A price cap on legal pot in Uruguay...

desert dude

desert dude

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Interesting approach, about $460 price per pound cap. A better approach would be to simply legalize it and let the market determine a fair price. I know all you socialists love government meddling, but the invisible hand of the market would quickly sort out a fair price. My guess is about $10 to $20 per pound.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/uruguay-official-legal-pot-1-gram
Uruguay's drug czar says the country plans to sell legal marijuana for $1 per gram to combat drug-trafficking, according to a local newspaper.
 
FreedomWorks

FreedomWorks

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Democrats are on board, as long as they get to tax and regulate it. The amount you owe will be determined after gathering information on profit margins and political views. We can put it all in a big database with all your other personal information like health records under the ACA. That way the IRS has access to your personal records in the event that Democrats need it to attack you for political reasons.
 
desert dude

desert dude

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With prices set at $13 per gram ($5928 per pound) by the "legal market" in Washington, I am going to go out on a limb here and say that the cartel is/are cumming in their jeans. This sort of legalization is doomed, probably intentionally so.


In the U.S., the states of Washington and Colorado have legalized marijuana and adopted rules governing its sale.
Unlike Uruguay, they will tax pot, seeing it as a revenue source, when it goes on legal sale next year.
In Washington, the state marijuana consultant has projected legal pot might cost between $13 to $17 per gram, though some people suggest that's high.
Marijuana in the medical dispensaries typically ranges from $8 to $14 per gram in Washington depending on quality.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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desert dude said:
Interesting approach, about $460 price per pound cap. A better approach would be to simply legalize it and let the market determine a fair price. I know all you socialists love government meddling, but the invisible hand of the market would quickly sort out a fair price.
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$460 a pound would be way more than fair. i would only have to triple my output, which would not be much more work than simply tending to what i do now. might have to automate trimming a tad more, but otherwise a decent way to make a living.


desert dude said:
*My guess is about $10 to $20 per pound.
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well, you can dream all you want.

you said $5 a pound a few months ago. your guess above is not really any better. it is laughable.

the product in question is top cola sinsemilla. fully automated harvesting does not yet exist, although i know the bear has a few bright ideas about how it might be done. the end product would not be top cola sinsemilla though.

and prices can go much lower than $460 per pound, but no matter what, there will be a group of growers pulling $460 a pound and selling it faster than they can even grow it.

you simply have no understanding about the subject you have made a thread about.

edit: and if your idiotic musing of $5 per pound were to become reality, i would just need 25 acres or so. the smell would be lovely.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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desert dude said:
With prices set at $13 per gram ($5928 per pound) by the "legal market" in Washington, I am going to go out on a limb here and say that the cartel is/are cumming in their jeans. This sort of legalization is doomed, probably intentionally so.


In the U.S., the states of Washington and Colorado have legalized marijuana and adopted rules governing its sale.
Unlike Uruguay, they will tax pot, seeing it as a revenue source, when it goes on legal sale next year.
In Washington, the state marijuana consultant has projected legal pot might cost between $13 to $17 per gram, though some people suggest that's high.
Marijuana in the medical dispensaries typically ranges from $8 to $14 per gram in Washington depending on quality.
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people will happily pay that much all day.
 
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ChesusRice

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UncleBuck said:
how about you start a thread about it and link to it instead of disintegrating every thread of this nature into that tired old canard.
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NO

Because this kind of shit is what you are going to get if you get your wish of Commercial pot.

You all think your going to be the JP Morgan of pot when it goes full legal and the fact is you will be regulated out of business by big money
 
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PurpleBuz

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ChesusRice said:
NO

Because this kind of shit is what you are going to get if you get your wish of Commercial pot.

You all think your going to be the JP Morgan of pot when it goes full legal and the fact is you will be regulated out of business by big money
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actually they will probably be the first in a long line of IRS investigations trigerred by forensic accounting for applicants of commercial growing licenses
 
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ChesusRice

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PurpleBuz said:
actually they will probably be the first in a long line of IRS investigations trigerred by forensic accounting for applicants of commercial growing licenses
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I'm thinking more of the lines on the laws we already have for distilled spirits and manufacture of cigarettes. Or conversly the stupid law in Arizona where you cannot legally grow within 25 miles of a dispensary
 
OGEvilgenius

OGEvilgenius

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desert dude said:
With prices set at $13 per gram ($5928 per pound) by the "legal market" in Washington, I am going to go out on a limb here and say that the cartel is/are cumming in their jeans. This sort of legalization is doomed, probably intentionally so.


In the U.S., the states of Washington and Colorado have legalized marijuana and adopted rules governing its sale.
Unlike Uruguay, they will tax pot, seeing it as a revenue source, when it goes on legal sale next year.
In Washington, the state marijuana consultant has projected legal pot might cost between $13 to $17 per gram, though some people suggest that's high.
Marijuana in the medical dispensaries typically ranges from $8 to $14 per gram in Washington depending on quality.
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13 a gram? LOL. I gotta say, there's 0 chance I'll ever go to Washington to enjoy legal herb. Ridiculous. You're probably correct about being designed to fail.

You're also probably correct about the price for commercially produced bud. Hand manicured, unhandled top shelf would still go for more though I think. This assumes no outside forces acting. Of course there will be outside forces acting however.

I think setting price limits on things is a recipe for economic disaster, ditto the opposite. But that's the economist in me. I think they set the ceiling high enough that it won't be a huge issue though. Wages aren't so high in Uruguay so hand trimmed wouldn't be so expensive. It realistically takes about 4-8 hours to trim a dry lb by hand. That's a relatively large cost as a % of the cost of production, but it's still a lot less than the proposed ceiling. I see no point in having a ceiling though.
 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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ChesusRice said:
NO

Because this kind of shit is what you are going to get if you get your wish of Commercial pot.

You all think your going to be the JP Morgan of pot when it goes full legal and the fact is you will be regulated out of business by big money
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Government shielded corporations will certainly grab mega market share. So you are correct retail prices will likely drop alot. However the "protectionism" you advocate for small pot growers is simply trading the gun of government from shielding one entity (corporations") to shielding another (small growers / dealers).

It would be best if nobody was held hostage by the gun and all people could grow, buy, sell or consume according to their wants and needs.
 
Trousers

Trousers

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ChesusRice said:
NO

Because this kind of shit is what you are going to get if you get your wish of Commercial pot.

You all think your going to be the JP Morgan of pot when it goes full legal and the fact is you will be regulated out of business by big money
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They are not going to regulate growers like me and my friends "out of business."
We were doing this long before it was legal.

By your logic micro breweries should have been regulated out of existence by bud/coors/miller.

There will always be a market for top shelf weed, period.
 
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ChesusRice

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Trousers said:
They are not going to regulate growers like me and my friends "out of business."
We were doing this long before it was legal.

By your logic micro breweries should have been regulated out of existence by bud/coors/miller.

There will always be a market for top shelf weed, period.
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Why don't you find out how much regulations cost to start a micro Brewery that sells to the public?
 
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