Legal Pot is Way Overpriced...

100$ an ounce for premium medical grade pot? You're dreaming. You can probably still get Mexican brick at that price. I can get the best of the best at 250 per ounce.

Depends on where you go. I pick up ounces for about 150ish from my medical shop. Grams average about 7-10 dollars. You are out of your damn mind if you think any decent weed is going to sold for 100 an oz.

I CAN GET TOP SHELF FOR $50/OUNCE NOT STUFF THAT'S BEEN GC'ED (GAS CHROMATOGRAPHED) FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES.

GCING IS VERY EXPENSIVE GRANTED AND THAT SHOULD BE A SEPARATE CHARGE.

Of course legal pot is going to cost more. Taxes, licensing etc.

POT THAT IS GROWN INSIDE IS FOR DEVIL WORSHIPING LIARS.

I WANT THE STUFF GROWN STRICTLY OUTSIDE!!!!!

all day long you can see advertisements for 80$- 100$ ounces in the westword....a local mag of denver colorado....

it's good weed.....definitely not mexi swag.....

my prediction.......

WEED WILL COST ALMOST NOTHING SOON....or be free

here in colorado...it is a race to the bottom.....

too many suppliers..not enough demand...equals price goes down.....

black market price is about 25 an eight or cheaper...we returned to late 1980's pricing

i bought a rec 1/8 for ten bucks...12 something after taxes...30% thc....white dawg

And considering the electrical rates $250/oz is infinitely more reasonable. I agree that the standard $50-55/8th is obscene, but $100/oz for top quality is an absolute insult to the people that grow it.

You get a max of 2lbs per 1000 watt light, maybe 3 pounds if you really know what you're doing but this is very rare. Electricity for that light is going to run you around $200-250/mo for 3-4 months, more depending on how long you veg. Then you have the cost of soil or hydro medium, the cost of pots, the cost of nutrients/soil additives, pest control, and that doesn't include the initial investment of all the equipment and the grow room.

And, on top of all of that drama, if you don't know how to dry and cure properly you just wasted all of that money, time, and electricity for something no one is going to buy.

Personally, as someone who used to grow the stuff for many satisfied medical patients, $10/g and $30-35/8th is the best price for AAA+ quality medicinal marijuana. $30-35/8th is cheap enough on the patients to where they can afford the quality meds they need, but it's also just enough for the grower to get reimbursed for all the time, electricity, and equipment that was used.

Now, if we're talking outdoor grows then I'll agree with the $100/oz price all day. An outdoor plant can yield at least one pound, if you really know what you're doing you can get 5-10 pounds out of an outdoor plant. At this point, $100/oz is totally acceptable because there is no electric bill involved and you're yielding anywhere between 3-5 times as much more than indoors.

Top quality indoor marijuana will NEVER be $100/oz. If that's what people pay for top quality indoor, watch top quality indoor disappear.



I used to live in California and now I live in Arizona, both are medical states.

Here's how it worked in California. In California, dispenaries are buying for $2000-2400/lb, $2800 if you're lucky. This translates to $125-$175/oz that these clinics pay for their medicine. So guess what happened to the market? Finding AAA+ quality weed in California is actually pretty tough now, and do you know why? Because the growers who grow AAA+ quality weed know their product is worth much much more than $125-175/oz. So as a result, you have the best growers in California leaving the state because they aren't getting paid enough for their AAA+ meds. Meanwhile, a bunch of chumps growing bunk weed in their backyards are more than happy to get $100/oz for their crap.

I was an in between kind of guy, my indoor was never AAA+ but my outdoor was never crap. My outdoor was good enough to be sold for indoor, just like a lot of other people's outdoor. As a result, most of the "good" mmj in California is actually just very well grown outdoor weed and not primo indoor.

I live in Arizona now and the quality of the meds here is just astonishing, it's been 5 years since I've had quality this good. Granted, it could be because I was in a crappy area for clinics in California, but there aren't many clinics that sell AAA+ meds because people like the OP think those meds are only worth $100/oz.

And I'm not saying this because I'm some butthurt grower, I stopped growing recently due to circumstances. I could NEVER grow marijuana of that quality, I need way more experience. What the people who provide AAA+ quality meds do is nothing short of amazing. Get your own grow going, try to grow AAA+ quality meds and see if you still think it's only worth $100/oz :P

And pretty soon that top quality is going to disappear, those growers are going to be tired of only getting $50/oz I'd assume if the 8th is only $10?

Watch, in about a year that quality won't exist in Colorado anymore because of the tourists coming into Colorado to start "growing tons of weed dawg". Eventually, all "AAA+ quality" will simply be well grown outdoor weed and you won't see quality indoor ever again because the growers simply can't afford to grow it at $50/oz :P

You are not a very shrewd business person if you think most weed will be grown indoors.

What is more cost effective. Free for seeds + cost for water + cost for nutrients + cost for harvest.

Or

All the fancy lighting and all the other bullshit involved with indoor growth.

Places like Washington State can minus the water cost. Land is super cheap water highly abundant.

