can't see that happening considering that dispensary bud ranges from 6/gram to 12-15 a gram depending on strain and lineage.
the going rate on the street is 10-15 depending on your dealer.
it doesn't cost anywhere near 10/gram to grow regular weed outside. Maybe 2/gram. So they could have taxes up to 80% and I still wouldn't care too much.
Dispensary prices will react as they're required to. They're not trend setters, they're tailgaters. Their growers are illegal operations. They can be and could have been shut down yesterday. LPs are banking on them to "fill the gaps". When they crank down on it more, the price will rise.
LPs and dispensaries have also slowly been increasing prices in a variety of deceptive ways. For instance by offering degraded products made from junk materials and selling them at the same price while marketing it as filet mignon or some discount for the disadvantaged and passing it off as "affordable" which is a requirement of "reasonable access".
The LP dilutions as concentrates are a great example of that, representing a massive price leap. Dispensaries would hop along in tow if at all given the option. Recent years should have made it crystal clear they are in collusion, not competition. They risk being cut out but it'll be too late then and the prohibitive model will be what sets prices.
As for regular weed outside, who the fuck wants that? That's crap you buy when you have no option. That "Sun Grown" bullshit is from Californian dispensaries and it'll still be crap there too insofar as it fails to mean "controlled environment". It doesn't work here but LPs love the branding and will adopt it. Only here it'll mean hot house penny pinched to the max crap with supplemental lighting sometimes.They are fine with that because they're already pushing UN limits on potency, such as 9% THC, which they were forced into from a preferred 2% limit.
We do not have a free market. Free market forces do not apply. I really don't care what crap you're happy with or how much tax you're gladly throwing at them behind your keyboard for it. It's just suffocating innovation and competition.
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vacvape ago
The price will only rise.
Amateur_Wizard ago
can't see that happening considering that dispensary bud ranges from 6/gram to 12-15 a gram depending on strain and lineage.
the going rate on the street is 10-15 depending on your dealer.
it doesn't cost anywhere near 10/gram to grow regular weed outside. Maybe 2/gram. So they could have taxes up to 80% and I still wouldn't care too much.
vacvape ago
Dispensary prices will react as they're required to. They're not trend setters, they're tailgaters. Their growers are illegal operations. They can be and could have been shut down yesterday. LPs are banking on them to "fill the gaps". When they crank down on it more, the price will rise.
LPs and dispensaries have also slowly been increasing prices in a variety of deceptive ways. For instance by offering degraded products made from junk materials and selling them at the same price while marketing it as filet mignon or some discount for the disadvantaged and passing it off as "affordable" which is a requirement of "reasonable access".
The LP dilutions as concentrates are a great example of that, representing a massive price leap. Dispensaries would hop along in tow if at all given the option. Recent years should have made it crystal clear they are in collusion, not competition. They risk being cut out but it'll be too late then and the prohibitive model will be what sets prices.
As for regular weed outside, who the fuck wants that? That's crap you buy when you have no option. That "Sun Grown" bullshit is from Californian dispensaries and it'll still be crap there too insofar as it fails to mean "controlled environment". It doesn't work here but LPs love the branding and will adopt it. Only here it'll mean hot house penny pinched to the max crap with supplemental lighting sometimes.They are fine with that because they're already pushing UN limits on potency, such as 9% THC, which they were forced into from a preferred 2% limit.
We do not have a free market. Free market forces do not apply. I really don't care what crap you're happy with or how much tax you're gladly throwing at them behind your keyboard for it. It's just suffocating innovation and competition.
Amateur_Wizard ago
cool point of view, I never fully thought of it like that.