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One year of legal pot sales and California doesn’t have the bustling industry it expected.
LA Times ^
| December 27th, 2018
| By PATRICK MCGREEVY
Posted on 12/27/2018 2:38:53 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Mariner
Street pot is too available in CA, why go to a legal shop for twice the price?
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posted on
12/27/2018 2:57:52 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
(Until further notice the /s is implied...)
To: Mariner
[When multiplied by even 10 million adults, its much, much bigger.
6 plants to maturity, outdoors in the ground will produce no less than 25lbs of trimmed buds.]
So they assign their pot cultivation rights to various farms?
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posted on
12/27/2018 2:58:52 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: Mariner
And they probably spent the tax money they were hoping to realize from sales.
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posted on
12/27/2018 2:59:18 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: SkyDancer
“And they probably spent the tax money they were hoping to realize from sales.”
Absolutely, several times over.
But for some reason the state still has a massive surplus.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:00:52 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
These people are nuts. It would be a lot simpler to just have people grow however much pot they want, and pay taxes on the profits from the sale of those plants. But this being California ...
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:01:09 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: W.
According to my associates that indulge, around here the going rate seems to be around $10/gram.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:01:39 PM PST
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: Zhang Fei
No.
They just grow it. By the millions.
I’m surprised you can’t smell it...wherever you reside.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:02:01 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
[But for some reason the state still has a massive surplus.]
Cap gains taxes from Internet Bubble 2.0. When that bursts, California tax collectors will be looking into the abyss.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:03:05 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: Mariner
Colorado has the 6 plant law too. Hasn’t impeded them any. Spawned a bit of a cottage industry for non-pot roommates, gives a house more people so you can grow more plants. Sounds like the licensing and city regs are what got in the way.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:03:36 PM PST
by
discostu
(Every gun makes its own tune.)
To: Don W
That’s the black market rate in CA.
Retail is $15/gr for low to mid grade.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:03:41 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
Hard to bustle when you’re stoned!
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:05:23 PM PST
by
Reily
To: discostu
There’s two pot stores within walking distance of my house, and THREE converted warehouses for growers.
The parking lots at the stores are almost always empty when I go by.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:07:50 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: EEGator
“Towelie” writes a book...and fooled Oprah is one of my favorite SP episodes.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:09:19 PM PST
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
To: Mariner
[No.
They just grow it. By the millions.]
Inefficient does not begin to describe this process. How do you even ensure quality control? What if some “farmer” grew his crop on the equivalent of a Superfund site, while using banned pesticides to keep the bugs at bay?
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:09:49 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: KC_Lion
But is it
Kosher Marijuana?
Happy New Year, Tom!
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:10:07 PM PST
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: Zhang Fei
“What if some farmer grew his crop on the equivalent of a Superfund site, while using banned pesticides to keep the bugs at bay?”
If I were a pot smoker I would care.
It seems the state is trying to regulate that for the commercial growers, forcing every batch to be independently tested.
But the legal market is only about 10% of what’s produced.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:13:05 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Don W
Back in the mid-80’s, Oz’s of hydroponic skunk were $100. Two hit shit. Lasted a while!
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:13:53 PM PST
by
W.
(I'm tired of cleaning up after autokorrect. Wish it would die!)
To: Mariner
Maybe they should offer free pot to homeless and pot junkies in exchange for them picking up human feces, and garbage from the sidewalk. That way they could get rid of the pooper scoopers they pay a salary to, and save money. Won’t have to pay them work benefits, since the benefit would be the free pot.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:17:19 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Mariner
This could be a first. California taxes and regulates a new industry to death before it even gets off the ground!
To: Mariner
[It seems the state is trying to regulate that for the commercial growers, forcing every batch to be independently tested.]
So commercial growers can grow whatever they want, but individuals are limited to 6 plants? That makes a lot more sense.
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posted on
12/27/2018 3:20:36 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
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