Then enter states like Alaska who have 100 days of nothing but SUN all day and all night in which to grow their bounty.

etcetera etcetera etcetera

i disagree.....i lived in cali too...my family still does....

it's got nothing to do with colorado....

we are the leaders of the industry...
the best weed period!!!

the direction will be.....

if you wanna sell your weed....it will have to be the best....at the cheapest price...

simple supply and demand.

Arizona...is so far behind.

to all you ignorant people....

read the amendment that colorado residents voted on and passed to allow legal weed.....

they put in the amendment that you may GIVE up to an ounce of weed for free....

i am an artist.....i know a lot of growers and smokers....
i rarely have to buy weed...people here just give it...not just to smoke, but to take home with you...

if you don't live here in colorado territory....you have know idea of what is really going on....

the rest of the country will follow....mark my words.

Well I want something that has been grown indoors by Mad Weed Scientists that makes your outdoor shit look like cheap swag.

wow i am IMPRESSED at this thread, people here really are smart, well a few :)

yes, most of the AAA+ meds are gonna be really good outdoor stuff, in reality that's how it's always been, people just caught onto the whole "hydro" "indoor" fad and forgot what was really happening, indoors your mimicking what's going on outside! with the added benefit of being able to control photoperiod (have multiple harvests) (this is a big deal) and is what will keep the indoor markets alive in some states but it will definitely NOT be the best bud around, or the least expensive.

Ummmm.... Washington has the best weed, cali used to but that's the past sonny!

cannabis was never illegal . all laws based off lies are illegal . why do you allow yourselfs to be railroaded without pointing that out ?

smart person....way to know your Con-stitution...

Too bad once those taxes are tacked on and IRS & ATF get involved, nobody but retailers are going to be selling it for profit.

But just grow your own anyway.

The people make the laws now. It's a living documentation.

If we were to suddenly go back to how it was supposed to be, there would be chaos.

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Last Edited by T Ceti H.C.Radnar on 04/19/2015 01:40 PM

I was never really in it for business, if I were I wouldn't be charging $30/8th :P

The thing with outdoor grows is you have a lot more variables that are out of your control as opposed to indoor. I've grown some incredible quality outdoor, I mean incredible! I couldn't even believe it was outdoor when it was finished, but that wasn't my skill at all, the genetics did all of the work. It was DNA's Purple Trainwreck, incredible strain for sure!

However, try growing some finicky OG strain. If you want something fancy or special like WiFi OG or the like, it will never be perfectly grown outdoors. I don't know the climate in places like Washington or Oregon, so it could be different than an outdoor in SoCal for all I know and I'm guessing it is different :P

In SoCal, you have bugs and pests galore. There are ways to get rid of a lot of them sure, but there are just so many things outdoors you just cannot control. If it gets hotter than 95 degrees where you live, your plants will get stressed. Some strains will hermi at the first sign of stress and will just not make it outdoors. Some strains like Blue Dream, LA Con, and other easy to grow strains will be AAA+ quality outdoors even in the worst of conditions. But if you want some kind of fancy OG Kush strain or something finicky it will not work outdoors.

And I don't see how you could even grow outdoors in Alaska, if you have full sunlight for 100 days then the plant won't even bud. The plant needs a specific amount of darkness every day in order to trigger flowering and with 100 days of pure sunlight you're going to get 100 days of pure veg cycle, then you'll have 100 days of pure darnkess where the plant will just die.



I'm not even going to try and argue that Colorado isn't leading the industry now, you guys are doing a TON of stuff over there. Your state has changed the BHO/wax scene so much in just the last few years, I wouldn't know what I do now about BHO without the Colorado guys!

That being said, supply and demand is why I'm saying you won't be seeing primo weed at those prices for too long. Eventually, these growers will be tired of only getting $2k for premium grown indoor quality and will move to other medical states where they get compensated a little better.

I am by no means an expert so take this with a grain of salt, but I simply do not see how anyone can grow primo quality for a mere $2k/lb, they'll put up with it for a while until a better opportunity arises. A lot of these growers have no choice but to take what they can get, or they'll be homeless, they put all their eggs in one basket and are screwed if they get nothing for it.

The way I see it, if you want $100/oz primo weed you should just grow it yourself and it'll be cheaper than that! Unfortunately, growers need to make money and so do the shops, so if you want to avoid getting gouged just learn how to grow it yourself. I don't understand why people still buy it when it's legal to grow your own now :P

bump in case your totally blinded

What is that ? I never heard of that!

gas chromatography is a process that is used to test the potencty/content of the finished dried product (the buds)

it's to read quality and quantity of the product to correctly represent it..so you can say with proof your bud is 26 percent THC :) (x)mg THC per (y) quantity of dried product.

the lab equipment particularly the piece called a "gas chromatograph." is very expensive.

so in states where this is required for the bud to be sold on the "white," market or "medical," market, the price is inflated, it's extra overhead.

Black markets are true markets... No regulations.

If you can trust your suppliers, then why not?

It's when you can't... That's when other markets sound more appealing.

Competition is the great equalizer!

Almost that time...

A $100 for an ounce of high grade on the street? I fucking wish...

This is why you should switch to RED WINE!