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Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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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.

http://www.zhitea.com

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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.

I'm surprised no one has recommended YS.

http://yunnansourcing.com/

If you want to get into puer tea, a good way to do so is to order a few samples from their US site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-erh_tea

Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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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.

There's still significant risk in grow operations because it's still a federal crime. The Obama administration has chosen not to enforce that law for the time being, but that can change on a moment's notice, and is likely to change if a conservative attains office (which will probably happen in 2016). Furthermore, even when done legally, there is significant regulatory burden on a state-sanctioned grow. You're correc…

Actually, in spite of Eric holder's memo stating otherwise, the raids have continued. As recently as November: 17 raids in one day in CO.

Re: Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

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So the EU is basically the "United States of Europe". Remember, the US is a bunch of independent states (NOT provinces) who pool resources for the sake of defensive and economic convenience, just like the EU. Technically, the Feds are supposed to have very limited powers. The situation in Colorado is analogous to The Netherlands explicitly declaring something allowed that the EU councils in Brussels have explicitly d…

Well considering the EU has no guns, no army, no police force[1], no courts for people , and no prisons and the Netherlands does , it's obvious which to trust. EU law binds countries , not people. If a country does something that goes against EU law (which happens all the freaking time ), then you can sue the country in the EU courts to get the country to change the law. The EU isn't able to arrest you. And regardles…

I'd definitely agree that, at least for the moment, the EU's powers are much weaker than the US's powers. I think it involves the EU member states being much less compatible and much more storied than US member states, and also the EU as an organization being much younger.

I believe it's evident that when you fly a bunch of groups under a single banner successfully for a long time, what starts as a loose, powerless alliance with only administrative activities (as the US was originally conceived) eventually becomes a very strong central power apparatus (as the US has now become).

Maybe it'll be different in Europe where the member states have so much independent history. Everything out here was basically a blank slate before it was annexed by the Union. In the relatively few places where this isn't true, there is much stronger anti-federal sentiment (the South, Hawaii). I guess New England is anomalous regarding anti-federal sentiments because I think it has always thought of itself as the most influential power in federal governance.

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