Black market, other risks remain as legalized weed turns three

Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs ^ | 7/8/2021 | Mike Brake

[Right Wing Vegan]

Welcome to the weedsuckers' deeeegenerate circusland. A Sodom and Gomorrah with filthy THC in the air everywhere. What a shame. May the backlash against this nightmare happen soon.

[Michael.SF.]

I don’t think we can call it the ‘Black Market’ any more without offending someone. We need a new name: ‘High Melanin content Market’ or the ‘African American Market’. I’m confident someone will have a better suggestion.

[Seruzawa]

Marijuana is a wonder drug that turns every user into a superior being. Just ask one.

[Responsibility2nd]

Woodward said most dispensary operators “are trying to do what is right,” but they are being undercut by black market distributors who are benefiting from the large number of both legal and illegal growing facilities.

“Dispensary owners are telling us they can’t compete,” Woodward said.

 

Well duh! Anyone could see this coming. Why invest in property, buy licenses and pay fees, buy your products, pay salaries and taxes. Expecially taxes.

When the local pusher on the street can sell at half your cost.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“The monotony of signs advertising marijuana products is only occasionally broken by ads for the lottery or a local casino.”

That’s a productive lot of advertising. We used to advertise cars, food, hotels, travel, drinks, detergents, toothpaste (with lots of cigarettes, whiskey and beer thrown in the mix). Now we only advertise vices.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Many of the liquor stores along the Oklahoma border with dry counties in the next states made a great business in liquor sales.

But when those neighboring state counties went “wet”, the OK liquor stores closed and went to selling “Pot”. They are now everywhere.

[hardspunned]

Marijuana is a gateway drug. A pot prescription is a gateway for having a red flag pinned to your doper arse. Any new age local DA goon will use your habit as an excuse to take your firearms.

[Responsibility2nd]

The dispensaries proliferated rapidly, sometimes more than one on a single block, more than 100 in one ZIP code. The Politico article cited Ardmore with a population of 25,000 and 36 dispensaries—one for every 700 residents.

 

I saw this in Colorado. A small town with no banks, no schools, no grocery stores, no real businesses of any means, but they did have 3 pot shops.

A Dollar General (of course), several fast food places (for the munchies), tattoo parlor, a bar or two, lots of run down mobile homes and pot shops.

Ain't legalization grand?

[Born to Conserve]

Pot is the best thing that ever happened to those who don’t use it. It lowers IQ by 20 points, and makes users lazy. Competition for jobs just got easier. Competition for college just god easier.

[03A3]

Oh the horrors of reefer madness! Why it’s worse than Covid.

[Seruzawa]

Awww man. What a bummer. Youse gotta bring us down?

[JimRed]

Welcome to the weedsuckers' deeeegenerate circusland. A Sodom and Gomorrah with filthy THC in the air everywhere.

What bothers me more is that when enough new users ('cause it's legal now, y'know) have toked themselves into befuddled unemployability, the habituation or addiction will be classified as a disease, like alcoholism has been, and they'll reap benefits from our tax dollars.

[JimRed]

Well duh! Anyone could see this coming. Why invest in property, buy licenses and pay fees, buy your products, pay salaries and taxes. Expecially taxes.

Here in New Jersey is is still going to be illegal to grow your own at home for medical applications. Guv's got to get HIS slice!

[LouAvul]

Que the libertarian addicts in 3, 2, 1..........

[The Louiswu]

[TTFX]

I would complain about the handouts.

[The Louiswu]

[ßuddaßudd]

(at least)once a day to keep the covid away ,,

[Mr. K]

We are not seeing all the doom and gloom predictions.

The black-market can’t sell it for more than the legal markets anymore.

So now there is competition. The price is actually going down. Which will remove some of the crime elements from it.