Retail?

[Jhhnn]

Add some of the Strainwise dispensaries-

http://www.strainwise.com/blog/

Dunno if it'll be 9 or 10 AM. None of them are answering the phone, that's for sure, & mailboxes are full.

 

[Eureka Springs Organics]

DANK was frantic. Just got back form there. Super nice people. They look like they are ready.

 

[Jhhnn]

I'll probably be hitting up denver kush club, got some pretty good sssdh last time i went there....
everyone enjoy getting your first taste of legal herbs! i can't believe tomorrw is... tomorrow!!!

Looking back, I'm not sure what we thought legalization would be like 40 years ago, but it wasn't this. Maybe we thought the heat would just go away & we'd keep smoking imports, or something. Maybe we thought it would stay kinda underground, anyway, even if it were legal. Being able to just buy it at the store, pick from several different kinds was almost unimaginable.

Yet here it is. Amazing. Equally amazing is that the cause has been carried forward on its medical qualities, the last thing on our minds in 1973.

Yeh, I'm old. Don't rub it in, OK?

 

[BOMBAYCAT]

The 6 AM news shows people lining up outside retail weed shops and they don't even open till 8:00 AM. I hope there is enough supply. I heard that existing MMJ dispensaries will not be allowed to sell stock to retail shops. Is that true?

 

[Mel Frank]

Looking back, I'm not sure what we thought legalization would be like 40 years ago, but it wasn't this. Maybe we thought the heat would just go away & we'd keep smoking imports, or something. Maybe we thought it would stay kinda underground, anyway, even if it were legal. Being able to just buy it at the store, pick from several different kinds was almost unimaginable.

Yet here it is. Amazing. Equally amazing is that the cause has been carried forward on its medical qualities, the last thing on our minds in 1973.

Yeh, I'm old. Don't rub it in, OK?

You are quite right, when I was stationed at Lowry in 1973 and we went up to The Hill and parks in Boulder to score weed no one ever imagined "medicine" was possible.

 

[MrDanky]

we need some live shots from DEN!
this is huge

 

[BOMBAYCAT]

Hey MrDanky: A local tv station (9news.com) under featured-marijuana legal has some good articles and slide shows now. Interesting stuff.

 

[wolfiehowlin]

we need some live shots from DEN!
this is huge

We may take a drive later this afternoon to see whether it's insane or orderly. I'm curious to see a bit of history being made, but doubt I'll queue up to purchase anything today.

It is kind of exciting to see our votes being finally manifested in a new reality for Colorado.

Happy New Year
Wolfie

 

[Jhhnn]

We may take a drive later this afternoon to see whether it's insane or orderly. I'm curious to see a bit of history being made, but doubt I'll queue up to purchase anything today.

It is kind of exciting to see our votes being finally manifested in a new reality for Colorado.

Happy New Year
Wolfie

Went to check it out. Evergreen Apothecary had maybe 200 people outside. Went up to the Haven(?) at 777 Canosa- closed. Their place at 74 Federal had even more people, and there had to be 300 people at the 2600W Alameda place. Seemed laid back everywhere. Despite the dire warnings, there won't be any looting, rape or rampage, I suspect.

Maybe the crowds will die down later, & maybe there'll be product remaining. I can hope, right?

 

[Eureka Springs Organics]

Mile high on south federal had over 100 in line, and the Strainwise place on on South Federal had over 200 in line. Damn!

 

[Avinash.miles]

request granted

request granted

The day is here, I took a lil drive around the city of Denver today with some pals. Best thing I can say is how nice it was to see people standing in line, so exited to purchase, its a cold wet morning here today, not real cold, but not a nice morning by any means; snowed a lil bit before shops opened so some slush in places. I remember my first time buying herb in a dispensary, as a medical patient, legally. It's fulfilling, a release of all the fear that has been (and still is in most places around the world) instilled in us all under prohibition.
I like the idea of a whole lot of people having that feeling today, in Denver, that gives me a warm fuzzy vibe.

we need some live shots from DEN!
this is huge

agreed, this is huge

^^^ green solution on Alameda, i've been there before as a med patient, never super impressed, but decent pricing (as a med patient remember!) and each time i went at least one jar stood out as "good enough to buy".

^^ denver kush club in 5 points of denver
I've only shopped here once as a med patient, it was recently, and i was very happy with the sssdh i got there.

^^
never been to this spot, but it was previously called "bud med". on sheridan around 25th, sloans lake area.

