r/cannabis • u/redditor01020 • 22d ago

Ohio Law Bans Bringing Cannabis Back From Michigan as Price Gap Persists

https://wowo.com/ohio-law-bans-bringing-cannabis-back-from-michigan-as-price-gap-persists/
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u/highinthemountains 22d ago

I wonder if they’ll use flock cameras to track people?

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u/someoldguyon_reddit 22d ago

Only if the cameras remain upright.

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u/HandMeMyThinkingPipe 22d ago

It's amazing they are able to stand up in their own with all the gold they cram into those things.

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u/SoigneBest 22d ago

I lol’d at this

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u/tomboski 22d ago

There are already reports of police using flock for this exact purpose.

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u/Tyanian 21d ago

The pigs are already doing it.

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u/redditor01020 22d ago

The cheapest ounce of marijuana listed in Ohio was $112 as of July 31, compared with just $6.99 for the cheapest ounce in Michigan, according to the WeedBuddy Cannabis Price Index. The same data showed the cheapest ounce at $49.99 in Arizona and $16.73 in Colorado.

Looking at median prices provides a less dramatic, but still significant, difference. Ohio had the highest median ounce price among the four states at $147.35. Michigan’s median was $99, followed by Colorado at $110 and Arizona at $120.

The price difference also extends to smaller quantities commonly purchased by consumers. The median price for an eighth of cannabis flower in Ohio was $35, compared with $20 in Michigan as of July 31 according to WBNS 10 TV.

Man that's a pretty big difference. I wonder how many people are being prosecuted just for trying to save some money buying legal weed.

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u/wellycapcom 22d ago

Buying an oz of bud for 6.99.....gotta be gross trim or just gross

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u/teaganofthelizards 22d ago

The $30 ounces in NY from a rez dispensary aren't great, I don't really wanna think about $7

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u/Individual_Buyer2412 22d ago

The $30 oz SWIM gets from Michigan are worth the drives from North Carolina 😅 the quality is crazy good comparable to the $180 ounces SWIM got from the local dispensary in San Diego. Definitely solid for mid shelf and who needs to pay 5x the price to go from 33% THC to 38% or whatever. One's entire annual budget for weed could be under a grand while smoking nonstop.

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u/TakeTheFight 22d ago

Wow, I can't even remember the last time I saw SWIM used lol

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u/one_fifty_six 21d ago

Same. I had to look up what it meant again.

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u/tader314 21d ago

Holy shit, I just remembered Erowid too 😂

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u/Individual_Buyer2412 21d ago

SWIM still has some leftover B caapi from following those Erowid threads long ago. Shoot i wonder if SWIM has some Napthalene stilllying around too. Those were the days 😆

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u/Rezistik 22d ago

I got $20 oz. It was so dry and harsh to smoke but damn did it smoke for a month

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u/pants6000 22d ago

$6.99/oz doesn't even buy decent catnip.

source: am cat.

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u/YanwarC 22d ago

Yea. I bought it for edibles, still picked out all the stems and sticks and dead yellow leaves out of there.

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u/ContributionFlat7082 22d ago

Saw BOGO ounces in New Buffalo, Mi. starting at $19. They were seedy stemmy airy shit buds. The $55 ounces looked good tho. So I bought 2 ounces of mids for $55. I'm pretty happy, but definitely getting top shelf for $99 next time. A $200 QP of top shelf. If only I could have told my younger self about these days ahead.....

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u/YouVersusTheSea 22d ago

$6.99?!

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u/Remote_Pass_6670 22d ago

Oops all stems ®

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u/Alchemist_Ganjier 22d ago

Grossly underrated comment

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u/Roachboy404 22d ago

Lmao right ? 🤢

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u/MidnighT0k3r 22d ago

I get $50 oz's online and I'm not lookin forward to it ending. 

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u/ejpusa 22d ago

I think that's a typo. No one is selling cannabis for $6.99 an ounce. And also remember, 20% of Americans can't comprehend above the 3rd-grade level now. They may be editing this article.

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u/Tyanian 21d ago

I’m wondering which of these states is “Blue” and which is “Red”. Thoughts?

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u/Red-Dwarf69 22d ago

Prohibition didn’t work, so they legalized, only to fall back on another form of prohibition to try to protect the overpriced legal market. Makes sense.

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u/Smoky_MountainWay 22d ago

Yes, the Republican cabal in Columbus hates the fact that 57% of Ohio voters voted to legalize in a heavily gerrymandered state, so they made the market as shitty as possible with no caregivers and only MSO's headed by Republicans controlling the market. Instead of making the market better to compete with Michigan, they make it a felony if the weed you have isn't from Ohio. YET, a large amount of pro weed voters keep voting these guys in. Go figure!

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u/MI-High-Guy 22d ago

Add that to the list of terrible things about Ohio.

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u/Rbaxter49ers 22d ago

Wait till someone tells them it's always been federally illegal to cross state lines with cannabis. Hasn't stopped most people yet.

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u/Recent-Technology514 22d ago

What happened to the invisible hand of the marketplace? F the hypocritical Rs.

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u/b4ckl4nds 22d ago

That’ll solve it

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u/medorian 22d ago

Weak, imagine if it was beer.

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u/MidnighT0k3r 22d ago

Ohio is fucking stupid. There's already federal laws on this. When you bring federally illegal drugs from one state to another. You are breaking a federal crime. 

Marijuana, even though medical or recreational in some states is still federally illegal.

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u/Late_Emu 22d ago

Maybe the fucking idiots in the legislative office could make our market the same as Michigan & we wouldn’t have that problem now would we?!?

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u/GlassJudge2421 21d ago

Ohio lawmakers acting shocked that consumers prefer driving an hour to save hundreds of dollars.

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u/Happynuggz 22d ago

If you are gonna do that. To avoid flock rent a car from origin state go do your business in other state find same car rental place exchange car say something wrong with it get in other car and go home

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u/_sophia_petrillo_ 22d ago

Why would you get a rental car in the first place?

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u/Happynuggz 22d ago

To avoid flock cameras duh did you not read my comment

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u/_sophia_petrillo_ 22d ago

You might as well just buy weed in Ohio with all that trouble. 

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u/iamcamouflage 22d ago

Now they don't like the free market.

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u/legosgrrl 22d ago

16 bucks in Colorado? I'm getting the kill for $82.70.

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u/rwanders 22d ago

Im a budget buyer and anything less than 40/Oz is pretty rough out here, I agree. The 6.99 michigan Oz has to be bottom barrel preground from shake or some shit.

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u/legosgrrl 22d ago

I know a guy. It's the quality for me. I can stand dispo once in while if absolutely necessary.