I probably shouldn't be joining this group but as an older mom and pop growing and selling operation for the last 35yrs I would like to post how the legalization has destroyed the marketplace for many people like me and for those who smoke and now have to buy old, stale, crap smoke. So many of us out here who were the growers and sellers of pot to many of you when it was illegal are now out of business. There is no way to compete with $50 a ounce pot and buy the electric bill for growing. Here in Oregon they opened up the market for anyone to come in and set up huge grows which flooded the market place with pot and opened store after store. One of my brothers opened a medical marijuana when medical became legal and has since gone recreational another opened a recreational store both are barely hanging on. There is store after store sometimes 3 stores on 1 block. Where it was a free and open market now it has been taken over by those with big dollars.So there now I have said my piece. It costs thousands of dollars yearly to the state to be a grower. Wish they would have just legalized it and allowed it to find it's own levels.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.there are too many stores b/c interest rates are too low which allows many unprofitable competitors. this is happening throughout the entire economy.
can't go on forever. you might be back in business at a profit in the not too distant future.
callmedubious
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Apr 1, 2019
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That's just horrible! We should make it illegal again so we can send more people to jail and ruin their lives, just for you.
1of5
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Mar 31, 2019
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I didn't imply that at all. And many people that I know and in my family were hurt during those years. And living "in the basement" wasn't the easiest lifestyle either. I was giving a different look that many people don't realize has happened to the people who made sure you all had smoke and took the risk to do that and now any loyalty that they hoped would keep them going has gone to the stores.
1of5:
@grammy playing the martyr card is very unbecoming.
The state is allowing it to find its own levels. It's called competition and it sounds like you didn't prepair for it. For the first time in your career you don't have a captive customer base to exploit and seem pissed they're exercising their options. Good for them.
Your not forced to buy anything from the stores and should probably keep growing your own if you don't like what's being sold. If the stores are selling crap then you should have a market of people who don't want to buy shitty weed and will pay for it. I have a couple friends that just won't buy from stores for a couple reasons no matter the price. I can tell you I'd much rather go to a store and get just what I want instead of having to take only what the grower decides I'll get - if they aren't out, that is.
Should they change the laws? Probably. But that's not going to keep big money out of the market because there's big money to be made there. No form of legalization will prevent that.
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