It shouldn't be lower prices for the farmer. Dispensary owners are greedy. . There isn't any other business in the world with such a huge profit margin. Most companies make a 25% profit off their products. Dispensaries make a 150% profit. They don't care about patients or farmers. They just want their g5 and Bentley. If dispensaries paid farmers $3500 a pound. They would still make a huge profit. What they make of 2-3 lbs covers all their bills for the month. That's 1-2 days of sales. We need farmers in control and cut out the greedy middle man. Maybe one day we'll have a union or something...
To say the farmers are greedy for wanting $3000 a pound is asenine... We are the ones who put in 10 - 20 hour days in our garden, watering, making teas, transplants, mixing soil, breaking down old soil, trimming, breeding, resi changes ph-ing etc... My last harvest took me 5 days at 12 hours a day to trim all by myself. Plus all the work on top of that.3 weeks out of every 2 months I probably work 20 hours a day every day. Then the rest of the time 5-6 hours a day every other day. Now tell me any other job working that hard. How much are you going to get paid. If it wasn't for us, dispensaries wouldn't be where they are today.. You work the big farms up north. those growers / owners pay their workers up to $500 a day... They know what they are worth. Trim jobs pay $150-$200 a pound.... Plus overhead. Dispensaries don't want to pay us what we and our product is worth... Eventually they will fuck themselves in the end just like all the corporate mmj take overs already have.. charging $2000 a pound doesn't cover shit... At $3000 a pound we barely get by... I long for the old days of $4800 a pound.. That was just 6 years ago..