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High Demand: Price of legal marijuana soars in Colorado

Peter Grimm said:
To a liberal, two men having anal butt sex is good.... children praying in school is bad.

To a liberal, smoking weed in your mom's basement is good.... making a lot of money is bad.

Did I miss anything?
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Yay for strawman arguments and telling liberals what they think, then attempting to use it as a cudgel. Intellectually dishonest tripe.
 
Kobie said:
It most absolutely isn't. Provide something to support that weird and quite frankly nonsensical assertion.
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it is, only inexperienced couch potatoes would not know or see this or people in comas.
 
Rocketman said:
it is, only inexperienced couch potatoes would not know or see this or people in comas.
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Provide some evidence to support your assertion that the people who complain about health care costs are also the people who buy weed. C'mon, you can do it if it's so obvious that one must be an "inexperienced couch potato" not to see it.
 
Lursa said:
Seems like someone has trouble understanding the Constitution, personal liberty, and supports big govt.

Sounds like you are very confused in your political identity...whatever it is.
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Pretty sure butt sex, school prayer, pot smoking and stratified taxation are all omitted from the constitution.

Regardless, I believe what I believe - I'm socially conservative and fiscally center/left. I believe in traditional family values, and a fair society that doesn't exclude any social class from fully participating. I believe in managed capitalism along with universal healthcare, I believe everyone has a right to a dignified job that pays them a living wage, and I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, abortion should be the absolute last resort (if it should be allowed at all), and that the family and the church should be the strongest social institutions in the country.
 
Kobie said:
Provide some evidence to support your assertion that the people who complain about health care costs are also the people who buy weed. C'mon, you can do it if it's so obvious that one must be an "inexperienced couch potato" not to see it.
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Come out to the KY West Tn area and I will provide all the evidence you need, but that means coming out of your cubicle
 
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iacardsfan said:
Obviously the supply will catch up with the demand. More dispensaries will be opened and more people will begin living the American dream: starting their own profitable business and being able to move up and down the socioeconomic ladder at will. The prices will certainly fall once the free market has its way.
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I would think if the dispensaries introduced and sold the "swag," commercial weed, often purchased from the streets, the cost would come in around 75.00 an ounce.

This primo, hydro, kush, <fill in your favorite strain here,> like they are selling at the dispensaries, costs around 100.00 a quarter ounce, on the streets. Still cheaper to buy it from the dispensaries.

Once the idea catches on, this will put a HUGE dent in the terroristic cartel's pocketbooks. I look for the cartels/organized crime to start muscle-ing in on the legal dispensaries or growers. Unless the government gets there first. Oh wait. The government already has. LOL!
 
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Rocketman said:
Come out to the KY West Tn area and I will provide all the evidence you need, but that means coming out of your cubicle
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Sure, I'll do that. I'll drive to West Tennessee. :roll:
 
radioman said:
True enough....but $400 an ounce???
Why, I know a guy who.............never mind.
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Average price of a quarter ounce of adult strength is $100.00 in Chicago-land. More expensive in the city.
 
Lursa said:
How can it be a failure? Constitutionally, IMO it cannot be.

Unless it takes more law enforcement lives, and costs more in court and prison costs over the next 5 decades than in the previous 5, I'm not sure how it could be.
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There's more to this than LEO lives, court and prison costs. But I'll just keep my mouth shut. No one wants to hear the possibilities and will always scoff at them when stated. All people care about is the here and now and screw everything else that doesn't affect them in a visible, direct way.
 
Rocketman said:
I was in fort collins last fall after the legislation had passed and people were already going crazy, your snotty opinion does not change facts that many who complain about health insurance costs are the same ones that have money to buy everything else including pot.
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Funny how you say the fact that an Iraq vet was first in line and many of the rest were rather white collar folks... as the NEWS reported it and you called it "opinion" then counter by presenting your opinion and declare it fact. Up is down I suppose.
 
poweRob said:
Funny how you say the fact that an Iraq vet was first in line and many of the rest were rather white collar folks... as the NEWS reported it and you called it "opinion" then counter by presenting your opinion and declare it fact. Up is down I suppose.
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he thinks the first ten in line represent the whole state of pot users:lamo
 
Rocketman said:
he thinks the first ten in line represent the whole state of pot users:lamo
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I do? I'm just going by the news stories I saw. You are going by ignorance through stereotyping.

Meh...
 
poweRob said:
I do? I'm just going by the news stories I saw. You are going by ignorance through stereotyping.

