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Recreational weed industry 'verges on collapse' due to steep taxes, plunging prices, glut of competition- and thriving illicit pot market
Mail on line ^ | 27 August 2023 | KEITH GRIFFITH

Posted on 08/27/2023 6:04:50 PM PDT by dennisw

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To: dennisw

Far out, man.


41 posted on 08/27/2023 7:50:41 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: dennisw

They all need to study Stallone’s mafia-like business model for dispensaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqd7TfZSlwg

Tulsa King is far better than I anticipated but it is written by Taylor Sheridan of Yellowstone.


42 posted on 08/27/2023 8:02:53 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The Chicken Ranch in Nevada was seized by the IRS for non payment of taxes. They lost money selling nookie.


43 posted on 08/27/2023 8:18:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: T.B. Yoits

I think it is more about making the population more easy to control than anything else.
In all my years, I have not met a single super motivated go-getter, hard worker; that was also a pot smoker. Yeah, I know there are exceptions.


44 posted on 08/27/2023 8:27:59 PM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: vpintheak

I have a nephew who is a life-long pot smoker.

I admit he is not a hard worker nor a go-getter.

That said he has become a very well-to-do young man both by being a genius in the IT industry and investing in residential real estate in the Boston area.

When you are smart as he is you don’t need to work hard to be successful.


45 posted on 08/27/2023 8:33:20 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: dennisw

With booze people will pay the corporations their profit and the gov. their taxes because it is too hard to make. With pot the black market or the grow your own types can easily undercut the “industry”.


46 posted on 08/27/2023 9:38:14 PM PDT by Neverlift
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To: dennisw

There is a pot shop on every corner around here. They have run out of corners and so are building more. I hope they bludgeon each other to death.


47 posted on 08/27/2023 10:07:43 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: dennisw

The weed industry.

48 posted on 08/27/2023 11:09:08 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: cgbg

An exception to the rule for sure.


49 posted on 08/28/2023 12:18:57 AM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

“A drugged nation isn’t a nation that should prosper. It’s a failed nation.”

Indeed. I live in San Francisco (part-time), and of course there’s all this talk about the “doom loop” and S.F. becoming a “failed city.” But few if any mention the role that weed, particularly the “legalized weed” of the last decade, has played in the town’s decline. No city in a America or perhaps the world (that I know of) has more people toking it up on the street or in their residences. If I walked for 2 hours randomly around town, I’d probably smell the stench of burning cannabis 50 different places.


50 posted on 08/28/2023 12:35:53 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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Across the US, the legal weed industry is under pressure from a 'ganja glut' Prices have plunged even as dispensaries complain of high taxes and red tape Industry group warns pot business is 'on the verge of collapse' without reforms

Here in MO, "the industry" came in and wrote the regulations and made sure it was done via constitutional amendment.

51 posted on 08/28/2023 2:25:42 AM PDT by Pollard (The US government has US citizens as political prisoners!)
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To: dennisw

The seniors I know who smoke weed are growing their own.


52 posted on 08/28/2023 2:30:16 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Reverend Wright; NobleFree

“A drugged nation isn’t a nation that should prosper.”

Exactly ! The smell of dope is the stench of failure.”

Heroine has been smuggled to U.S. Navy ships.

Marijuana tainted with fentanyl isn’t rare, but satisfies many tokers’ needs.


53 posted on 08/28/2023 3:07:13 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Indeed stoner states have a high murder and high crime rates per the FBI all mass murders were stoners what could go wrong.


54 posted on 08/28/2023 8:22:22 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: EEGator

don’t know if it’s true, but a young guy I was talking to said even weed and consumables were tainted by fentanyl sometimes.


https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/experts-debunk-claim-of-overdose-by-fentanyl-laced-dollar/

It appears that has been completely debunked by experts who have disproven this by ignoring the evidence. It only looks like it, but it is really not.

And why do cops put on gloves and suits when around it?


55 posted on 08/28/2023 11:17:41 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: dennisw

Remember the drug cartels were supposed to go out of business ess once pot was legal. They are richer than ever.


56 posted on 08/28/2023 11:20:03 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: dennisw

Government doesn’t seem to get that there’s a limit to how much you can tax, and that limit is the point where customers decide to evade your taxes.


57 posted on 08/28/2023 11:21:56 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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