it does NOT cost enough to justify those prices. sorry buddy, even if you grow the best shit in the world, you don't have the right to charge that much for it.
nobody does.
Until you have put the time & effort into growing your own,
you'll never know what it's like to know that you grow the best weed around.
When you know this and you know that it's extremely rare for someone else in the area to grow the same quality.
You start to think to yourself, "Am I charging this weed to cheap.
Because as a grower, you know what it all took to get your weed to look this outstanding.
In my area I charge slightly under what everyone else charges.
Marijuana is basically a BlackMarket product.
I can charge whatever I please.
But if I want repeat business, I keep my prices right with or slightly under everyone else.
I know what you mean though. I felt how you do a long time ago,
On the fact that why should I pay X amount of dollars for this.
That's when I decided, I'll grow my own.
In the beginning when I started growing, My first few crops were terrible quality.
But as I gained experience I also expanded my grow op.
Growing weed can be pricey, But I knew if I wanted HighTimes magazine quality I new I had to sink several thousands of dollars into my op.
To make really sticky-icky chronic takes a helluva alot more money than $200.
Just the maintenance that I put into growing phenomenal weed costs me about $250/harvest.
I've had people tell me they're not gonna spend $40 an 8th.
I simply tell'em, "Try and find better quality for less".
Usually the people that tell me this, are young folk who don't know the difference between good weed and excellent weed.
I sometimes even have to give them a short tutorial on how weed is grown and what it's supposed to look like.