Ya think?
Posted on 01/16/2015 7:20:24 AM PST by posterchild
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington's legal marijuana market opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn't have pot to sell. Prices were through the roof.
Six months later, the equation has flipped, bringing serious growing pains to the new industry.
A big harvest of sun-grown marijuana from eastern Washington last fall flooded the market. Prices are starting to come down in the state's licensed pot shops, but due to the glut, growers are — surprisingly — struggling to sell their marijuana. Some are already worried about going belly-up, finding it tougher than expected to make a living in legal weed.
"It's an economic nightmare," says Andrew Seitz, general manager at Dutch Brothers Farms in Seattle.
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I wish they would make it legal in one area everything and give it away for free all you want of what ever you want, but you can’t take it out of the the setup legal zone.
The problem of drug addicts would soon disappear through attrition.
And the JBTs at the DEA are working less these days, too.
“Just as people have learned nothing from their abuse of drugs.”
Mankind has been using substances to alter consciousness since the dawn of time. Making certain substances illegal hasn’t ever once altered that behavior. Ever.
What it has done is create an enormous black market run by murderous thugs in order to cater to an existing demand. A convenient byproduct is the destruction of the Bill of Rights and Federalism, something desired by statists on both the right and the left.
It’s more difficult for an average 15 year old to obtain a 6 pack of beer than an ounce of weed, ecstasy, PCP, heroin, or whatever. If reducing the use of dangerous mind altering drugs is the goal then the current tactics are a miserable failure by any measure one cares to use.
Deliberately making oneself more stupid than one is already is a very poor survival strategy. That being said what we are doing is not working. Make the crap legal for anyone over the age of 21 and let Safeway, RightAid, and Walgreens fight over market share. Sell it in five pound sacks and all the idiots who want to use it will be dead in about 6 months.
We can run some end loaders down the street, dump the corpses in a landfill, and the rest of us can go about our lives. There’s absolutely zero Constitutional authority for the Federal government to regulate this anyway.
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Humulus lupulus (hops) are also easy to grow and a close cousin to cannabis sativa.
But then the poor wouldn’t get their free pot!
Most of the nation still is. Too many people cannot or will not see the damage to our freedoms that the WOD is.
Excellent point. And who grows the best hops in the country? Eastern Washington, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and northern Colorado, right?
I'd like to see that tried since this country obviously lacks the backbone to try the Singapore solution.
They should have called it the "Freak Brothers Farm".
After all, "dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope".
That’s good. Maybe I can apply to get paid for NOT growing pot!
Send it to our State Department. They must be smoking tons of the stuff every day.
Is there a futures market now on the CBOE?
Ya think?
Not quite. All they did was reverse the flow in the drug pipeline.
"A lot of the marijuana the cartels are smuggling into Mexico is coming out of Colorado, Payne told U.S. News."
http://www.businessinsider.com/dea-cartels-are-now-smuggling-us-weed-into-mexico-to-sell-2014-12#ixzz3P08qMiPl
America is on it's way to becoming a marijuana provider to other countries. The Great Satan in action.
So a person can be arrested if they don’t keep a tally of what grows in a field or unmowed lawn they own? Thanks, stoners. <^..^>
Had not seen that but it makes perfect sense.
Agriculture is one area that the US competes very successfully with anybody in the world.
“IIRC growing your own is still illegal.”
Yes, but if it is legal for everyone to have the finished product...what basis would they have to get a warrant to search ones home to check? Getting caught with a bag of pot wouldn’t be probable cause anymore.
Instead of “a chicken in every pot”... just “pot for everyone”...
The stoners didn't enact the law nor will they make the arrests.
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