Posted on 11/15/2014 8:16:28 PM PST by steve86
PROSSER, WA- Fireweed Farm made history Saturday after they hosted the first marijuana auction in the state.
Nearly 500 pounds of marijuana were auctioned off Saturday to approved producers, retailers, and processors. Those bidders came from all over to get in on the marijuana action.
There is a first time for everything, and many did not know what to expect.
“I expected nothing to be quite honest with you and everything at the same time,” said Jack Ron, marijuana grower.
Nearly 100 producers, processors, and retailers from Spokane, Vancouver, Bellingham, and other areas around the state, bid on marijuana from Fireweed Farm in Prosser.
“I think it's a good idea to put your toe in the water, try something different like this. if he wants to take off early and not be stuck all winter packing this stuff into one gram packages. I hope he comes out well with it,” said Steve Walser, Buddy Boy Inc.
Not everyone came to buy. Some came to give support and to get new ideas for their own businesses.
“Granted we're in the business, so this also helps us kind of get some ideas for our own business as well and rub shoulders with the people in the industry,” said Ron.
Prices went for $2.50-$7 a gram. The prices for retailers was a little higher.
“I'm a little disappointed to see the prices they're getting, but it is interesting,” said Walser.
Fireweed Farm Owner Randy Williams said the auction expected to sell nearly 75% of the product and they were on track to hit that goal.
Williams was just happy with the support of the community and everyone who came out to the auction.
“I'm excited to be a part of it and the marijuana community is a good community,” said Williams.
History was completed Saturday evening after the auction finished. Williams plans to buy more land and grow even more plants next year.
I have not purchased any pot. But refer to other threads for a thorough debunking of that non-causal, non-control matched “study”.
That’s roughly the wholesale price. An ounce at a legal retailer is offered for over $500. Blue light special.
I read Hayek loud and clear!
So anyway, we'd run up the highway towards DMZ and hike into rural villages, buy pot. It was like gold Mex. The Koreans dumped the reefer into rice paddies for fertilizer, sold the stalks. They'd have big piles of it in hooch area garden, and sold as much as we could get in duffel bag for 10 bucks; usually 80 lbs or more. Then we'd hike a couple miles out to taxi cab and head back south. Once we went through ROK checkpoint and ROK officer wanted the trunk opened. Our taxi driver argued with him then got back inside wanting like 30 bucks to pay the ROK off; best 30 bucks I ever spent, ha ha. The whole time, we had Koreans with m-16s pointing at us inside cab, ha ha. When we'd get back to base, we'd make false wrecker call and hide duffel bags under chains head in through CPO gate. Crazy crap ya did when young. Figured you all would get a laugh.
I voted against pot referendum in Alaska 2 weeks back;can't figure how it passed.
Its the kind of junk science that would be rejected out of hand here if it were about tobacco or alcohol. But such is the mindset of the Nanny Staters.
What, no “highest bidder” jokes yet?
When I was a kid, we hauled our tobacco crop to Upper Marlboro (MD) where it was auctioned...
Now tobacco is almost illegal, and pot is being legalized, and pot is being auctioned...
Well played, sir.
I used to grow as good as I could buy here in Kentucky back in the 70’s. Once dope is legal here I might see if I still have my green thumb. Only problem is I will probably get into much deeper legal trouble by stiffing the state out of it's tax revenue than I would have selling illegal drugs.
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