^
never been here either, it's called 3d, on brighton north of downtown


Also dragging hooks post in the colorado growers thread about DAY 1 in Colorado
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=6126189&postcount=7141

(BTW, the Colorado Growers Thread is a REAL good place to check in on if you are interested in what is going on in CO)

 

[vapedg13]

You want a live shot of bend over and take it........

I hope they drive the prices back up to the good old days When we underground growers made a good living


check out the prices and taxes this is in Colo. 1/4 ozers ...... Washington state will have twice the taxes

 

[Avinash.miles]

the Strainwise place on on South Federal had over 200 in line. Damn!

"the grove"

 

[Eureka Springs Organics]

"Thank you Miles for that report about the over priced legal weed in Denver."

"And at 5 O'Clock, we investigate the elusive 40 day strains that seem to be so popular in the marijuana shops. They don't appear to have any psychoactive effects, but they smell dank as fuck."

"Now back to Tina to tell us about how the tax revenue from recreational marijuana sales will be used to educate our children into a mild retardation."

 

[Avinash.miles]

I'm trying to focus on the positive side of things today... yes we all know prop aa passed and the product will be overpriced at first AND over taxed forever, we all know that quality at many (most) dispensaries is lacking to say the least, and even the best quality dispensaries (that I'm aware of) are inconsistent. Yes, this is true.

But, all that shit notwithstanding
it's a good day in Colorado for cannabis

personally, I'd be perfectly happy with all the over-taxation IF prop AA had allocated the funds generated by the tax... say that AFTER a certain $$$ amount was reached to cover administrative costs of med and badge processing, red card processing, etc, THEN the excess funds would go towards roads, schools.... good enough causes for me (that being said I'd never send a child of mine to a public school!!)

 

[vapedg13]

sad part is the taxes collected will also go to government parties vacations retirements wherever they see fit....sure a portion might go to state infrastructure but Im not bitchin cause the price of the oz of weed I grow just went up by $100 if I was a greedy fuck

$440 for a oz is outrageous ....I sell my topshelf in Washington now for $200 a oz ecsd pre98bubba wifi starfighter exodus cheese all clone only dang as fuck strains...stores in Washington being selling 1/8 for $60 taxed

 

[Eureka Springs Organics]

I'm trying to focus on the positive side of things today... yes we all know prop aa passed and the product will be overpriced at first AND over taxed forever, we all know that quality at many (most) dispensaries is lacking to say the least, and even the best quality dispensaries (that I'm aware of) are inconsistent. Yes, this is true.

But, all that shit notwithstanding
it's a good day in Colorado for cannabis

personally, I'd be perfectly happy with all the over-taxation IF prop AA had allocated the funds generated by the tax... say that AFTER a certain $$$ amount was reached to cover administrative costs of med and badge processing, red card processing, etc, THEN the excess funds would go towards roads, schools.... good enough causes for me (that being said I'd never send a child of mine to a public school!!)

I joke. It is indeed an incredible day. Seeing all of the lines is nothing short of amazing.

I would not send my kids to a public school either.

A side note, when it warms up we need to go rock hunting. The woman, and myself are itching to dig some shit out of the ground.

 

[Jhhnn]

You want a live shot of bend over and take it........

I hope they drive the prices back up to the good old days When we underground growers made a good living


check out the prices and taxes this is in Colo. 1/4 ozers ...... Washington state will have twice the taxes

Be nice. In Colorado, the price will settle to whatever the market will bear. What keeps that honest is the legal right to grow one's own and to give it away. Lots of people, I suspect, didn't grow for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was being a sitting duck for a bust. In Colorado, that's no longer a factor. Unless the Feds have a line on you for something else, they're apparently staying away from bothering anybody with a Colorado legal personal grow.

Dunno what there might be in WA to keep 'em honest, other than the black market. I get the impression that the liquor board wants to use taxes to limit consumption, if they can, screw over the collectives while they're at it.

 

[eventualist]

Congrats Colorado for killing the prohibition... Maybe Texas w take notice. Doubt it. No one is hard headed as texans.

Those prices look great to me, $25/gram is the street price here. Id gladly pay less for some consistency and decent quality wo the fear of prosecution.

 

[vapedg13]

legal rec weed prices should be $10 a g including taxes.... if its more than that.... your being suckered

200 a oz plus taxes 25% (fu tax) plus 2.9 % (sales tax) around $260 out the door

DENVER (AP) — Crowds were serenaded by live music as they waited for the nation's first legal recreational pot shops to open. They ate doughnuts and funnel cakes as a glass-blower made smoking pipes. Some tourists even rode around in a limo, eager to try weed but not so eager to be seen buying it.

