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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on January 21, 2014, 07:33:17 PM
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Tokers React to High-Priced Legal Marijuana Sales in Colorado
"$400 an ounce?" asked one Twitter user about a receipt showing a purchase of an eighth ounce of Girl Scout Cookies for fifty dollars, plus $14.25 in taxes, for a total of $64.25. "You can keep your legalization if weed's gonna cost $65/8th!" Others noted the prices for the same strain of marijuana in their local medical marijuana dispensary, ranging from twenty to forty dollars an eighth.
On the other hand, reactions from tokers in the less-marijuana-tolerant parts of the country ranged from bemusement to disgust at the denigration of legal weed prices. "$60 an eighth is what I pay here in Chicago," one Facebooker wrote, "and that's for a short bag of 'what's available' bought on the street from a gang banger. I'd love to wait in line in the snow to have the selection, security and quality they're getting in Colorado for about the same price!"
Of course, the 15 percent excise tax and 10 percent sales tax on marijuana are also adding to the purchase price of marijuana, as well as the state and local sales taxes. Medical marijuana cardholders aren't subject to all the taxes and the price of a medical marijuana "red card" has dropped to just $15.
Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/high-times/marijuana-prices-colorado_b_4550666.html)
Sticker shock... dude.
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WHAT? DUmmies bitching about high taxes on their drug of choice.....why I thought everyone was supposed to be over joyed at paying their fair share.
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I thought they were allowed to grow their own.
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WHAT? DUmmies bitching about high taxes on their drug of choice.....why I thought everyone was supposed to be over joyed at paying their fair share.
They think that someone else should pay for their fair share.
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I thought they were allowed to grow their own.
Just remember that growing plants of any type takes some skill and commitment to details. Those aren't exactly found in pot smokers.
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Hmmm. Maybe they will be forced to STEAL to support their legalized habit...
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They think that someone else should pay for their fair share.
You win the thread! :whistling:
Seriously, you're dead-on.
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You win the thread! :whistling:
Seriously, you're dead-on.
Thanks. I usually just kill threads or add a few rocks to be tossed into the fray. :-)
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$400 an ounce? Holy shit.
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$400 an ounce? Holy shit.
$100 of that is taxes. :-)
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(http://www.mcgrewsecurity.com/img/DudeWhat.jpg)
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$400 an ounce? Holy shit.
Yes, the price of gold is falling and the price of pot is rising due to government regs, they will soon cross paths at the rubicon.
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$100 of that is taxes. :-)
paying your taxes is the patriotic thing to do.
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Yes, the price of gold is falling and the price of pot is rising due to government regs, they will soon cross paths at the rubicon.
Pot as the new monetary standard?
You mean money really can grow on trees? :yahoo:
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There is a reason these people are called dopers; they are too stupid to realize that once the government gets their hands into the pie it is going to be a cluster f..k. LMAO
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Well with everyone and their grandma buying pot of course the prices are going to be high. Once the supply catches up with demand prices will fall. Economics 101.
Never smoked pot, but it has never made any sense to me that it was illegal. It just got demonized much like alcohol did.
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$100 of that is taxes. :-)
Good thing the liberals have EBT, who can afford the munchies at that price?
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Pot as the new monetary standard?
Call it the new Green Economy!
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I love it when this shit comes back to bite them in the ass.
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The libs love to say that legalizing drugs is a panacea. Maybe now they will realize legalization will be a pandora's box.
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Liberal government control. If you grow it, you are taxed. If you transport it, you are taxed. If you sell it, you are taxed. If you buy it, you are taxed.
Yeah, free dope man...... idiots.
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Obama with the stroke of a pen added $7 to a carton of cigarettes when he first came to office and now we have more...Black market cigarettes....and now black market pot....Obama's idea of creating jobs.
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Liberal government control. If you grow it, you are taxed. If you transport it, you are taxed. If you sell it, you are taxed. If you buy it, you are taxed.
Yeah, free dope man...... idiots.
If they follow the health care model they will also tax you if you don't use it.
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Obama with the stroke of a pen added $7 to a carton of cigarettes when he first came to office and now we have more...Black market cigarettes....and now black market pot....Obama's idea of creating jobs
I don't see legalizing it hurting the black market. Just read an article where a legal buy of $400 would cost $60-$200 on the black market.
Also, the surrounding states are seeing a lot more drug traffic coming out of Colorado and into theirs, Colorado being the hub.
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this just made me laugh... really, really laugh.
they didn't know how much pot cost -- and now, they have to buy their post with TAXES.... right up there with Light Grenades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCeD2gF9jUo