Pot shops

[madmudder]

http://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/ ... s-approved

Difference in price of 100.00 an ounce. Black market will win everytime. Plus you can't find a GP doctor in this valley that will prescribe medical marijuana. Most people are buying from these pot shops illegally.

[southy]

http://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/182939/2-dispensaries-approved

Difference in price of 100.00 an ounce. Black market will win everytime. Plus you can't find a GP doctor in this valley that will prescribe medical marijuana. Most people are buying from these pot shops illegally.

And you know this how?

[maryjane48]

Most people are buying from these pot shops illegally.

and your proof is?

[LANDM]

http://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/182939/2-dispensaries-approved

Difference in price of 100.00 an ounce. Black market will win everytime. Plus you can't find a GP doctor in this valley that will prescribe medical marijuana. Most people are buying from these pot shops illegally.

You can walk into a pot shop in Vancouver and buy killer weed for $7 per gram. They have "sales" and incentives just like any other retailer. And you just walk in, chat, examine the product, and buy. Put it on the MasterCard if you want. Buy a joint, or buy an ounce. Roll it there and walk out. It is just like going into a tea shop.

It is full of 50+ year olds who wouldn't be able to, and no longer wish to, find a black market source. It's normal retail, in a comfortable environment. I have no idea what an ounce of really good black market stuff would cost so I don't know if your claim is correct. The shop price is $196/ounce, so your claim is black market for $96/oz. I don't want to say whether that it true or not, but I can say that I doubt it, and there wouldn't be the ability to chat about the different strains and look everything over to make the choice.

Like everything else, the convenience is worth the price for many. Or just the basic ability to buy it.

And, frankly, the quality is so good that a little goes a long way.

[ToddT]

The safety and security of the pot shops combined with the current overdose epidemic made me not even try to buy illegally while they were temporarily shut down by the city. I just waited until they opened back up.

Quite frankly in my experience, the legality of it is a moot point. It really does take it off the streets.

[LTD]

no ones overdosing on pot

[steve mc]

pot shop are black market street price 100.00 a ounce

[maryjane48]

people need remember , medicine and rec weed will be priced diff .

[twobits]

people need remember , medicine and rec weed will be priced diff .

I have to agree with that in a general sense. Specialty strains with less market demand, one would expect to cost more. I know the variety that my 86 yo mother uses for arthritis and bone pain relieve is bred to have very low psycho active qualities and costs about 50% more than strains that do.
I think the biggest problem with public conception of the product is they see all "weed" as being the same thing. It's not. To do so is as erroneous as saying all "headache" meds at the Pharmacy are the same. The difference between Bayer Aspirin, Tylenol, and Alieve is huge. Different chemical compounds altogether and people tolerate and benefit from them very differently.

As a side note.....my mother has two cupboards full of meds that were tried in the past five years that came from big pharmacy. She changed doctors a year ago and on my suggestion asked the doctor about trying Med Weed. The new doctor said it would not hurt to try and they did. It took four months of four different varieties with the help of a dispensary in Victoria to find one that worked really well. Far better than any Pharmacy drug ever came close to. The ultimate kicker to this story is ma's new doctor is a hijab wearing gal from Syria.

[steve mc]

you dont smoke medicine

[twobits]

you dont smoke medicine

Where in my post did I say ma smoked it?

[Ptolemy Soter]

you dont smoke medicine

You don't deserve an opinion.