LostReefSponger
Active Member
See at least you are able to show knowledge for this subject, even if we don't see eye-to-eye, it's refreshing. I understand where dispensaries are coming from when they have higher prices, as you said they risk a lot and they too have bills to pay. Unfortunately those that go to dispensaries believe that they are getting the best of the best, which is why many of them have no problem dishing out more cash, half of selling weed is just hyping it up enough for people to want it enough to pay more, while in college I don't know how many of the guys I bought tried telling me the shit I was getting was all these top-name strains, name dropping is all it takes to get people to want something now-a-days.I understand your logic. But then again I think, if people weren't paying these dispensary prices they wouldn't be selling the Meds for so much. Not so much compassion in a world that you not only have to buy water but even air comes in a can for a price. Anyone been to Cali dispensaries? They have much more Meds in the state of cali than they do in Oregon but the dispensary prices in Cali are even higher! Ppl there will go to a dispensary and let the good strain sit on the shelf for a month based on the prices being too LOW! ridiculous I know but it's the way MOST if not ALL markets work. Supply and demand. These dispensaries are paying a lot for furniture, rent, electricity, and risking a lot to be open. In my eyes, they should be able to charge whatever they want as long as they aren't FORCING ppl to buy their product. And I have yet to see someone buying against their will.
Where a lot of the MMJ patients here get their "happiness for people getting jailed" is just the fact that they are seeing these people going to dispensaries and paying these high prices because of the convenience or lack of a legit caregiver, another reason I support dispensaries getting legalized here. Unfortunately many of the older patients don't have the means, time, or even health to grow it themselves and at their age they don't exactly have friends jumping at the opportunity to grow for them, causing them to go to the dispensaries to get their medicine. Some OMMP caregivers that follow the laws and don't charge their patients for their meds could see this as dispensaries taking advantage of them which just isn't right. Taking advantage of those that do need MMJ for medical purposes by opening illegal dispensaries behind a loop hole in the MMJ laws is what get's so many of us worked up.
While I know that not all of us will see eye-to-eye, I usually try to see things from both sides. I understand that many of these owners might just be trying to open a legit business to help people, and I understand how others can see them as taking advantage of OMMP members. Dispensaries aren't going away, we all know that, we just hope they can start representing MMJ in Oregon better instead of looking like a "criminal" business and causing outsiders to look down upon other OMMP members.