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

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Post by xyhopguy » Mon, Aug 09, 2021, 3:27 PM UTC

effingwewt wrote: post #194

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its not hard to get top shelf ounces for $100-140 in oregon...

It very much is from dispensaries, which is what is being discussed. And this does happen everywhere, where prices in dispensaries 'miraculously align' right down to the daily/weekly specials etc. What should be happening is the price going down as shops compete with each other for business- which, incidentally, they all did ~10 years ago. That also miraculously stopped at all shops simultaneously. So it's definitely…

I have no idea where you guys are seeing these prices. Chalice, on the absolute high end that I've seen, tops out at 250/oz.

Nectar/Green Cross are my gotos, both of them are well below the prices yall are discussing. Green cross in particular has better stuff than the other venues as well. Maybe try shopping in Salem instead of Portland? Dunno, I never go into the city for weed.

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

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Post by Talanes » Mon, Aug 09, 2021, 7:00 PM UTC

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>3yr margin, common sense I cannot guess ages with anywhere near that precision. In California the usual standard is if you look under 30.

Fair enough, but I closer 50 than 30, and look so, and the same girl did the next thing the next night, it was a store near an out of town Airbnb so I doubt my first interaction was forgetton

Could she have been under 21? I remember when I spent a summer working grocery that my under-21 coworkers were required to id on all alcohol purchases.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 09, 2021, 7:36 PM UTC

xyhopguy wrote: post #219

tenfourwookie wrote: post #210

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Retail? No way. Unless you're talking about those 1 oz vacuum bags of burnt yellow-green bud that appears to have been grown in a hydroponic stew for $100/ (hoboweed; spray-painted hemp :D), I haven't seen prices remotely close to that. Not even quality halves at that price. Not even in Colorado, and Colorado is the best bang for your $ in the USA. *Fall harvest prices might dip that low.

i mean this is verifiably wrong: try this place in salem, really nice stuff and great prices. "Reserve" is their top-of-the-plant pickings that go for $160 oz. Not a big difference between their bulk (75-100) and reserve. https://www.greencrosscanna.com/commercial-street

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

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Post by tenfourwookie » Mon, Aug 09, 2021, 7:47 PM UTC

xyhopguy wrote: post #219

tenfourwookie wrote: post #210

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Retail? No way. Unless you're talking about those 1 oz vacuum bags of burnt yellow-green bud that appears to have been grown in a hydroponic stew for $100/ (hoboweed; spray-painted hemp :D), I haven't seen prices remotely close to that. Not even quality halves at that price. Not even in Colorado, and Colorado is the best bang for your $ in the USA. *Fall harvest prices might dip that low.

i mean this is verifiably wrong: try this place in salem, really nice stuff and great prices. "Reserve" is their top-of-the-plant pickings that go for $160 oz. Not a big difference between their bulk (75-100) and reserve. https://www.greencrosscanna.com/commercial-street

There's a Green Cross branch in Bend and the prices are what you say they are. Low to mid-weights mostly, however.

I think I went into this shop and it was all prepackaged and jarred like Cali is now. Like visiting a Walgreens, so I walked out. Not sure if it was this place. I'll visit again.

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

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Post by tenfourwookie » Mon, Aug 09, 2021, 7:48 PM UTC

xyhopguy wrote: post #220

tenfourwookie wrote: post #208

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I didn't want to respond to the $100 ounce comment because I haven't hit Portland or other larger cities, but I have to agree with you. I can't find even 1/2 ounces for $100. There are shops in Bend selling $75 eighths. It's greed. It's collusion. I don't believe the “No one's making any money” nonsense in the media. We're not making any money, but look at that $156,000 Mercedes SUV parked outside in the reserved spo…

go to greencross in bend, they have the exact prices i'm referring to. Dont go to the stores that purchase from bulk retailers, shops that have their own farms typically have higher quality and lower prices.

Will do. Did go to str8fyre the other day and was impressed with price/quality, but Green Cross is far cheaper if the website is indicative.

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

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Post by tenfourwookie » Mon, Aug 09, 2021, 8:38 PM UTC

effingwewt wrote: post #215

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I didn't want to respond to the $100 ounce comment because I haven't hit Portland or other larger cities, but I have to agree with you. I can't find even 1/2 ounces for $100. There are shops in Bend selling $75 eighths. It's greed. It's collusion. I don't believe the “No one's making any money” nonsense in the media. We're not making any money, but look at that $156,000 Mercedes SUV parked outside in the reserved spo…

Want to know something more messed up? In Oregon/Washington the workers, even in the grow ops, are making minimum wage. I could not believe it, even the extract runners. In Cali, at least where I'm at, most pay with weed only . None of the workers on the west coast are classified as real workers and as such don't qualify for benefits, and they also enjoy the prospect of being raided at any given time as it's still fe…

I absolutely would not want to be a security AV guy for anything in the pot industry. You'd be the first one they'd pop come reckoning time.

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

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Post by xyhopguy » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 1:50 AM UTC

tenfourwookie wrote: post #224

xyhopguy wrote: post #219

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i mean this is verifiably wrong: try this place in salem, really nice stuff and great prices. "Reserve" is their top-of-the-plant pickings that go for $160 oz. Not a big difference between their bulk (75-100) and reserve. https://www.greencrosscanna.com/commercial-street

There's a Green Cross branch in Bend and the prices are what you say they are. Low to mid-weights mostly, however. I think I went into this shop and it was all prepackaged and jarred like Cali is now. Like visiting a Walgreens, so I walked out. Not sure if it was this place. I'll visit again.

Weird, it's all bulk in Salem.