Would the price drop?

[hkush]

How much of tax would make it okay to you to grow legit?

None. They do not deserve to tax it, and there is no way they can tax your personal grow. But let them think they can if they are that stupid.

Tell Ahhnold out in Cali you agree, it should be legal and taxed. Then stiff the dumb fucker on the tax when it gets legalized. There's about 50 years worth of payback being a bitch before they can consider charging a tax on what should never have been illegal.

 

[badmf]

I never thought of that, but it almost seems like that would have to be the case.

If a grower who supplys med clubs got significantly lower $$$$ from them, they would sell it elsewhere, so the price is almost the same for co-ops as it is on the street. The co-ops also price according to the "competition" even if they can get theirs in larger bulk and lower prices, they still charge roughly the same.
Now if it became legal things would change some but not much. It would take a lot of commercial interests to saturate the market to lower the prices and that wouldn't be in their best interests. So as with all commodities would get controlled by the interests involved. Not a simple solution but it would be nice to grow in "yer own backyard", right?

 

[toastfighter2]

Personally, I feel that if it it ever legalized, the price's may drop a little, but won't drop down too far for "decent smoke". If you think that our gov. here won't put a tax on it(a very high one at that), you don't ever look at your pay stub(yes, they take money from you just because you earned it), but in the same breath, I would pay it gladly just to have a better nights sleep. I don't know how many times I find myself walking to the door every time that I hear something outside, and it would be a great relief to not have to worry about the LEO an DEA types coming to my door(although, they may have to do inspections for "farmers" and their "farms", especially indoor ones.)

 

[fsaebud]

Overnight half the people on this site could become grow consultants, wiring experts, ventilation experts, DIY experts, pesticide experts, hydroponic experts, MJ marketing experts, the real money would be in helping all the newb's that think they will get rich growing weed.

i think seed prices would skyrocket overnight. and allot of people would find it hard to keep up with demand of good genetics and clones would also experience this type of price increase as more people would rather grow from select clones than have to sex out seeds. along with that not everybody can grow at the same level as some people on here so there is always the learning curve that growers who have experience can benifit from financialy.

the demand for good grown stuff would increase as most people don't want to smoke swag or mids if they can find dank even if the prices is high they would still buy it because a little gos along way. Supply would increase while the demand would only slightly increase and at some point sink lower once people get up to speed growing there own outside or inside.

if anything i think it will go the way of the wines and beers (1 - 500 dollar bottles depending on a magnitude of things).

 

[rootfingers]

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.. . the way I see it decrim or legal is inevitable... One thing that hasn't been mentioned here is that a grower of real medicine grade marijuana, when the price drops will still make more because they can ramp up operations a little for taxes (which I will have more philosophical reason to pay than not so long is it is taxed fair like any other agri-product) and then retail it themselves. Fuck selling off multi-poundage to some middle man (for the safety of not having one's own network like many do now) and makin him rich. Just hire a few folks at a generous hourly (with possible commission ?) to sell it off small, even at 40 and eight they'd be doing just fine. Plus you'd be creating jobs!

One negative thing I'd say might happen in our community is that more folks are going to try and get into this thing late (after it is legal, it'll seem like a perfect cash crop with no risk to joe blo) which will create serious competition. Then folks who have been around for a bit will shutter their doors as far as trading their genetics and sharing freely. I guess this could go the other way too, I hope it does... just can't trust people and greed.

 

[hempzi]

I really want to say something like: When pot is legal it, it'll probably be legal to grow for everyone under age so therefore how much will pot cost? Idk, how much do cfls and a couple of computer fans cost. Its up to us to spread the knowledge man. Pot should be free.

But in reality, its a cottage industry and it should, and probably will stay that way. I'm sure although a lot of industrial growrooms will be set up to sell to the larger suppliers of coffeeshops/dispensaries/pharmacy/supermarket/potstore's, but I'm also confident that a lot of growing will stay at the size that the majority commercial growing in the US(that I've seen atleast) is at right now,mid sized grows. People who have their basement or garage or a warehouse filled with rows of plants, earning extra income. And there's sure as hell going to be buds going over the internet. Log on. Pick what you feel like smoking. White Rhino? Sure, enter your pin and it'll be at your door before the next Netflix. Everything is cheaper on internetz. I'm not saying it would be a free for all, because they'll try to regulate it up the butt, but people will have a lot of options. And this could be the bees knees cannabis cup quality shit with a crazy name off the internet, or some ak from the guy down the street that came out alright, or the okay outdoor you got a huge sack of for cheap. Will it go down overall? Depends, I guess, sure. If the percent collected in taxes from a grower or seller is less than the percent of the price that was previously accounted for as risk money as the product exchanged hands in smaller quantities on down the line. So if we're not taxed that bad, sure it'll go down overall, but there will still definitely be a large variety in price as there is a variety in quality of product and methods of obtaining/ it. Hope that made sense. I'm exhausted and this master kush is all about putting me to sleep. nite icmag.

 

[Greyskull]

so, before prohibition, what was the cost of alcohol.... say 1gallon of premium whiskey?
and what was the cost of said gallon of premium whiskey during prohibiton?
and after prohibition, leading to present day...

what is the cost history of alcohol?

i think the cost history of alcohol will prvide us a clear answer as history has a way of repeating itself.....

 

[FreedomFGHTR]

Hrmmm.

The price initially would probably see a spike as demand would surge with supply limited. I would expect higher prices for the first 6 months. Then as new crops come to market the price would drop as growers would be able to command premiums with all the product out there. And then as the years progress there will be specialty packaging and marketing of brand name cannabis products. Particular area's say Humboldt for example would be like what napa is, known for producing really high quality cannabis and farmers will probably market on their own label.

Ofcourse this is assuming their are no controls in price to artificaly elevate the price.