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What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Post by forkLding »

I've bought edibles and weed in Canada, mainly in Toronto. It used to be a lot stricter but now a lot less people check my ID or whatever. Overall the process feels more informal than before and less go through all these checks etc. Could be I look a bit older although I was able to buy weed at different places when I was much younger without showing my ID either back when it was stricter.

Also I've stopped calling them dispensaries because the places that sell weed have diversified, specialized or started marketing themselves with different products that it isn't just a buy weed location anymore so it's hard to put them in one category.

Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Post by handmodel »

staticassertion wrote: post #7

Weed being legal is cool (and a huge deal and way overdue) but, until I moved to SF, I still bought from a dealer. It was cheaper and I got really high quality stuff, got to give feedback to the guy on the strains, chocolates, etc. Plus my guy would smoke me up for free a good amount of the time and we'd just chill and chat for a bit. Legal weed is wayyyy more expensive in my experience and I dislike the experience.…

In california. I only do edibles. For $1.50 (including tax) I get 5mg so I either spend 1.50 or 3.00 when getting high on a night. Its within walking distance of my house. They do check my ID - but seems easier than dealing with a person I have to meet on a random corner. And if you were a woman or old person - that option would seem even less safe.

My yearly budget for pot if probably about $100-150 which seems remarkable low compared to my food or alcohol budget.

Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Post by bdjddd77 »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #16
staticassertion wrote: post #7

Weed being legal is cool (and a huge deal and way overdue) but, until I moved to SF, I still bought from a dealer. It was cheaper and I got really high quality stuff, got to give feedback to the guy on the strains, chocolates, etc. Plus my guy would smoke me up for free a good amount of the time and we'd just chill and chat for a bit. Legal weed is wayyyy more expensive in my experience and I dislike the experience.…

Here in the Netherlands tax for weed is really high. 50% if I recall correctly. Not sure I hate the idea -- at least tax money is put to very good use. But for those for whom it's more than merely recreational (e.g.: medicinal use), I wish they'd sell a tax-free version. Too prone to abuse I guess. However, heading to a coffeshop[1] isn't a big deal. It's a person behind the stand, you pic what you want from a menu,…

It's fucking nuts, 40, looking 50, got IDs buying a pack of beers in Walgreens I think, just stopping two night usa back to Europe. She wasn't happy that she couldn't scan the EU driving license but eventually she relented, same next night, I was perplexed, do they not enpower their workers? Uk is over 18, but ask for id if you have any doubt less than 21, 3yr margin, common sense

Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Post by jbuhbjlnjbn »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #23

> A recent survey conducted by Abacus Data for Medical Cannabis Canada found that those who access medical cannabis legally pay on average 34 percent more for their medicine than if they bought from the unregulated market. I’m unfamiliar with the weed market in general, but it seems like this problem is self-inflicted. They’re simultaneously oversupplied and overpriced. Lower prices and both problems sort themselves…

>I hope we can all agree that over-consumption is not good and that it could be a problem if multi-billion dollar companies are stuck in a situation where they need to greatly increase the public’s consumption of weed to become profitable.

First, this is semantics, "over-comsumption" is bad no matter the substance, but who is able to define it generally? But this is an experiemnt I would love to see, big companies pushing weed the same way then, say, the tobacco or alcohol industry before them. I have a hunch from all the information I have, it would be not nearly as problematic as the former, possibly even have generally a more positive impact on society.

Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Post by standardUser »

codevark wrote: post #2

Which is why there should never be a "cannabis industry". We created a food industry that produces sub-standard food and much of it goes to waste. Applying the same obviously flawed principles to cannabis is another mistake. Pot should be legal to grow/possess/use, but not to buy or sell. There's no point. It's so easy to grow. Just plant some in your backyard and smoke it. Or give it away. That's what it's for.

I don't have a backyard.

Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Post by opinion-is-bad »

staticassertion wrote: post #7

Weed being legal is cool (and a huge deal and way overdue) but, until I moved to SF, I still bought from a dealer. It was cheaper and I got really high quality stuff, got to give feedback to the guy on the strains, chocolates, etc. Plus my guy would smoke me up for free a good amount of the time and we'd just chill and chat for a bit. Legal weed is wayyyy more expensive in my experience and I dislike the experience.…

From my experience, there are huge differences between stores in terms of pricing and customer service. The industry is so new that just having your doors open is a license to print money, but it’ll start to standardize once banks are allowed to enter the field, permitting successful dispensary operations to scale storefronts. I just stopped at a dispensary in CA about and hour and half outside SF and picked up an ounce for $100, which is a better deal than I ever got from a dealer.

Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Post by bdjddd77 »

ryanlol wrote: post #49
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here in the Netherlands tax for weed is really high. 50% if I recall correctly. Not sure I hate the idea -- at least tax money is put to very good use. But for those for whom it's more than merely recreational (e.g.: medicinal use), I wish they'd sell a tax-free version. Too prone to abuse I guess. However, heading to a coffeshop[1] isn't a big deal. It's a person behind the stand, you pic what you want from a menu,…

> they've NEVER asked me for an id at any of these places Nobody ever carded me in Amsterdam coffee shops when I was 14-15, I don’t think it’s a common practice.

Same actually. But this was 25+ years ago. Oddly think we got IDs for the sex museum though and was it beers in McDonald's at lunch, there some oddities that trip.

Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Post by rambambram »

k12sosse wrote: post #75
KMnO4 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When it was legalized in Canada, the legal prices were pretty bad. There were also restrictions on only allowing the sale of flower (ie no edibles or concentrates IIRC). Since then, the government has pulled up their socks. The prices are competitive, the quality is fantastic, and the doses are accurate (as opposed to a “300mg edible” actually having anywhere from 50-500mg THC). As a result, I don’t know anyone who d…

I've been kicking this idea around in my noodle since judgement Day passed: a business like a local wine u-brew, where you come rent a stall in my warehouse and we grow your weed for you, in your name. When it's time to harvest, you can either take it home damp and dry it yourself or pay for us to cure it for you. Secure, safe, convenient. I can currently easily grow a (reasonable) year's supply for someone within th…

This what they do in Barcelona, if I understand you correctly.

Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Post by fuzzfactor »

_Microft wrote: post #72
NullPrefix wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A thousand tonnes is ambiguous because you cannot know if it's metric tonnes or not. A billion grams is unambiguous, because a billion prefix for the regular reader would mean pretty much the same as infinity. The 0.0000001 as the multiplier after billion prefix doesn't discount that, because you still have to read the billion out loud.

Isn't a "tonne" always 1000kg, while they only would have to disambiguate if they had written "ton"? Edit: yes, seems to be like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne

There's always this authoritative reference documenting some unambiguous weights & measures terminology:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Metric%20Fuc...

Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

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Post by grawprog »

>Barely more than half of all pot sales today are conducted through the legal market

When the government won't pay more than $850/lb no matter the quality of the weed, what do you expect?

The weed in legal dispensaries is straight trash. It's dry, usually packaged months before in containers or bags, costs more than the old medical dispensaries or literally anyone else selling weed.

There is zero reason to go into a legal dispensary, spend between $25-$40 for 3.5g of weed that's going to be pure garbage when I could get high quality weed for $15-$20/3.5g from pretty much any street dealer or delivery service.

Why would I spend more money on 10mg edibles when I can spend less money on 100mg + edibles.

It's completely mindboggling how badly the government fucked this up. It's hard to believe it wasn't intentional.

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