Colorado MMJ License ?'s

[Feijao]

Tripsick what would recommend changing about caregiver law to make it better? I think removing plant and weight limits would be the best thing. With the limits the way they are its very hard to make enough medicine for your patients and that's not to mention the different strains they might need. Some caregivers charge higher prices so that they are able to give a certain amount of terminal or poor patients free meds each week. And if caregivers charge less than street price they are blamed on being suppliers to drug dealers.

I think the only way to make this work would be to work with others that have your same goals in mind. A compassionate dispensary working with a greedy vendor doesn't work due to numbers. A compassionate vendor working with a greedy dispensary doesn't work either.

 

[Tripsick]

Tripsick what would recommend changing about caregiver law to make it better? I think removing plant and weight limits would be the best thing. With the limits the way they are its very hard to make enough medicine for your patients and that's not to mention the different strains they might need. Some caregivers charge higher prices so that they are able to give a certain amount of terminal or poor patients free meds each week. And if caregivers charge less than street price they are blamed on being suppliers to drug dealers.

I think the only way to make this work would be to work with others that have your same goals in mind. A compassionate dispensary working with a greedy vendor doesn't work due to numbers. A compassionate vendor working with a greedy dispensary doesn't work either.

Yes they need to remove Plant limits but supplying drug dealers? really do you think they pay close to street price? do you think there is any profit in 400z? or even 325.00 z?
50.00 for top quality is a fair price for 1/8th.

The gold rush is on i cant blame people for the desire to make money. but not off the sick. Sell that shit on the street like most of them do for a reasonable price.

there are 60 Dispensaries in Denver now these people do not want to help they want to make money and lots of it.

No caregivers or the caregivers grow in the persons house for them and they can pay the caregiver if needed but no weed for the caregiver unless they are a card holder for a sickness as well.

even better Co-Op it and trade it out and for the ones that cant grow or even attend well then there is a donation area and everyone gives a little to enter the co-op and that is dispensed to terminal people that cannot grow for themselves. The one that do not want to grow for themselves will need to pay a fee that can go to nutes and what not that is distributed to grower to help with cost. Filters and meeting space... im sure this can be refinded but anything is better than the current setup.

Trade out Flowers Clones Food all of it.
and then Teach others this skill and hope one day the Feds give in.

 

[Feijao]

I didn't realize that you thought $50 is a good price. I agree and think that a lot of these companies could still make plenty of money off the $50 price point if they wanted to. I was thinking of even lower prices like $35 - $40 1/8th, $250 - $280 ounces. Sorry for the confusion. At those prices I can see there being some stuff taken off the med market and being introduced to the black market. I guess that burden would be on the patient that did that though and not the dispensary that is trying to help.

To help work on prices that might make a low priced dispensary work does anyone have any idea how many pounds a popular dispensary moves a day or month?

 

[Absolut]

When I become a caregiver, I'm going to charge less than the 'black market' rate.

Making money is not really a priority for me. Growing quality organic product and providing a sometimes necessary service for the ailing is much more important for me. If I break even, paying off my bills, equipment, etc. I'll be a happy man.

Hell just the experience and the privilege to be a part of something like this is priceless to me.

 

[milehighmedical]

It costs something like a $1.50 to grow an eighth? $400 a pound, depending. Anything much over $5 an eighth and you're making some lucrative profit. Just something to thiiink about...

 

[Pythagllio]

You're definitely forgetting some expenses in your calculation, or you know magic. Lay out your budget and show me how to get my expenses down to $12 an ounce and I'll worship you as a god.

 

[Tripsick]

Yeah i just hate seeing the price higher than a street dealer.

 

[Feijao]

I dont think that there is any reason for prices to be any higher than street prices to be honest. Even factoring in all the over head of a delivery service or dispensary. Having no idea what these services sale in a given time period makes it very hard to figure out what you would have to charge to make things work. Anyone have any idea what amounts these guys move in a given amount of time?

"It costs something like a $1.50 to grow an eighth? $400 a pound, depending. Anything much over $5 an eighth and you're making some lucrative profit. Just something to thiiink about..."


Even if you could produce decent weed at $12 you sure would have to move a lot of it to pay overhead and have anything left at all for your time.

