Dispensary questions?.....

[maxxim]

Just had a few Q`s about the dispensaries in Cali....

1. Where do they get their weed? Is it all grown in Cali? are they selling Mexican brick smuggled across the border?

2. How much product do you suppose they go through in a given month?

3. How many people do they employ on average?

 

[Hydro-Soil]

Just had a few Q`s about the dispensaries in Cali....

1. Where do they get their weed? are they selling Mexican brick smuggled across the border?

ROTFLMAO! I'd like to know the moron that started that one. I've seen schwag/brickweed in a crappy dispensary or two but it was by no means the majority of what was available. I won't touch it and neither will any other patient that's had decent quality meds for a few months solid.
High quality cannabis goes OUT of California to other states, not in from Mexico/Canada to the dispensaries. So ridiculous!

2. How much product do you suppose they go through in a given month?

Dispensaries?
Depends on their patient base. I go through an ounce a month and that's on restricted rations 'cause I can't afford to buy the half pound I should be using. I would much rather be eating it than smoking/vaping it.
Other people only need a few grams a month.
Some dispensaries have thousands of patients, how many people use the Rite-Aid down the block from you for prescriptions?

3. How many people do they employ on average?

Most dispensaries I've been in have an average of 2-4 employees in there when I'm there. That's just what I've noticed.

 

[resin_lung]

"ROTFLMAO! I'd like to know the moron that started that one. I've seen schwag/brickweed in a crappy dispensary or two but it was by no means the majority of what was available. I won't touch it and neither will any other patient that's had decent quality meds for a few months solid.
High quality cannabis goes OUT of California to other states, not in from Mexico/Canada to the dispensaries. So ridiculous!"

I agree 1000% Its grown in cali by me!

"Most dispensaries I've been in have an average of 2-4 employees in there when I'm there. That's just what I've noticed."

me too, except for NNCC!! They got like 15-20? LOL

hard to say how much they go through. There's small dispensaries , buzy ones and every thing in between.

 

[maxxim]

How does a dispensary skirt around where they obtain their pot since it only goes to reason that at least some if not all of it could or would be obtained from criminals or organized crime.

That has to have come up already right?

 

[kmk420kali]

They buy from Vendors-- Those are Patients with access to larger quantities--
As long as they are dealing with ppl who have valid scripts, they are ok--
I will admit that my experience with this is a few years old, since the one I worked at got closed...so with how it is now with the Collective thing, I would expect that each vendor must join their Collective, then it is still a closed loop thing--
The only time I have seen mids at one, was being sold for Butter or Bubble hash...never seen schwag--

 

[resin_lung]

maxxim- not sure what you mean by "criminals" or "organized crime". The feds think I'm a criminal I guess. And I've worked with some people who the feds would also call criminals. And we kept our grows very clean and organized. could you be a little more specific.

 

[Hydro-Soil]

maxxim- not sure what you mean by "criminals" or "organized crime". The feds think I'm a criminal I guess. And I've worked with some people who the feds would also call criminals. And we kept our grows very clean and organized. could you be a little more specific.

I think Maxxim was educated by the wrong people. That's all.

When your opinions are based on the wrong information....... Well, I can't hold it against ya as I can't say I wasn't ever there myself.

 

[Blue Dot]

could you be a little more specific.

i think maxxim means that there's just no way a single patient as part of a collective could supply the needed weight to a dispensary when all they have access to is to grow in their closet or their garage.

IOW, the weight must be coming from an organized bunch that has the resources to rent out and secure a warehouse/greenhouse type facility.

I mean the front man can claim they are just a patient like all the rest but obviously crush the competition (the other single patients) with their resources.

I'm suprised many people find maxxims question peculiar in that I would have assumed you would have all concluded that it was a given. I mean how else could it not be?

 

[resin_lung]

I do think it is a given but don't necessarily consider them to be criminals or part of a criminal organization I guess.

 

[Blue Dot]

I do think it is a given but don't necessarily consider them to be criminals or part of a criminal organization I guess.

I don't think it's that much of a stretch to believe that the mob saw an opening with the passage of 215 and decided to run with it.

