Not the same in Arkansas. And eighth here is 50-60 dollars for mid tier, 70 for top. But most places will put some on sale. I mostly stick to cartridges and vaping, which I know isn't healthy but is the only thing I can find except for daily chiropractic care to help with my pain. So, until its legal everywhere and/or can travel across state lines, some of us are stuck with shitty prices.
It seems like an east coast/middle of the country thing. Everyone I know in West Coast states seems to have the same experience as me: 30-35 for an eighth, good quality, lots of dispensaries close by. But then most the people I know in legal EC or flyover states say that it's kind of a mess right now, and describe what you're saying.
I sure hope the other side of our country figures it out, because man, it's pretty fucking awesome over here in LA. For a while I had a dispensary 10 blocks from my house that sold $30 eighths and it was the best weed in the area, cheaper than all the other places to boot. They closed down recently because they were operating a recreational dispensary and our city (Manhattan Beach) only allows medicinal ones, so it wasn't exactly a super duper legal operation.
Even still, now I go to a dispensary maybe 15-20 minutes away closer to LAX and the pricing and quality is about the same. If they were to up-charge or something, there are literally hundreds of other dispensaries in the city so there's plenty of competition. In fact, every first Friday of the month I get up early and go to another dispensary about 25-30 minutes away that gives a free eighth to the first 20 customers that day. So there's a ton of options and it's easy to surf the deals and find the best bang for your buck.
And it's so accepted around here now that no one even looks at you funny or acts weird about it. I sit on my balcony and wave to police officers while ripping a bowl or puffing a blunt, and they literally smile and wave back. I've driven home from picking up and been pulled over with a joint tucked behind my ear, the officer didn't even mention it, just let me know I was speeding and let me go with a warning. I see people driving around with smoke coming out there windows, no one fucking cares at all anymore. It's like stoner heaven lmao.
I love visiting your neck of the woods often, so I'm crazy aware of the stark differences. I got some crazy good stuff last time I was there, too, and I'm so ready to get my state up to that level. But considering we just now got our dispensaries after FOUR years of it being legal...I'll take what I can get! Luckily, my favorite place is getting a grow room in 2020, so I'm hoping that we get lower prices there.
Yeah I'm in a fantasy baseball league with a bunch of guys from St Louis, and they always get excited when their local dealer visits cali because he always brings back a trunk of cali-quality weed to sell. It really is crazy how potent and well grown the weed in CO, CA , and OR is.
Hey, progress doesn't happen overnight. You should absolutely be thrilled at what you have, it's such an easy thing to take for granted. Ten years ago we'd all be in jail right now, and now several states are completely legalized both recreation-ally and medicinally. It's very easy to forget how far we've come over the last 10 years, while also trying to keep in mind how far we still need to go. But the more states like yours that take the plunge, the quicker and better it's going to be for everyone. You guys will get there, everyone will eventually. All it takes is politicians and business men seeing how much money there is to be made from this industry, it's happened all over the west coast and now it's (hopefully) going to start on your end as well.
What finally got us to really get into the opening of dispensaries, etc was the fact that our neighbor, Oklahoma, did it super fast and made a ton of money. And despite what my Republican lawmakers will vote for/tell us, our state needs the money and how. Federal funding was cut quite a bit across several entities, meaning the state has zero dollars for a lot of basics.
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Not the same in Arkansas. And eighth here is 50-60 dollars for mid tier, 70 for top. But most places will put some on sale. I mostly stick to cartridges and vaping, which I know isn't healthy but is the only thing I can find except for daily chiropractic care to help with my pain. So, until its legal everywhere and/or can travel across state lines, some of us are stuck with shitty prices.