring in and the pot they have is always the compressed Mexican pot, usually seedy. From what I understand that's what they get in just about all their busts. We get a lot of drug mule cases too where people will have large loads of it they're transporting out east on the highway. You don't see large loads of fluffy potent stuff around here like you might see by the Canadian border, just bricks of compressed Mexican. My clients tell me how much it costs, and sometimes I'll read about it in police reports. The local drug task force guys tell me they can buy pounds of it all day for $400, which surprises me because cops usually don't spend a lot of time developing business relationships with people to get good deals before they bust them.

The powerful indoor grown stuff is around too though, locally grown mostly by small scale grower types. I know some people who will only buy that stuff. They tell me it's in the $100 to $120 a quarter ounce range. It's hard to say how much of that is out there though. These people I know at least who buy that stuff aren't they types who get in trouble. It's too expensive for most people when they can buy Mexican for almost nothing. The people who can afford it tend to be either rich kids or older folks with good jobs who live in nice neighborhoods and rarely ever attract attention from the police. We don't see people like that in court much. Oh, and certainly not everyone with money buys the expensive stuff either. A lot of people think it's a rip off and some don't care for really strong pot because it is easy for people to go "one toke over the line" with that stuff and have to sit there for a couple of hours wishing they'd come down.

I think our government last estimated that Mexican drug trafficking organizations supply us about 8 thousand metric tons of pot a year. I've also seen government estimates where they say the total supply of marijuana in a given year in this country is somewhere between 12 and 25 thousand metric tons. So Mexicans are either supplying most of our pot, or a large part of it. Canadians supply a much smaller amount, and some will make it in from other countries, but the remainder is grown here and most of it is grown outdoors and isn't that super sticky hydro weed.