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Originally Posted by Hitch
Speaking of, I was shocked (and vexed) the other day to see a legal pot shop (I guess we can't call them headshops any more...) by my home, sorta. Shocked because I'd missed it, in the last decade, somehow, that they'd sprung up, and vexed because I'd always sworn that if and when it became legal, I wanted a franchise. Humorously--can't abide the stuff. Hate the smell, and have zero use for it. Troo, really. BUT...money on the hoof, if I'd gotten in when it was legalized. (Only recently, here in AZ.) Now, I concur with Dennis--too many, too much competition and apparently some of the er, older dealers are objecting to the legal shops.
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I was deeply amused when NY State Governor Cuomo legalized medical marijuana in NYS. A friend who lives in the state capitol of Albany said "He didn't want to do to, and did it more or less over his own dead body." I said "It doesn't mattter
why he did it. The key fact is that he
did it! The camel's nose is now in the tent, and the rest of the camel will be in shortly." I just
know there are folks in NYC govenment rubbing their hands and salivating over the tax revenues they can get if recreational marijuana gets legalized and you can buy it over the counter in the same places you buy tobacco products. I don't see unhappiness by traditional street dealers being a huge factor. Those folks all moved to higher priced and higher margined drugs, like opiates, amphetamines, and cocaine. I haven't seen a street dealer seilling pot in decades.
But it will take recreational marijuana becoming legal in far more places to have a market that will support all the folks who jumped into being growers. The folks like the BC growers Charlie was talking about who found export markets are a minority of the total involved. Most were interested in the domestic market, and may be unable to find export opportunities.
Meanwhile, various latecomers to the domestic market won't make it. The market for medical marijuana isn't big enough to support all of the current growers.
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Dennis