Lol, Denver Newspaper to hire a "Marijuana Critic"

[digitaldivas]

http://cbs4denver.com/local/medical....2.1260104.html

[cherrylula]

yep, medical marijuana biz is booming.

[fatfoo]

Sure, why not. Popular issue needs a critic. If people are allowed to buy marijuana, they might as well make articles about different kinds of marijuana and what effect they have.

[brassmonkey]

those will be some interesting stories fuckin hippies den

[Bill8]

"$130 an ounce".

Typical - media is so used to lying about drug numbers they can't get it right even in a "pro" article.

[_Richard_]

$130 an ounce? fairly cheap, if i had to hazard a guess..

[Fletch XXX]

130 quarters maybe

[After Shock Media]

Originally Posted by fatfoo

Sure, why not. Popular issue needs a critic. If people are allowed to buy marijuana, they might as well make articles about different kinds of marijuana and what effect they have.

Then one would hope that they are hiring and staffing a scientist and a lab.
Face it, it is just a silly way to gather some reverse psychological stigma by giving it reviews like by wine a restaurant critics - who typically suck balls anyways.

Originally Posted by Bill8

"$130 an ounce".

Typical - media is so used to lying about drug numbers they can't get it right even in a "pro" article.

The media rarely needs to lie about the value of drugs or pot.
Not to burst any bubbles but if you get busted with 10 pounds of pot, that equals value of 35k to 50k (give or take a factor of up to 1.5 times) depending on what area of the country the bust takes place in.
Reason behind the prices is the DEA sets street values. They dictate that a pound goes for anywhere from 3,500 to 5,000 on the street. There is no wholesale breakdowns or at what level the bust happens. They also have math formulas to get a street value per plant based on indoor and outdoor - with the obvious flaw in the initial report where it is just total number of estimated plants x estimated plant value (before males are removed).

Now if your going to be charged thirty five hundred a pound legally, sure as shit you wont sell it for less. Unless well you have special reasons - like supplying the sick.

$130.00 an ounce is not technically cheap. Just cheap versus street values. It can be produced for a large fraction less than that without even going into mass farming. Often just the local law enforcement will ask clubs to try to keep costs roughly close to street value (seriously they do) - which I personally said fuck it when I ran our club. We had pot as low as three bucks per gram. So as a fun side note the more clinics that open the quicker prices will drop to what they are worth. This alone can and will either choke off the illegal dealers via risk versus reward or they will try to compete in same industry and I hope we do not see any attempts at price collusion or other illegal tactics such as strong arm or old school protection rackets.

[brassmonkey]

damn thats a suckers price

[JFK]

those people must be high

[luv$]

Denver here I come.

[BVF]

I just bought an ounce of midgrade here for 100....It does the trick and I can smoke all day every day.

[Bill8]

Originally Posted by After Shock Media

with the obvious flaw in the initial report where it is just total number of estimated plants x estimated plant value (before males are removed).

This was the only thing in your screed that made sense. Media constantly inflates values of plants to foster sensationalism and a moral outrage based on pure fiction. And, to comment on your packaged drugs claim, maybe media doesn't inflate the prices of packaged drugs where you live, but they sure fucking do where I live.

So, how about we see some photos of these wonderful $130 ounces - surely there has to be a sign, right, in the dispensary, pointing at a jar of buds, saying "$130 oz".

And if the $130 ounce is the expensive one, lets see the photos of the comparitively cheap $100 ounce.

Maybe I'm completely wrong, and the prices in the dispensaries are a quarter of what they are in the black market. Lets hear it from the dispensary buyers - show us your $130 ounces.

[NickPapageorgio]

$130 Oz. here in NC is garbage. I have to pay up to $20 a gram for good headies. Vs. the alternative, I'll pay the $20 a gram price. My lungs can't take schwag anymore.

[cherrylula]

I know there are a few dispensaries in LA selling $30 1/8ths of house weed, but $130 sounds pretty cheap for an ounce.

[After Shock Media]

Originally Posted by Bill8

This was the only thing in your screed that made sense. Media constantly inflates values of plants to foster sensationalism and a moral outrage based on pure fiction. And, to comment on your packaged drugs claim, maybe media doesn't inflate the prices of packaged drugs where you live, but they sure fucking do where I live.

