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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.