$1.50 X 128 = $192
$5 X 128 = $640
profit = $448

Lets see.... 1 pound to retain lawyer, 4 pounds for rent, 1 pound for utilities, 1 pound insurance, 2 employees would be about 6 pounds a month.... pounds really starting adding up at that price point even if you could produce it for that amount. I guess lucrative means different things to different people.

 

[Tripsick]

Last placed served more than 100 people per day.

Lets just guess they move 10 lbs a week

if they are buying it at 4g a lb they are selling it for 8g a lb

if they are growing it and selling it for 6g a lb they are making a fortune.

Half of these places get the same Meds all around the same time so you know they are buying from a vendor and jacking up the price.

1000 ppl per week buying only 1 gram each is 2 lbs per week and thats only if they buy 1 gram...
you want the people buying 1 gram each so you can nickel and dime them to death..

LoL i would sell 17 dollar grams all week long for 17g per week for me and my grow op and a few guys that like to adjust peoples attitudes.

Some place as high as 30 a gram... they must want to buy a new car once a week.

 

[RAGGA MON]

if you dont grow your own...then you pay to play!
we want mmj to become as mainstream as possible, and when it does we complain. its retail people!! no matter how you look at it shopping at a dispensary is the same as buying your coffee at starbucks....expensive!
if people are paying the prices then why should it change!
people that say its highway robbery should grow there own and sell $5 eighths and $50 ounces and see how long that lasts.......its a great thought but impossible reality. im not here to piss on any parade but shit these
people (dispensaries) are doing it and ones that complain are not, and until you do, you have no room to complain.
and remember its still ILLEGAL!! whats your price for personal freedom?

 

[Feijao]

What would you think is the most purchased amount per visit? Gram, 1/8th, 1/4th, 1/2 etc... Also do these places really see more than 100 people a day?

 

[Tripsick]

What would you think is the most purchased amount per visit? Gram, 1/8th, 1/4th, 1/2 etc... Also do these places really see more than 100 people a day?

i see people buy 1 oz at a time of G.D.P. for 460. and some buy multiple 8th and a lot buy 3 to 4 grams of meds 1 gram strains.
i bet the average person spends 70.00 a visit

 

[IGrowTrees]

when I go to green mtn. on the 2nd...I'm buying at least a ZIP

 

[BiG H3rB Tr3E]

Caregiver = someone who wants to help someone.

Drug Dealer = someone who want to take advantage of someone for profit.

I hope they change the caregiver laws some most of these Drug Dealers go away.
If you sell it for more than street you are a drug dealer.

Yup, than as soon as it is lower than street value they will accuse you of selling to patients for re-sale. You can never make everyone happy, so you might as well just try and make your patients happy.....

 

[smokesalot420]

Yup, than as soon as it is lower than street value they will accuse you of selling to patients for re-sale. You can never make everyone happy, so you might as well just try and make your patients happy.....

I think that straw man arguement makes people who charge a lot feel better......


I agree with Absolut; That is how I act myself...

 

[milehighmedical]

A zip per visit? Wow, I get a gram... maybe a couple. I go at least a few times a week. I like to spread my money out over a variety and frequent a lot of places. Enjoy the diversity of herb that's being grown around here. I guess some people have to travel to get to a good dispensary, I can understand that. I'd be getting my two ounce limit if I had to drive an hour to go to a dispensary.

 

[GreenMtnCare]

Make sure you let us know you are from IC when you come in. We will see to it that you get treated right.
Mike

when I go to green mtn. on the 2nd...I'm buying at least a ZIP

 

[Spacecadet01]

Make sure you let us know you are from IC when you come in. We will see to it that you get treated right.
Mike

do we recieve any discount on a doc recommendation if we say were from IC?

 

[dc2bar]

do we recieve any discount on a doc recommendation if we say were from IC?

that'd be nice. If you were offering something like that i'd be bringing my 29 page medical record up in a week or so haha.

 

[SpacedCWBY]

Make sure you let us know you are from IC when you come in. We will see to it that you get treated right.
Mike

Got the wife turned around again - CO here we come, late December...

Anyhoo, in response to Mike - It will sure be nice to be able to come out and let someone know who Spaced really is without the fear of being ass raped by bubba in the cell. It's hillarious - I've got buddies who say they're on IC and have a few plants going here and there but they're all so fuggin' clueless. But, following the golden rules, I can't admit to them that I do what I do. Crazy... But overall, a coming out will be nice, can't wait.