After 5 Months of Sales, Colorado Sees the Downside of a Legal High

[Moonglow]

How much is pot these days, anyway?

I have no idea.

Commercial, 100 ounce, primo 300-480 an ounce. In Colorado primo is sold for 210 an ounce.

Local news from Bellingham Whatcom County WA BellinghamHerald.com

March 16, 2014

After taxes, one Denver store charged recreational customers $411.81 for an ounce of marijuana last month...

Denver lawyer and legalization advocate Brian Vicente estimated street prices are around $300 to $400 an ounce, similar to recreational marijuana. On the other hand, the website priceofweed.com, which taps anonymous consumers to “crowdsource the street value of marijuana,” and which Washington state consultants used in their estimations, listed prices lower.

High-quality marijuana in both Colorado and Washington is selling on the street for less than $240 an ounce, the website’s contributors reported this month...

Legal or illegal, pot smokers still have to find and spend the same amount as they always have.

It went up in price because they had such a high sales volume and ran out...Supply will catch up to demand, but the cost is cheaper when you don't have to figure in legal costs if caught..

 

[Jarlaxle]

And how many had problems with Alcohol in 2012
About 10,000 innocent people were killed by drunk drivers
About 35,000 Alcohol related crashes
About 20,000 related deaths from Liver and Cancer disease
About 3,000,000 were victims of an Alcohol related Violence.

Then maybe we need to make alcohol (and tobacco) illegal as well.

Already tried that...it was a catastrophe.

 

[Anathema]

let's throw in religion also, look at all the death and destruction from that recreation...

That works for me. I'd rather see a society based on the ability to maintain Morality rather than religion or democracy anyway.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

How much is pot these days, anyway?

I have no idea.

Commercial, 100 ounce, primo 300-480 an ounce. In Colorado primo is sold for 210 an ounce.

Local news from Bellingham Whatcom County WA BellinghamHerald.com

March 16, 2014

After taxes, one Denver store charged recreational customers $411.81 for an ounce of marijuana last month...

Denver lawyer and legalization advocate Brian Vicente estimated street prices are around $300 to $400 an ounce, similar to recreational marijuana. On the other hand, the website priceofweed.com, which taps anonymous consumers to “crowdsource the street value of marijuana,” and which Washington state consultants used in their estimations, listed prices lower.

High-quality marijuana in both Colorado and Washington is selling on the street for less than $240 an ounce, the website’s contributors reported this month...

Legal or illegal, pot smokers still have to find and spend the same amount as they always have.

It went up in price because they had such a high sales volume and ran out...Supply will catch up to demand, but the cost is cheaper when you don't have to figure in legal costs if caught..

Although in some states, that's not a problem and makes more sense than arrests.

States That Have Decriminalized

The following states have passed laws decriminalizing marijuana. Typically, decriminalization means no prison time or criminal record for first-time possession of a small amount for personal consumption. The conduct is treated like a minor traffic violation.

• Alaska
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• District of Columbia
• Maine
• Maryland (October 2014)
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Rhode Island
• Vermont

 

[Moonglow]

How much is pot these days, anyway?

I have no idea.

Commercial, 100 ounce, primo 300-480 an ounce. In Colorado primo is sold for 210 an ounce.

Local news from Bellingham Whatcom County WA BellinghamHerald.com

March 16, 2014

After taxes, one Denver store charged recreational customers $411.81 for an ounce of marijuana last month...

Denver lawyer and legalization advocate Brian Vicente estimated street prices are around $300 to $400 an ounce, similar to recreational marijuana. On the other hand, the website priceofweed.com, which taps anonymous consumers to “crowdsource the street value of marijuana,” and which Washington state consultants used in their estimations, listed prices lower.

High-quality marijuana in both Colorado and Washington is selling on the street for less than $240 an ounce, the website’s contributors reported this month...

Legal or illegal, pot smokers still have to find and spend the same amount as they always have.

It went up in price because they had such a high sales volume and ran out...Supply will catch up to demand, but the cost is cheaper when you don't have to figure in legal costs if caught..

Although in some states, that's not a problem and makes more sense than arrests.

States That Have Decriminalized

The following states have passed laws decriminalizing marijuana. Typically, decriminalization means no prison time or criminal record for first-time possession of a small amount for personal consumption. The conduct is treated like a minor traffic violation.

• Alaska
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• District of Columbia
• Maine
• Maryland (October 2014)
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Rhode Island
• Vermont

In other words, states with fewer progressives trying to legislate morality...

 

[Andylusion]

And how many had problems with Alcohol in 2012
About 10,000 innocent people were killed by drunk drivers
About 35,000 Alcohol related crashes
About 20,000 related deaths from Liver and Cancer disease
About 3,000,000 were victims of an Alcohol related Violence.

Then maybe we need to make alcohol (and tobacco) illegal as well.

let's throw in religion also, look at all the death and destruction from that recreation...

Amazing how quickly the left jumps a banning the very rights this country was founded on protecting.

Atheism has killed far more, and if you did ban religion, you'd kill more still, because I'm not going to stop practicing no matter what law you put in place. You'd have to kill me.

 

[Andylusion]

And how many had problems with Alcohol in 2012
About 10,000 innocent people were killed by drunk drivers
About 35,000 Alcohol related crashes
About 20,000 related deaths from Liver and Cancer disease
About 3,000,000 were victims of an Alcohol related Violence.

Then maybe we need to make alcohol (and tobacco) illegal as well.

Already tried that...it was a catastrophe.

A catastrophe to criminals. Not to the rest of us.

 

[PredFan]

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And how many had problems with Alcohol in 2012

About 10,000 innocent people were killed by drunk drivers

About 35,000 Alcohol related crashes

About 20,000 related deaths from Liver and Cancer disease

About 3,000,000 were victims of an Alcohol related Violence

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So your solution is to make the problem worse?

Is it worse? Or will traffic deaths and other forms of violence related to illegal drug trade drop and offset what pot causes?

 

[nodoginnafight]

No reason to prosecute anyone for pot.
Clear out the jails to make room for those who DUI

 

[Jarlaxle]

And how many had problems with Alcohol in 2012
About 10,000 innocent people were killed by drunk drivers
About 35,000 Alcohol related crashes
About 20,000 related deaths from Liver and Cancer disease
About 3,000,000 were victims of an Alcohol related Violence.

Then maybe we need to make alcohol (and tobacco) illegal as well.

Already tried that...it was a catastrophe.

A catastrophe to criminals. Not to the rest of us.

Are you serious?! Or are you just crazy?