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How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart

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Re: How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart

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Post by rd »

standardUser wrote: post #55
asdff wrote: post #50

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I think if people were more open to it culturally it would be used a lot more. I know plenty of my elderly relatives who would benefit switching from opioids to this for their chronic pain, but they grew up being fed lies about the drug that precludes them ever experimenting. Socially its also not up to the level of alcohol is even in California. Every work event I have for instance has a selection of beers and wines…

I'm still shocked we don't have a weed emoji. There's at least 7 for booze.

It’s “” as far as I know.

Huh, never mind, I guess HN doesn’t support emojis

Re: How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart

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Post by hilbertseries »

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #111
ramesh31 wrote: post #100

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It's funny that marijuana advocates wasted decades pleading their case under the guise of personal freedom, social equity, compassionate use, and the like. Turns out all it took to convince the right was showing them the money.

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> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable - they are just misunderstood people that see beyond age or something like that

There have been people floating these ideas for decades. It’s not catching on now.

Re: How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #106
DonHopkins wrote: post #41

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>I'm in the wine world, so I suppose I have some sour grapes, so to speak. [...] $10 of fruit in a good year. Even if the demand for grapes dries up and withers on the vine, at least you won't have a problem raisin money.

Did you hear about the viticulturalist whose crop was lost in a drought? He said his whole reason for being was to pay off his raisin debt. (I'm still workshopping this one.)

"He said paying off debts was his only raisin d'être"

Re: How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart

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Post by lelanthran »

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #111
ramesh31 wrote: post #100

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It's funny that marijuana advocates wasted decades pleading their case under the guise of personal freedom, social equity, compassionate use, and the like. Turns out all it took to convince the right was showing them the money.

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> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable

There might be a nuance that I'm missing; are they talking about the physical act (which should remain as illegal and socially unacceptable as it now is), or the sexual orientation which is typically also labelled the same?

Because society has already decided that who a person is sexually attracted to is not a choice, so it's a dangerous path to be on if we are going to punish people for something that we already decided that they have no control over.

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Post by raspberry1337 »

hilbertseries wrote: post #122
zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #111

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> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable - they are just misunderstood people that see beyond age or something like that There have been people floating these ideas for decades. It’s not catching on now.

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Re: How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart

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Post by eigen »

jjulius wrote: post #107
encryptluks2 wrote: post #43

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Where? I live in Portland and would love to try a $20 ounce.

Seconded. I'm not gonna argue that it's not cheap here, but $20 for an ounce is way too low to be true. Unless, of course, it's far worse than "Jesus incarnate".

looking at weedmaps, there are a few places with 1 oz in the $20s.

$25 FA Ranch Mangolicious at Electric Lettuce [1]

$28 Blueberry Muffin at Floyd's Fine Cannabis [2]

if you're willing to travel, $20.83 Pineapple Upsidedown Cake at THClear [3]

[1] https://weedmaps.com/dispensaries/electric-lettuce-northeast...

[2] https://weedmaps.com/dispensaries/floyd-s-fine-cannabis-on-w...

[3] https://weedmaps.com/dispensaries/thclear-lebanon/menu/park-...

Re: How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart

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Post by kuhewa »

monocasa wrote: post #97
loeg wrote: post #86

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You think bulk growers are making significantly more than $500 a lb? $30/g was fictional even before legalization.

I've been out of the game for a little bit, but bulk rates for black market weed was about $1000/lb a few years after legalization in CO.

That jibes with the $500 per plant figure and the other fellow's 'could get 1 lb+ off a single humongous plant' figure, typical yield is closer to 1/2 lb.

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Post by tfehring »

nickthegreek wrote: post #25
pixl97 wrote: post #19

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I mean $100 for 2 ounces of the marijuana plant in particular isn't cheap at all. There are some 'mild' complications in growing it, but in theory it should end up more like a bulk farming product where we talk about dollars per pound on the retail side, and dollars per ton on the wholesale side.

Wild to not consider that cheap! In Ohio, with a med card, you will pay over $300 for 1.

It's cheap for weed, but expensive for a relatively high-volume part of a relatively easy-to-grow plant. Imagine seeing an $800/pound price tag in the produce section of your grocery store.
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