Free the Weed

[boho]

Now I know this may be a hot topic, but what is with these ridiculous seed pricing? Anyone that has grown knows that all those little red hairs could be individual seeds. 1000s of seeds per plants so why are we all getting seeds that cost $5-10+/seed?

Seed costs about pennies to produce, how much profit do you need? No where does there exist 100000% markups except here.

In my head the community would move toward free exchange or limited trade for seed. However when looking to hunt down a place to do this it's all walls and no doors. I thought Seedbay but there is still a block to people who wish just to do exchanges like we do for all other seeds all the planet, for free or cost of shipping.

I see little harm in letting some individuals continue this trading in the open if they are in a legal place to do so. What changes need to take place for that to happen?

 

[Galactic]

i think you can group in all the other brilliant ideas in with this one

testing standards, growers unions, patient unions, regulatory agency oversight, blah blah

Too many chiefs not enough indians

90% of your current expenses in your life are much more ridiculous than $5/10 a seed. Coke, gasoline, milk, prescription medications, cigarettes, blah blah... We are getting reamed so bad already in our daily lives that it would even lead you to complain about seeds.

Complain about taxes or that schools couldnt give you more reasoning

 

[boho]

90% of your current expenses in your life are much more ridiculous than $5/10 a seed. Coke, gasoline, milk, prescription medications, cigarettes, blah blah... We are getting reamed so bad already in our daily lives that it would even lead you to complain about seeds.

Actually if you look into each of those industries you find that mark-up isn't as much as it is with seed. Partly because they are all legal and nothing like this industry. But don't take my word for it.


As for a grower's union, no thanks. Unionizing is mediocrity and not a solution to the problem of needing bargaining rights and maintaining freedom and autonomy. The unions turn into a blame platform.

I personally have a problem with a person that subscribes to the idea of hippie idealism but then proceeds to be greedy by charging unrealistic mark-ups all because they can without regulation for a quazi-legal market.