Cannabis City!

[AZDuck]

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024022679_storesopen2xml.html

Cheers erupted from the crowd outside Cannabis City when Greene emerged and held her two paper bags aloft. She was the opening act in a low-key celebration that also featured City Attorney Pete Holmes buying two packages of OG’s Pearl, one for posterity and one, he said, for “personal enjoyment.”

While Tuesday was all about people joyously marking history, only five stores in the state opened. Operators of several others that had hoped to open said they couldn’t secure scarce supply, as most licensed growers haven’t yet harvested crops. “There are going to be bumps on the road as we veer away from the failed drug war,” Holmes said.

Not much can be concluded from the first weeks of legal sales in Washington, said former state pot consultant Mark Kleiman. “If you want to see what this is going to look like in real life, you have to wait until after the harvest,” said Kleiman, a UCLA professor and drug-policy expert.

Because the state has licensed only about one-quarter of the 2 million square feet it has allotted for farming, supply should remain short for a while and prices high. Inside Cannabis City Tuesday, pot was selling for $20 per gram, all taxes included.

Why the fuck is Warshington State weed metric? I always used to buy my weed (before I joined the military) in good American eighths of an ounce.

Where to Eat After You Go to Cannabis City, Seattle's Only Pot Store (not lemon party)

But the weed stores don't have any weed. Is this because Warshington is like Soviet Russia, where pot stores stone you?

Hopeful marijuana buyers started lining up outside Freedom Market in Kelso around noon Tuesday, the time the shop planned its grand opening. But by late evening, not a single gram had been sold.

Freedom Market still had no weed.

The 1½-pound shipment finally rolled in about 9 p.m., and employees scrambled to get the product counted and ready to sell to the line of customers by 9:20 p.m. They sold almost a pound by midnight, and by Wednesday afternoon were nearly sold out, employees said.

About a pound is expected to arrive Thursday morning, but with such high demand, it likely won’t last long. The store might not have enough weed to keep regular hours for a while, said owner Kathy Nelson.

“We’ll just have to roll with it until it levels out,” she said.

So, I guess everyone's still calling their dealers.

 

[Swaye]

'Murica!

 

[doogsinparadise]

You can buy in grams or quarters or whatever, who cares. Just call a delivery service, about the same price as black market. Weed stores will be epic failure as long as they're over regulated and 3x price of medical/delivery weed.

 

[PurpleJ]

Fuck "legal" weed. Fuck it. Nothing says pussified nanny state like a lottery system to determine who gets the right to sell overpriced bud to people stupid enough to pay for it.

I'll stay on the black market, thank you very much. Last I checked, I can get better weed for about $50-60 a quarter from homeboy's grow house.

 

[MikeDamone]

I think jokes about where you can satisfy your munchies after getting legal pot to be quite hilarious. Especially when I first saw Al Roker deliver one. LOL!L!L!L!!!!1

 

[MikeDamone]

I still can't figure out why anyone would but from a pot store. People who use it know where to get it and at a price they want to pay. Leave it to the state to fuck this thing up.

I remember talking to a friend who said it should be legalized and have the shit taxed out of it. I said I agreed it should be legal, but why tax the shit out of it? He said something about raising revenue for the state. So basically he didn't have a good answer, just repeating the party line without thinking it through.

A woman asked me to sign the petition to get it on the ballot. In her canned speech she mentioned if it is legal we could keep it out of the hands of kids. I rolled my eyes and asked if we would keep it out of kids hands the same way we do alcohol? She said, no, it would be much tougher to get.

The real answer to all of this is people just want to use it without getting in trouble. Every other reason is bullshit.

 

[PurpleJ]

I still can't figure out why anyone would but from a pot store. People who use it know where to get it and at a price they want to pay. Leave it to the state to fuck this thing up.

I remember talking to a friend who said it should be legalized and have the shit taxed out of it. I said I agreed it should be legal, but why tax the shit out of it? He said something about raising revenue for the state. So basically he didn't have a good answer, just repeating the party line without thinking it through.

Was it too difficult to just legalize it and put the normal (already too high) sales tax on it? FMFYFE.

The Laffer Curve is laffing right now.

 

[MikeDamone]

I still can't figure out why anyone would but from a pot store. People who use it know where to get it and at a price they want to pay. Leave it to the state to fuck this thing up.

I remember talking to a friend who said it should be legalized and have the shit taxed out of it. I said I agreed it should be legal, but why tax the shit out of it? He said something about raising revenue for the state. So basically he didn't have a good answer, just repeating the party line without thinking it through.

Was it too difficult to just legalize it and put the normal (already too high) sales tax on it? FMFYFE.

The Laffer Curve is laffing right now.

When the issue to privatize alcohol was voted on, I voted no after I read the fine print. What a fucked up piece of shit law that is. I'll just continue to go to the liquor store and not pay the ridiculous new tax rate thank you... But somehow it was sold as "privatizing sales will make it cheaper"...yes, it would, if the government go there greedy mitts out of it.

 

[PurpleJ]

They won't stay out, though. They do the same thing with tobacco, gasoline, and many other products. And we wonder why we need a living wage?

