re: Colorado Sees Marijuana Prices Soar After Legalization

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My wife will smoke occasionally.

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so of your comparative "6 cups of coffee" per day, we're down to 5?

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sorry northshore, i was looking at the 800 dollars per month figure and jumped to an oz a week. i was misled. the real number you spend is closer to 400 per month?

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To clarify the $800 per month number came from the news report that said an ounce was going for $400 in Colorado and that was only the high end of an estimate that also included a low end of $300 per ounce. Later on he clarified that he's spending $200 per ounce and I corrected the numbers to illustrate the same calculations with $200 per ounce as a basis.

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so of your comparative "6 cups of coffee" per day, we're down to 5?

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Actually if he's spending $400 per month, using the average price of coffee in the US as a basis, that translates into 10 cups of coffee daily that the average coffee drinker would have to purchase to spend the same on coffee as he does on pot. As to who consumes the pot or coffee, that's a moot point since we're only discussing the cost of the product and not it's consumption.

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Or, grown by illegal producers, right?

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I doubt a dispensary is going to risk their license to sell black market product.

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Is there a limit on the amount those growers can produce or are they limited to 6 plants each which another poster mentioned earlier in this thread?

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I'm not sure about a limit but I'm sure they can grow more than 6 plants. I do know they have cameras in the grow sites that feed directly to the state commission that oversees the program.

Vajeen is next

here is a good article explaining why price is high right now.

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s there a limit on the amount those growers can produce or are they limited to 6 plants each which another poster mentioned earlier in this thread?

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I don't know the grower limit, but it has to be way more than the personal plant limit. I saw a guy on cnn earlier who has 5000 plants with plans to triple that amount by next year.

And if you know how to grow your own, you'll spend next to nothing on weed.

Stop trying to harsh our good time, dude.

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I was not the one that brought up the pot vs. coffee price comparison.

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You just took it seriously. It was meant to be a joke about how much people spend on coffee in the NW. It failed.

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I wonder if there has been any national studies on this matter that gives an average. I'm guessing it's probably somewhere between the 2 ounces the Bama guy said he consumes and the 1/4 ounce (or less) you say is average.

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Most pot smokers I've known usually smoke at least a joint or a bowl or two a night. But who knows, I may have just always known heavy smokers.

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I do know they have cameras in the grow sites that feed directly to the state commission that oversees the program.

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Which gives a whole new meaning to the old saying "as interesting as watching grass grow."