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NEGT1 · 09-27-2014, 03:00 PM

Full blown retail with regulation and tax similar to alcohol, or something closer to farmers markets?

MJPassion · 10-02-2014, 04:22 PM

What's your real question?

Both options include retail, tax & regulation.

I've never been to a farmer's market that was not in some way regulated.

Why not shoot for purely legal cannabis, such that all laws are stricken from the books.

You know... Legalize freedom of choice.

Croptober · 10-02-2014, 05:13 PM

I would assume this is a MMJ farmers market. Would you go to Albertson and buy 5 bananas for $5 + tax or go to the farmers market and get 10 bananas for you $5? That's how I thought of it reading your question.

HenDokuYaku · 10-02-2014, 05:56 PM

Except in Cali the grocery stores are well cheaper than the farmer's markets are, at least in SoCal.

Croptober · 10-02-2014, 06:02 PM

Not the ones we have over here, I get better deals on fruits and vegetables compared to the grocery store.

NEGT1 · 10-03-2014, 04:14 AM

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Originally Posted by HenDokuYaku

Except in Cali the grocery stores are well cheaper than the farmer's markets are, at least in SoCal.

That's not uncommon. Which is why I asked this.

NEGT1 · 10-03-2014, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by MJPassion

What's your real question?

Both options include retail, tax & regulation.

I've never been to a farmer's market that was not in some way regulated.

Why not shoot for purely legal cannabis, such that all laws are stricken from the books.

You know... Legalize freedom of choice.

I'm honestly struggling to even understand what you mean by this...

Freedom of choice...What the hell does that have to do with what I asked. Do you presume consumers don't want regulation? Regulation is testing and log keeping...You don't think consumers appreciate that?

m314 · 10-03-2014, 05:59 AM

I'd like to see a cannabis market with complete and total freedom for all adults. No taxes or government regulation at all. High taxes and strict regulation seem to be the only way forward, though. I'll support taxes and regulation if that's the way to end prohibition.

NEGT1 · 10-03-2014, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by m314

I'd like to see a cannabis market with complete and total freedom for all adults. No taxes or government regulation at all. High taxes and strict regulation seem to be the only way forward, though. I'll support taxes and regulation if that's the way to end prohibition.

I can promise you that taxation and regulation is the only way to end prohibition. And that's not a bad thing if the tax and regulation is reasonable.

The idea that it should be an open market with no regulation stems from growers who don't want to comply with regulation, from what I can tell anyways. This self righteousness in deserving x amount of money for growing a plant seems....odd.

All of that aside, I'm more concerned about what consumers want opposed to what producers want.

This is going to differ regionally, and even within those regions there will be differences in rural areas v a city.

bigmotaman48 · 10-04-2014, 05:19 PM

Grown in the Sacramento Valley and sold At
Safeway for 3 to 5 dollars and ounce , put it right next to the coffee .

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m314 IC Mag Supporter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: California Posts: 2,784	I'd like to see a cannabis market with complete and total freedom for all adults. No taxes or government regulation at all. High taxes and strict regulation seem to be the only way forward, though. I'll support taxes and regulation if that's the way to end prohibition.
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bigmotaman48 Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 158	Grown in the Sacramento Valley and sold At Safeway for 3 to 5 dollars and ounce , put it right next to the coffee .
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