Colorado: Marijuana Amendment Will Be On Ballot

The Daily Times-Call ^ | August 17, 2006

[robertpaulsen]

On that we agree.

[Nuclear321]

You're all caught up in this notion that since legal pot can be cheap it will be cheap. Government licensing, taxes, product liability insurance, etc. will drive up the price way beyond what it actually costs to manufacture.
171 posted on 08/20/2006 7:52:40 AM PDT by robertpaulsen


Manufacture? Why not just get a big flower pot and grow it? Seems to me the gov wont be able to drive up the cost then...now would they? ;) But seriously, in the end it will most likely be legalized in the entire nation at some point (or de-criminalized), sold in liquor stores or coffee houses, and regulated by the government (and taxed of course)....but manufacturing costs are low....you just plant a tiny seed and watch it grow like a weed. I doubt it will cost much more than it already does....$20 per 7 grams (1/4 an oz)......$30 per 14 grams ((1/2 an oz) That's right...you get a discount if you buy in bulk LOL). And if added taxes are become astronomical, people will just grow it for themselves. In essence, if legalized in the entire nation, organized crime is knocked out of the loop as really good quality crops already grow right here in the United States i.e. Hawaii, Humbolt County California, Arkansas, to name a few. Smuggling and imports would be unneccessary due to the abundance of the product already available. As it stands now...pot is, has been, and remains, a black market commodity until a legal method is made available to purchase it, yet the price has been relatively cheap and constant for several decades (price has not fluctuated). I'm not worried about cost increases: Pot heads are more clever than you may think...and thrifty too. Hehehe

P.S. (I saw a few posts that mentioed high college GPA's even though they smoked pot, so here's my 2 cents) I too graduated in the top 4% of my graduating class with honors (Magna Cum Laude) Bachelors of Science Degree (Psychology) Cumulative GPA: 3.91

AND I WAS STONNED EVERY DAY I WENT TO CLASS!!!

Could I have gotten a 4.0 if I didn't smoke? Maybe...but who cares? I outperformed 96% of my peers. And that's not too shabby. Cheers!

[robertpaulsen]

"I doubt it will cost much more than it already does....sold in liquor stores or coffee houses"

Just some quick examples to show how much it could cost.

Legal medical marijuana in California goes for $480 per ounce. Legal medical marijuana supplied by the government in Canada is $150 per ounce (and it's crap). Legal marijuana in the Amsterdam coffee shops goes for $240 per ounce.

Why would we even want cheap marijuana? Not enough kids smoking it?