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Wow.
A Dr. who is supposed to be a scientist finally rejects bias and mythology for peer reviewed science studies that might take 2 minutes to find.
Roll out the red carpets.
I'm inclined to go with Skip's conjecture because whenever big money is on the table, there WILL be those with the proper connections to limit your ability to access some of it and indeed make you a contributor to it.
Watch for new legislation to limit THC content and/or "unregulated" production. The wild west didn't stay that way. The cattle barons always brought a Marshall to town.
A Dr. who is supposed to be a scientist finally rejects bias and mythology for peer reviewed science studies that might take 2 minutes to find.
Roll out the red carpets.
I'm inclined to go with Skip's conjecture because whenever big money is on the table, there WILL be those with the proper connections to limit your ability to access some of it and indeed make you a contributor to it.
Watch for new legislation to limit THC content and/or "unregulated" production. The wild west didn't stay that way. The cattle barons always brought a Marshall to town.
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Neither am I. OTOH, it required a broad coalition of interests to achieve legalization here in Colorado, business being a part of it.
If weed were completely legal, there'd be very little money in it at all.
If the black market has taught us anything at all, it's that weed can be priced at whatever the market will bear rather than being relative to the price of production & distribution. Govt & big money interest will attempt to exploit that.
The only thing keeping them honest at all are the personal growing provisions of A64, something that only a vote of the people can undo.
Leo's no longer have many of the tools used to bust small growers. The smell of pot either smoked or growing is no longer grounds for a search warrant in Colorado, because doing both is, in fact, legal as far as State authorities are concerned. They really can't tell how many plants a person might have except with a warrant, and they have no grounds to get one other than actual buys or informant testimony backed with other evidence.
The smart answer is to stay Colorado legal, just in case, no matter how stupid one thinks it is or how badly one might want to do otherwise. So far, experience with Colorado plant limits indicates that you need to be very stoned all the time or have a bunch of people helping to run out between harvests. YMMV, of course.
Mostly true, except when citizen initiatives are written well enough to box them in, as with Colorado's A64.
The personal growing provisions left prohibition snake bit in this state. She's dead, Jim, even if the bitch is still twitching a little bit.
If the black market has taught us anything at all, it's that weed can be priced at whatever the market will bear rather than being relative to the price of production & distribution. Govt & big money interest will attempt to exploit that.
This is what a free market does.
The market without unnecessary regulation to favor
big money producers who can afford to comply to crowd out the small producers or govt. subsidy for the same.
The price of production and distribution only comes into play when there is healthy competition that always tend to lower the margins for pricing.
All things being equal, the lower price will prevail thereby increasing market share.
This can be bypassed by spending considerable sums on advertising and branding to create customer loyalty which may offset pricing tolerances for perceived value.
Dirty Joes Organic Headies = $$$$
VS.
Dirty Joes Schwag = $$
iPhones @ $600.00 have no relationship to production costs. It's what the market will bear before a competitor undercuts the price to a more realistic profit margin level.
Selling sizzle and not steak.
This is what a free market does.
The market without unnecessary regulation to favor
big money producers who can afford to comply to crowd out the small producers or govt. subsidy for the same.
The price of production and distribution only comes into play when there is healthy competition that always tend to lower the margins for pricing.
All things being equal, the lower price will prevail thereby increasing market share.
This can be bypassed by spending considerable sums on advertising and branding to create customer loyalty which may offset pricing tolerances for perceived value.
Dirty Joes Organic Headies = $$$$
VS.
Dirty Joes Schwag = $$
iPhones @ $600.00 have no relationship to production costs. It's what the market will bear before a competitor undercuts the price to a more realistic profit margin level.
Selling sizzle and not steak.
Blue Socks
Member
Gupta is full of shit!
