Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers • Hacker News Board

Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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Post by hondje » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 7:52 PM UTC

heynk wrote: post #30

Does anyone know if Colorado is enforcing seed traceability? That is one of the rules according to Washington's I-502 ( http://www.liq.wa.gov/publications/Marijuana/I-502/I-502_Dra... crtl-f "Traceability"). Theoretically, that means the Feds would be able to know where the pot came from if it was found out of state. If implemented effectively, that would negate some of the worry about the product ending up in the wr…

Our laws are very friendly to the small homegrower, much like our laws on brewing. Nothing legally stops me and you from trading strains and seeds without telling anyone or registering anything. You can give freely if you dont charge, grow 6 plants per adult (3 budding), and all needed equipment is legal too. We've already had our first hemp crop, which was grown for as many seeds as possible, and many more acres are planned for next year. None of those strains are tracked either

Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 7:57 PM UTC

dscrd wrote: post #48

nhebb wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine that since part of the customer base is underage, the illegal market will still exist.

Are there illegal markets for booze and tobacco?

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Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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Post by lostlogin » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 7:58 PM UTC

davidandgoliath wrote: post #31

lostlogin wrote: post #24

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The short time I spent in Amsterdam makes me agree with you. Stoned (and other highs), wondering around acting inappropriately and causing trouble.

And drunks? We all seem to ignore the droves of them wandering around causing trouble. I've never had anyone high on weed bother me for anything but cookies.. drunks on the other hand, tend to be violent &/or obnoxious, destructive, and much more.

The drunks were just as bad, however they are fairly bad everywhere in my experience. There was just an added layer of trouble. The guy trying to sell me a dolphin was memorable...

Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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Post by lukifer » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 7:58 PM UTC

mkhpalm wrote: post #55

vyrotek wrote: post #3

"Skeptical federal authorities are also paying attention. Although marijuana remains illegal under federal law, the Justice Department has given a tentative approval for Colorado and Washington to move ahead with regulating marijuana. But it warned that federal officials could intervene if the state regulations failed to keep the drug away from children, drug cartels or federal property, and out of other states." I h…

Truth is, every law is based on people who ruin it for everybody else. That is how marijuana got outlawed in the first place. People has this belief that we are somehow rewarded for passing thousands of new laws every year. The resulting authoritarian society is just the unintended consequence. Nobody actually picks authoritarianism on purpose.

Dig a little deeper on the history of anti-cannabis laws, and you'll find they're rooted primarily in fear of Mexicans and blacks. Sometimes authoritarianism is the goal, not the side effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger

Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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Post by squintychino » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 8:02 PM UTC

lotharbot wrote: post #59

mynameishere wrote: post #52

According to this the price will initially go up: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/30/high-prices-f... ...but since marijuana is literally a weed, why wouldn't the price eventually drop to something like that of tea? I mean, tea is harder to grow, process, and ship, and you can get it for 6 dollars a pound. Even the overpriced teavana stuff can go for as little as 40 dollars a pound.

The "tea" you get for 6 dollars a pound in the US is, generally speaking, the crumbs and fragments leftover from making actually good tea. Wouldn't surprise me if you could also eventually get crumb-and-fragment grade pot for 6 bucks a pound. There's still a market for legitimately high grade tea (not Teavana). I'm interested to see what sort of market develops, over time, for legitimately high-grade MJ here in Color…

Could you recommend a good place online to order good "tea"? I'd seriously like to try some to get a sense of what real tea is suppose to taste like.

Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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Post by borski » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 8:03 PM UTC

squintychino wrote: post #65

lotharbot wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "tea" you get for 6 dollars a pound in the US is, generally speaking, the crumbs and fragments leftover from making actually good tea. Wouldn't surprise me if you could also eventually get crumb-and-fragment grade pot for 6 bucks a pound. There's still a market for legitimately high grade tea (not Teavana). I'm interested to see what sort of market develops, over time, for legitimately high-grade MJ here in Color…

Could you recommend a good place online to order good "tea"? I'd seriously like to try some to get a sense of what real tea is suppose to taste like.

Check out http://tealet.com

Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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Post by cabinguy » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 8:09 PM UTC

plorkyeran wrote: post #28

paul wrote: post #20

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Napa and Sonoma don't seem to mind the alcohol tourism.

Not really an equivalent scenario. If all you want to do is get drunk, there's no reason to go to Napa to do it, so while the average level of intoxication is probably higher, it's much less so that it would be if it was the only place you could legally buy alcohol.

To be fair, if all you want to do is get high, there's no reason to go to Colorado to do it.

I think wine country is a pretty good analogy.

Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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Post by munin » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 8:10 PM UTC

dscrd wrote: post #48

nhebb wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine that since part of the customer base is underage, the illegal market will still exist.

Are there illegal markets for booze and tobacco?