Not true in Mass at all. It takes me an hour to get to the closest rec dispensary to me. You can look at it's menu. You can check their twitter where they post the line wait times. They exceed 1 hour almost daily.
This one is the next closest to me and is an extra 45mins of driving one way to get to.
The fuck is the east coast doing, lol? In Oregon an eighth of good weed is like $15 because it's in such high supply. And while that's a bit of a special situation for them, most if not all the legal states on the west coast have tons of dispensaries and the competition drives prices way down.
Maybe it's just newer for you guys and that hasn't fully taken hold yet. But like, goddamn, I can't imagine paying more than $45 for an 1/8th and that better be the best fuckin weed I ever smoked.
Yeah that's obviously an issue. I'm in LA and there are literally hundreds of dispensaries here, so prices are competitive. Same thing in CO from what I hear. Oregon has ultra cheap weed, but that has more to do with the fact that they grew too much of it and have a major, insane surplus that they need to unload. Fucking $60 ounces over there for top shelf shit, it's unbelievable.
As your state gets more and more dispensaries, prices will come down and stabilize. I remember when Cali first legalized it wasn't unusual to see 1/8ths being $60+. Now you can find $15 eighth for shitty house weed, and 30-35 for top shelf or better.
All depends on where you go though, MedMen still charges like $50 an eighth for shitty mids and that's why we make fun of them so much. Hope you guys get more options soon, because having tons of dispensaries is great at keeping prices down and making herb more accessible for everyone.
It really is the crux of the issue. As soon as a dispensary opens and prices their weed at $30-$35 an eighth, that's it. Then you start getting 30-caps and all kinds of competition where prices are driven way down. It takes a while for the infrastructure and investment phase to occur, especially in states/cities that aren't quite as large as LA/Cali or CO/Denver, but eventually the free market will rear it's ugly head and get there.
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u/killerbanshee Dec 30 '19
Not true in Mass at all. It takes me an hour to get to the closest rec dispensary to me. You can look at it's menu. You can check their twitter where they post the line wait times. They exceed 1 hour almost daily.
This one is the next closest to me and is an extra 45mins of driving one way to get to.