High taxes spark sticker shock for marijuana customers in California

[jfre81]

Prohibition was ignoring the forces of economics. Legalization cannot do the same and succeed.

Taxation levels cannot make legal product noncompetitive, especially not in the one state best suited for large-scale outdoor guerilla grows.

[njbiodude]

I went to a dispensary with my friend recently. I used to sometimes smoke in college and high school but no longer do, as the effects are now very unpleasant (stopped being fun after a few years and I quit). I still was interested to see what was up.

Overall cost was less than I used to spend 10 years ago, and the quality was much better. No ripoffs or dealing with scumbags either. My friend still does it and enjoys it.

[Willamette City]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

I don't partake... but for me it is silly that the pre-tax price is $450 per ounce for something that quite literally is a weed that grows by itself. We have an amazingly efficient agricultural system -- those efficiencies should make their way to pot so its retail price should approach other agricultural products such as apples, oranges, cucumbers, asparagus, walnuts, kale, and the like.

That's not how it works. Marijuana cultivation is quite labor intensive. If you throw the seeds in the ground and walk away, you are very likely to harvest nothing, because cultivation is necessary. Were not talking Hemp here, marijuana has to be tended.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by Willamette City

Were not talking Hemp here, marijuana has to be tended.

If it's hemp and you are not growing for seed or oil but only fiber, you don't even have to flower them out. They grow, you cut them down, you have hemp fiber.

We'll say each pound of cannabis takes a 1,000-watt light indoors, run much of the time in veg and half the time in flower, which can be a 16-week or so process. That's some money. Then there's labor, nutrients, soil etc.

It takes dough to grow the dro.

[shooting4life]

Can’t be as high as cigars at near 85%