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

I still can't figure out why anyone would but from a pot store. People who use it know where to get it and at a price they want to pay. Leave it to the state to fuck this thing up.

I remember talking to a friend who said it should be legalized and have the shit taxed out of it. I said I agreed it should be legal, but why tax the shit out of it? He said something about raising revenue for the state. So basically he didn't have a good answer, just repeating the party line without thinking it through.

A woman asked me to sign the petition to get it on the ballot. In her canned speech she mentioned if it is legal we could keep it out of the hands of kids. I rolled my eyes and asked if we would keep it out of kids hands the same way we do alcohol? She said, no, it would be much tougher to get.

The real answer to all of this is people just want to use it without getting in trouble. Every other reason is bullshit.

Legalizing the market for a product in order to tax it is WashingtonFS. Leading with the tax argument for weed legalization is either stupid or liar.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

I still can't figure out why anyone would but from a pot store. People who use it know where to get it and at a price they want to pay. Leave it to the state to fuck this thing up.

I remember talking to a friend who said it should be legalized and have the shit taxed out of it. I said I agreed it should be legal, but why tax the shit out of it? He said something about raising revenue for the state. So basically he didn't have a good answer, just repeating the party line without thinking it through.

Was it too difficult to just legalize it and put the normal (already too high) sales tax on it? FMFYFE.

The Laffer Curve is laffing right now.

When the issue to privatize alcohol was voted on, I voted no after I read the fine print. What a fucked up piece of shit law that is. I'll just continue to go to the liquor store and not pay the ridiculous new tax rate thank you... But somehow it was sold as "privatizing sales will make it cheaper"...yes, it would, if the government go there greedy mitts out of it.

The original referendum that was narrowly defeated the first go around was much better. Then they felt they had to water it down and sweeten for state union interests, thus the steamer we got. I'm convinced the original one would have passed on the second round without changes.

 

[MikeDamone]

I still can't figure out why anyone would but from a pot store. People who use it know where to get it and at a price they want to pay. Leave it to the state to fuck this thing up.

I remember talking to a friend who said it should be legalized and have the shit taxed out of it. I said I agreed it should be legal, but why tax the shit out of it? He said something about raising revenue for the state. So basically he didn't have a good answer, just repeating the party line without thinking it through.

Was it too difficult to just legalize it and put the normal (already too high) sales tax on it? FMFYFE.

The Laffer Curve is laffing right now.

When the issue to privatize alcohol was voted on, I voted no after I read the fine print. What a fucked up piece of shit law that is. I'll just continue to go to the liquor store and not pay the ridiculous new tax rate thank you... But somehow it was sold as "privatizing sales will make it cheaper"...yes, it would, if the government go there greedy mitts out of it.

The original referendum that was narrowly defeated the first go around was much better. Then they felt they had to water it down and sweeten for state union interests, thus the steamer we got. I'm convinced the original one would have passed on the second round without changes.

At least Costco is happy...you know, Costco the great noble corporate citizen... Fuck them..

 

[CuntWaffle]

Keep it legal, and buy it from friends or the weird dude who always wants to talk about 9/11 conspiracy theories when you buy a bag from him... stores are retarded

Simple fact, case closed, and end of discussion.

 

[MikeDamone]

Keep it legal, and buy it from friends or the weird dude who always wants to talk about 9/11 conspiracy theories when you buy a bag from him... stores are retarded

Simple fact, case closed, and end of discussion.

What's weird about that dude?

 

[RoadDawg55]

You can buy in grams or quarters or whatever, who cares. Just call a delivery service, about the same price as black market. Weed stores will be epic failure as long as they're over regulated and 3x price of medical/delivery weed.

I think you are right, but you have to consider the older, square people who don't mind paying higher prices because they feel safer going to a regulated weed store.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

You can buy in grams or quarters or whatever, who cares. Just call a delivery service, about the same price as black market. Weed stores will be epic failure as long as they're over regulated and 3x price of medical/delivery weed.

I think you are right, but you have to consider the older, square people who don't mind paying higher prices because they feel safer going to a regulated weed store.

 

[dnc]

You can buy in grams or quarters or whatever, who cares. Just call a delivery service, about the same price as black market. Weed stores will be epic failure as long as they're over regulated and 3x price of medical/delivery weed.

I think you are right, but you have to consider the older, square people who don't mind paying higher prices because they feel safer going to a regulated weed store.

I'm sure the weed market amongst squares is massive

 

[PurpleJ]

Wait... We're gonna bash Costco??!

But you save money when you buy in bulk!!!!1 Don't you know anything??! ROFL!

 

[doogsinparadise]

You can buy in grams or quarters or whatever, who cares. Just call a delivery service, about the same price as black market. Weed stores will be epic failure as long as they're over regulated and 3x price of medical/delivery weed.

I think you are right, but you have to consider the older, square people who don't mind paying higher prices because they feel safer going to a regulated weed store.

I'm sure the weed market amongst squares is massive

You would be surprised.

 

[doogsinparadise]

I always got the impression that the people writing the initiative were negotiating with themselves and watered it down to appeal to concern trolls in Spokane and Redmond.