Meh...
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You go with the first ten and call me ignorant?:lamo
 
Rocketman said:
You go with the first ten and call me ignorant?:lamo
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I don't know where you are gettting this first 10 bit but TBH... you have a habit of making things up so no surprise there.

Here's a recap of what I said:

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Just for your information the first person allowed to buy some was an Iraq vet and the rest of the day was doctors and lawyers type according to the news reports.
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So that number of "first ten" you keep reiterating... is just you again making crap up.

The prices were $400 an ounce. I can't imagine too many of the people you envision as liberal losers lining up for that price.
 
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poweRob said:
I don't know where you are gettting this first 10 bit but TBH... you have a habit of making things up so no surprise there.

Here's a recap of what I said:



So that number of "first ten" you keep reiterating... is just you again making crap up.

The prices were $400 an ounce. I can't imagine too many of the people you envision as liberal losers lining up for that price.
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Basically what you said is a few, pathetic:lamo
 
iacardsfan said:
Obviously the supply will catch up with the demand. More dispensaries will be opened and more people will begin living the American dream: starting their own profitable business and being able to move up and down the socioeconomic ladder at will. The prices will certainly fall once the free market has its way.
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This is exactly what will happen. It is kind of like when the new PS4 came out. Prices are thru the roof at first, and only the idiots that want to brag about being the first in will pay to brag about it.
 
Kal'Stang said:
There's more to this than LEO lives, court and prison costs. But I'll just keep my mouth shut. No one wants to hear the possibilities and will always scoff at them when stated. All people care about is the here and now and screw everything else that doesn't affect them in a visible, direct way.
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Here and now? I've been getting the 'Drugs are bad' speil since the 60's. Never bothered with them much but certainly saw the failure of the "War on Drugs."

I see lots of possibilities and almost all of them are positive...and again...I dont even use pot nor care to. While I can see some drawbacks, I dont see them as any different than other 'substances' that we use freely in society and see govt infringement as unConstitutional in general on things like this.

What 'more' do you see that is or could be negative?
 
Peter Grimm said:
Pretty sure butt sex, school prayer, pot smoking and stratified taxation are all omitted from the constitution.

Exactly my point...so butt out. It's none of your business what other people do and school prayer is allowed in some circumstances. (The tax thing is bogus and wasnt in the post I responded to.)

Regardless, I believe what I believe - I'm socially conservative and fiscally center/left. I believe in traditional family values, and a fair society that doesn't exclude any social class from fully participating. I believe in managed capitalism along with universal healthcare, I believe everyone has a right to a dignified job that pays them a living wage, and I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, abortion should be the absolute last resort (if it should be allowed at all), and that the family and the church should be the strongest social institutions in the country.

Good for you. I have no idea what any of that has to do with pot smoking but pot has certainly contributed much less to death and violence and domestic abuse than cigarettes or alcohol. Moralize all you want, but I hate hypocrisy (pot being illegal compared to nicotine or alcohol) and $$ wasted on useless things like the "War on Drugs."
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I've only taken one puff of marijuana in my life, hated it and never went back. Now I'm old and creaky, and although my lungs are shot so smoking is out, I'd love to make a nice tea that would take away pain and make my dreary existence seem dreamy! :lol:

We can supposedly get medical MJ here in California, but there's a loophole in the law that allows cities and counties to forbid the sale and growing of MJ inside their limits, so basically it might as well still be illegal, since in most of the state various asshole city councils and county supervisors have bowed to the politics of their constituents. Unfortunately, I don't live in a "blue" county, so no MJ tea for me. :(
 
DiAnna said:
I've only taken one puff of marijuana in my life, hated it and never went back. Now I'm old and creaky, and although my lungs are shot so smoking is out, I'd love to make a nice tea that would take away pain and make my dreary existence seem dreamy! :lol:

We can supposedly get medical MJ here in California, but there's a loophole in the law that allows cities and counties to forbid the sale and growing of MJ inside their limits, so basically it might as well still be illegal, since in most of the state various asshole city councils and county supervisors have bowed to the politics of their constituents. Unfortunately, I don't live in a "blue" county, so no MJ tea for me. :(
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You can also make cookies and brownies with it

That can sneak up on you very quickly
 
Rocketman said:
Basically what you said is a few, pathetic:lamo
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Why do you keep quoting me then argue with a strawman? I never said anything you declare that I said. Try to make a point without making stuff up for a change.
 
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