re: Colorado Sees Marijuana Prices Soar After Legalization

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Is this issue of tolerance one of the reasons many people refer to marijuana as a 'gateway' drug? After a while, a user might move up to a harder (stronger) illegal substance in order to get his 'high'?

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I never took it as a tolerance issue. I always thought it as a gateway drug, because some people had the attitude of "Well I tried one illegal drug, why not try another?"

The gateway drug narrative has declined in recent years IMO since it's more widely accepted.

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Weed is not really like that.

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I hear you but read the info below.

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Higher Rates of Alcohol, Drug Problems

"By studying twins, we were able to compare pairs of individuals of the same age, same family background and -- in the case of identical twins -- individuals with exactly the same genes," Lynskey explains. "But these twins differed in one important respect: One had chosen to begin using cannabis before 17, but the other had not."

By the time these twins were interviewed in their late 20s and early 30s, the early marijuana users had developed higher rates of problems with alcohol and other drugs. Some 46 percent reported that they later abused or became dependent upon marijuana, and 43 percent had become alcohol dependent.

The early marijuana users also used other drugs at higher rates, including cocaine and other stimulants (48 percent) heroin and other opioids (14 percent) and hallucinogens (35 percent).

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LINK

The underlined part makes me wonder.

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$60 for an eighth doesn't look too bad now

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only bitches pay that much

how cool was Woodstock?


just kiddin bro

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putting the street value at $400-$480 for an oz.

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it's more like 3

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putting the street value at $400-$480 for an oz.

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Ehh I'd go with anywhere from $250-$400, maybe my guy is just cheap though

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Supply and demand.

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Exactly. It's the first fricking day. Let the market set the price over time.

Someone who goes thru an ounce every 2 weeks is either wasting a ton, or is just a big time pothead who sits at home playing video games all day. If sharing with other people then it would make more sense. I'd say am ounce would last around 4 weeks for 1 person on average

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this whole coffee argument is retarded,

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For the love of all that is good, it's not a fricking argument. That came from a joking discussion I was having with a guy who said something about "people spending that much on coffee" or something along those lines. That gave me a idea to do a compare and contrast on pot vs. coffee. I goggled it and found the average price of a cup of coffee in the US sits at $1.38. You do know what "average" means, right? That means that's the price in the middle. Being in the middle means there will be coffee prices much lower (gas stations) and much higher (Starbucks). The norm when comparing two things is to look at the "average". Had I an agenda here I would have taken the low end of the coffee scale (.50 cent at the gas station) and compared it only to the highest pot number ($400 per ounce on Colorado) to try and "prove" whatever anti-pot point you think I was trying to make. But that is not what I did.

And for the record... The only retarded argument to be had here is you getting too damn paranoid and defensive over your pot. Here's a hint for all the pot smokers out there... Stop being so fricking defensive when someone who does not smoke pot wants to have a discussion on the subject. You come off as being paranoid and it's quite off putting and only serves to hurt your "cause".

Your comparison is still taking the average of one thing (coffee) and comparing it to the top end of another (marijuana), then proceed to talk about it for 5 pages of discussion like it's some sort of relevant comparison.

And what leads you to believe that I am a pot smoker, and therefore paranoid about something?