Marijuana Economics

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Tuesday October 22, 2013 · 7:40 PM PDT

2013/10/22 · 19:40

I've been smoking weed for a long time. The first time I smoked weed was in Alaska in 1979. I smoked some Matanuska Thunderfuck. I had just finished building a deck and I just sat there, looked at the clouds, felt the breeze and decided that it was good.

Since then I've smoked a few pounds. I paid $2 an ounce in Thailand in 1980. I paid $120 an ounce for Mexican swag in Alabama in 1987. I paid $300 an ounce for kind bud in Nederland, CO in 1989. I suffered through the drought of 1990 when the the drug war was in high gear and there seemingly was no harvest.

I started paying $400 an ounce for Chem Dawg in 1994 and I smoked that for fourteen years. The price dropped to $350 an ounce in 2007 and in 2008 I started shopping at a dispensary. I was paying $350 an ounce.

Cannaman

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Wednesday November 07, 2012 · 4:38 PM PST

2012/11/07 · 16:38

As soon as John Hickenlooper certifies the election, every adult over the age of 21 will be able to possess an ounce of marijuana. It will be part of Colorado's constitution - Amendment 64.

It will still be against federal law, but all State enforcement having to do with the sale of marijuana will be the concern of the Colorado Department of Revenue. Marijuana will no longer be the concern of criminal law enforcement, and since the DEA is only effective to the extent local law enforcement assists them, all law enforcement concerning marijuana will stop in Colorado in the next 30 days. The DEA may do some work on their own, but every task force devoted to marijuana enforcement will have to focus on meth, cocaine and other hard drugs. Sweet Mary Jane is no longer a menace to society in Colorado!

Cannaman

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Sunday June 10, 2012 · 7:24 PM PDT

2012/06/10 · 19:24

The first thing you need to do is make sure that you are smoking weed grown in a regulated marketplace or are doing a good job of growing your own. This means that if you live anywhere except for Colorado, DO NOT SMOKE WEED unless you grow it yourself.

I'm serious. I smoked street weed for thirty years and after finding myself unemployed, I started growing and selling weed three years ago during the Colorado Green Rush. I meticulously follow Colorado law while saying "Fuck the Feds" every morning as I head off to work. After about three months in the Wild West period of the Green Rush, I started to feel like Upton Sinclair in a Chicago meatpacking plant.

After watching an "organic" grower spray his crop with Bayer Tree and Shrub two weeks before harvest, I realized weed needed to be regulated. Shortly thereafter, the Colorado Legislature and Governor Ritter passed HB1284 and the first regulated marijuana marketplace in the United States was born.

Cannaman

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Friday May 18, 2012 · 12:35 PM PDT

2012/05/18 · 12:35

A lot of folks have suffered as they have occupied various sites. I highly recommend Occupying Aspen this July. It's a beutiful time to be in the Rockies. There is lots of legal National Forest Camping in the Area, and best of all the world's movers and shakers will be in town for the Aspen Ideas Festival June 27th thru July 3rd.

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Tuesday May 08, 2012 · 4:19 PM PDT

2012/05/08 · 16:19

Colorado Law regulates our medical marijuana industry. Forty-eight businesses that were legal under Colorado's Medical Marijuana Law, were taxed under Colorado Medical Marijuana Law, and paid more $400,000 in licensing fees as they were winding their way through Colorado's regulatory schema were bullied into closing by US Attorney Walsh.

Now, more threatening letters are on the way and US Attorney Walsh is looking for narcs.

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Monday May 07, 2012 · 8:04 PM PDT

2012/05/07 · 20:04

I grow cannabis for a Medical Marijuana Center in Colorado. We're a small business that has 14 employees. Ten full time and four part time. We have a couple of retail outlets and two gardens. We follow the laws of Colorado to the letter.

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Sunday January 22, 2012 · 3:54 AM PST

2012/01/22 · 03:54

I love my job. I grow cannabis for a living. Six days a week, I wake up at 4:30 in the morning, have a cup of coffee, and go to work. I work in full sunlight every day. I grow legendary strains like White Widow and Northern Lights as well as the latest flavors like the Skywalker OG and Kosher Kush. I grow plants that will not grow taller than three feet and refuse to provide more than 220g of flowers per square meter of light. I grow monsters like the Blue Dream that can get ten feet tall and produce 1200g per square meter of light. I fight pests using organic methods and I make our hash by hand using bubble bags, ice, and spring water. If you would have told me that I would smoking flowers of this quality three years ago, doing this work, I would have told you that you were crazy. I built and remodelled million dollar houses for a living and would have kept doing it except for the banksters.

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