So, how about we see some photos of these wonderful $130 ounces - surely there has to be a sign, right, in the dispensary, pointing at a jar of buds, saying "$130 oz".

And if the $130 ounce is the expensive one, lets see the photos of the comparitively cheap $100 ounce.

Maybe I'm completely wrong, and the prices in the dispensaries are a quarter of what they are in the black market. Lets hear it from the dispensary buyers - show us your $130 ounces.

A lot is just whom you ask. Remember how most of the laws were written. Many places work like a CSA farm (I think that is the correct initials, where a farm splits up the crop into owner shares. You are paying for your chunk of the land). Aside from the CSA/caregiver aspect you also have some places where it is either heavily discounted or free of charge based on the patient. Yes sometimes cash paying buyers subsidize very low income sick people.

A major example in CA is that (outside of LA at least), you can just pay production value plus a small surcharge to your caregiver (assigned grower). You also have many offsetting any additional costs by working at the club doing their share of volunteer work.

No matter how you get there 130 would not be uncommon. I am not a know all, be all authority on this crap. I just was very involved, ran a co-op for some time or up until I was brought down by the government.

[digitaldivas]

Originally Posted by luv$

Denver here I come.

Yeah, it's pretty much legal here. The mayor dropped the fine for under an ounce to a one dollar fine you can pay online. Also the police don't even confiscate anymore. After they got sued from people with licenses. But Denver is still a fucking cowtown.

If you want to read the article about the dollar fine,
http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=122082

[digitaldivas]

Originally Posted by cherrylula

I know there are a few dispensaries in LA selling $30 1/8ths of house weed, but $130 sounds pretty cheap for an ounce.

$130 bucks gives you a selection of Colo grown kind bud, which is not too bad.

200.00 an oz and you can get flavors like rocky mountain blueberry buds, north afghan kush or northern lights, yada, yada.

Also 300 and 400 an oz for super concentrated thc bud with exotic names that look like they will just fuck you the hell up, and are pre shredded for vaporizers

[Bill8]

Let's see the pics.

There must be a price list somebody can drop on a scanner.

How about a website with prices?

I know about the co-ops, but those don't really count. People talk about going to the dispensary, not about participating in a co-op.

Altho, if it's a co-op running the dispensary named, the "Capitol Hill Medicine Shoppe", sombebody seems to have left that out of the info.

review says: Raw marijuana price range: $98-$108 for a 1/4 ounce

That sounds about right - city prices, several steps removed from the grower.

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword...capitol_hi.php


Mile Highs and Lows: Capitol Hill Medicine Shoppe
By Mae Coleman in Marijuana
Thu., Oct. 15 2009 @ 12:52PM

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Photos by Robert Fisher
​As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind these unusual operations' locked doors in "Mile Highs and Lows," a regular online review of dispensaries around the metro area and beyond. (You can also search Westword's directory of dispensaries for one near you).

This week's review: Capitol Hill Medicine Shoppe. See our review after the jump.

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​Capitol Hill Medicine Shoppe
1410 Grant Street, #B-104
Denver, Colorado 80204
www.capitalhillmedicineshoppe.com
303-993-5777

Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday -Friday; closed weekends
Size: 1,100 square feet
Date opened: July 1, 2009
Clients: 100 registered patients, about 400 consistent customers
Patient services: Handicap accessible; delivery service available
Must customers make the dispensary their designated caregiver:
Raw marijuana price range: $98-$108 for a 1/4 ounce
Other types of medicine: Edibles, hash, tinctures, balms, lotions, clones

Our take: Some people might consider it a bit uncouth that Capitol Hill Medicine Shoppe, true to its name, hung its shingle a stone's throw from the hallowed gold dome of the state capitol. Then again, this dispensary might've found the perfect spot. Considering all the budget woes and political bickering besetting our elected officials these days, surely more than a few of them could use the relaxing effects of what the dispensary has to offer.

[$5 submissions]

Ed Rosenthal is the MAN for this. Any reader of HT would know his creds.

[Alf Hucker]

People still pay for weed?

[Crunked]

I wish they would legalize it in Florida especially with all these old cancer patients.