It's like what you are saying is, well yes the mob is bad and are criminal (when they are not growing) but if they grow under the guise of 215 then that's ok?

 

[Hydro-Soil]

It's like what you are saying is, well yes the mob is bad and are criminal (when they are not growing) but if they grow under the guise of 215 then that's ok?

Well, going legit is good I guess.

The problem is that there isn't any way to control quality like other produce of lettuce and whatnot. When people are in the business to make money.... patients suffer.

Support the California Cannabis Initiative 2010 and help all that go away. Proper quality standards for commercial meds and the patients and personal growers are left alone. Sign up now, gathering signatures starts in Sept!

 

[resin_lung]

"the mob". what Mob? The mexican cartels, the Italians, the russians?

 

[FreedomFGHTR]

Just had a few Q`s about the dispensaries in Cali....

1. Where do they get their weed? Is it all grown in Cali? are they selling Mexican brick smuggled across the border?

Nah our stuff comes from China. You know labor is cheap there! It comes over smuggled in peoples ears.

2. How much product do you suppose they go through in a given month?

2 grams.

3. How many people do they employ on average?

If you include the chinese slaves err... farmers, 5,000.

 

[Blue Dot]

"the mob". what Mob? The mexican cartels, the Italians, the russians?

all of the above

 

[maxxim]

"the mob". what Mob? The mexican cartels, the Italians, the russians?

I`m talking about the 1000`s of plants that are in the cali mountains that we see on the news every other week. Is it a lie that there are armed gunmen guarding their crops in your forests?

Your going to tell me that the some of the money the dispensaries pay for their pot dosen`t end up in a criminals hand? I know its a stretch to say that criminals, guns, and drugs go hand in hand but seriously.....

The problem is that there isn't any way to control quality like other produce of lettuce and whatnot.

Untrue... The dispensaries should be overseeing quality control and reject stocking an inferior product. And if you want kobe beef then you`ll pay kobe prices....
As other have posted they don`t see the crap at the shops so I would figure quality control is not as much a problem as compared to the prices.

Which seamlessly leade to the next Q..... Since there are 600 shops in just LA what are the effects on prices? have they been dropping or staying the same because it allways looks like the stuff in cali is way over priced like $100+ quarters....

 

[Blue Dot]

Which seamlessly leade to the next Q..... Since there are 600 shops in just LA what are the effects on prices? have they been dropping or staying the same because it allways looks like the stuff in cali is way over priced like $100+ quarters....

Prices don't drop until supply outweighs demand. Simple economics.

What a lot of politicians have a hard time believing is that THAT many people smoke pot.

600 dispensaries and they STILL cannot fullfill demand!

Maybe at like 2000 dispensaries in LA and then supply and competition will force prices to go lower.

 

[DocLeaf]

How many dispensaries sell seeds ? (this is perhaps a rhetorical question).

 

[IGROWMYOWN]

Prices don't drop until supply outweighs demand. Simple economics.

What a lot of politicians have a hard time believing is that THAT many people smoke pot.

600 dispensaries and they STILL cannot fullfill demand!

Maybe at like 2000 dispensaries in LA and then supply and competition will force prices to go lower.

If you triple the amount of dispensaries wouldnt that hurt supply? unless of course the co-ops grow their own supply? seems like the co-ops are having a hard time keeping up now wouldnt growers jack up the price because of higher demand? Maybe im looking at it the wrong way im still half asleep/medicated.

 

[Hydro-Soil]

How many dispensaries sell seeds ? (this is perhaps a rhetorical question).

Not enough.

Many dispensaries don't like to offer the patients alternatives to the meds they're supplying. This is actually the wrong attitude because it keeps them where they're currently at. If anything, they should be encouraging their patients to become excellent growers so they can 'Increase' the amount of superior quality meds being available.

The strongest dispensaries with the best meds are mostly made up of a circle of patients that are awesome growers. Who would you rather get your meds from? Some schmoe that turns 400 plants as fast as possible for a profit? Personally I much prefer meds from patients that are keenly interested in supplying top quality meds.

 

[BigappleNugz]

tons of cali nuggs in colorado dispensaries now as well