And when the sales began, those who bought the drug emerged from the stores, receipt held high and carrying sealed shopping bags, to cheers.

"I'm going to frame the receipt when I go home, to remind myself of what might be possible: Legal everywhere," said musician James Aaron Ramsey, 28, who did some time in jail for pot possession in Missouri and played folk tunes with his guitar for those in line.

Activists hope he's right, and that the experiment in Colorado will prove to be a better alternative to the costly American-led drug war, produce the kind of revenue that state officials hope and save the government costs in locking up drug offenders.

Just on the first day, prices in some places rose to more than $500 an ounce, and some shops announced midafternoon they would close early because of short supply. It's too soon to say whether the price spikes and long lines will persist.

Washington state will open its pot industry later this year. Both states' programs will be watched closely not just by officials in other states, but by activists and governments in other countries because the industries will be the first to regulate the production and sale of the drug.
S
ome countries have decriminalized the drug, and the Netherlands lets people buy and sell it, but it's illegal to grow or process it.
Just as shops opened Wednesday, the Denver Police Department tweeted, "Do you know the law?" and linked to city websites on state and local laws that include bans on public consumption, driving under the influence, taking marijuana out of state and giving pot to anyone under 21.

Denver police said one person was issued a summons for public consumption. The Colorado State Patrol reported no pot-related incidents. No pot-related incidents were reported at Denver International Airport, where signs warned travelers that they can't take the drug home.

At least 24 pot shops in eight towns opened. In Denver, pot users welcomed the new year and the new industry by firing up bongs and cheering in a cloud of marijuana smoke at a 1920s-themed "Prohibition Is Over" party — a reference to the 1930s-era law that outlawed marijuana.

Shopper Jacob Elliott said he wrote reports in college about the need to end pot prohibition, but never thought it could happen in his lifetime.

"This breaks that barrier," said Elliott, who traveled to Colorado from Leesburg, Va., to be among the first to buy legal weed.

Preparation for the retail market started more than a year ago, soon after Colorado and Washington voters in 2012 approved legal pot industries. Uruguay passed a law in December to become the first nation to regulate pot, but regulatory system isn't in place yet.

Pot advocates, who had long pushed legalization as an alternative to the drug war, had argued it would generate revenue for state coffers — and in Colorado's case to support education — and save money by not locking up low-level drug offenders.
"I feel good about it. The money's going to schools," said shopper Joseph Torres of Denver.

The price for high-quality weed at some shops was around $400 an ounce. That's about four times what smokers are paying on the black market in Colorado, according to crowd-sourced Internet surveys. Much of the extra cost was attributed to state and local taxes in excess of 25 percent.

People who were waiting in line shared their pot incarceration stories over coffee and funnel cakes.

"Trafficking conviction. Nineteen years old. For a plant, how stupid," said 24-year-old Brandon Harris, who drove 20 hours from Blanchester, Ohio.

Colorado set up an elaborate plant-tracking system to try to keep the drug away from the black market, and regulators set up packaging, labeling and testing requirements, along with potency limits for edible pot.

The U.S. Justice Department outlined an eight-point slate of priorities for pot regulation, requiring states to keep the drug away from minors, criminal cartels, federal property and other states in order to avoid a federal crackdown.

With the additional police patrols, the airport warnings and various other measures, officials hoped they have enough safeguards in place to avoid predictions of public health and safety harm from the opening of the pot shops.

A group of addiction counselors and physicians said they're seeing more marijuana addiction problems, especially in youths, and that wider pot availability will exacerbate the problem.

"This is just throwing gas on the fire," said Ben Cort of the Colorado Center for Dependency, Addiction & Rehabilitation at the University of Colorado Hospital.

Some medical marijuana patients groups say they're worried about supply. That's because the retail inventory for recreational use is coming entirely from the preexisting medical inventory. Many in the industry warned patients to stock up before the sales began.

It was too soon to tell whether prices for medical marijuana patients were going up.

For now, they should have plenty of places to shop. Most of Colorado's 500 or so medical marijuana shops haven't applied to sell recreational pot, and many that have plan to serve both recreational and medical patients

The industry has not just given rise to shops, but a whole line of other businesses, including tours.
A
ddison Morris, owner of Rocky Mountain Mile High Tours, had 10 clients waiting inside a limo who paid $295 for three hours of chauffeuring by a "marijuana concierge" who would help them choose strains and edible pot products.

Morris said she's booked through the end of February with out-of-state clients, who get samples in designer bags. And for the tours, guests are asked to leave cameras at home. She said she's selling discretion.

"We're your grandmother's pot connection," the 63-year-old said.