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According to a news story I read one store opened up selling it for $25 per eighth, but then demand was so heavy that by the afternoon they were charging $45 per eighth, and also limiting sales to 1/8 oz per customer even though the law allows sale of up to one ounce at a time. Same as gunstores or other dealers that sold .22 bricks for $20 and then started selling them for $50 or higher as supplies ran out while demand increased.

Apparently right now demand has driven the price of legal pot higher that what was charged for illegal stuff. As soon as supply catches up with demand, which could be a few months since you can�t just produce the stuff, it has to grow, prices will level out. Also, many stores that had planned to sell didn�t have their licenses or paperwork processed in time.

It�s just another drug, same as alcohol and nicotine. Once the hoopla dies down it will just be another commodity and somehow, despite overwhelming odds, the sun will continue to rise each day.

we have to put up with advertisements right now on the local radio stations, advertising a medical Marijuana expo locally, later this month, with "industry representatives" from all over Oregon in attendance....

This is a legalized expo for drug dealers in my book, with the 'excuse' that it is for "medical reasons"...

hell old moonshiners down south use to maintain, moonshine was for medicinal use also...

Sure it can help out some people who have debilitating medical conditions... but I believe that involves less than 10 % of the people who are carrying medical Marijuana cards here in Oregon...

the local radio stations even sell air time, for these so called clinics, telling you to come in and they can help you navigate your way thru the paperwork to obtain a medical marijuana card..

its just some more leftist BS shoved down our throats....

Seafire--What do you have against freedom?

It's going to open up a lot of opportunity for those that don't partake.

It's the one industry hiring right now in Colorado.

Don't worry. As people dope it up, more and more will lose motivation and more jobs will open up.

I sure as hell wouldn't have a doper working for me.

And things never change.

After 5 days of legal pot, everyone in Colorado is reduced to consuming illegal pot along with the rest of the U.S.

The clandestine growers as well as the cartels are Happy Happy Happy.

I agree. But, as an employer, you can make that a condition of employment, that employees must pass a drug screen, much the way you can't be drunk on the job...although you can legally buy booze.

This can't be true!!!! For years I've been reading here on the Fire that if pot were legalized the prices would plummet and all would be peace and harmony. Now that weed is twice as expensive as before I'm sure crime and cartels have vanished.....

I saw an article this morning that said stores in CO are accepting EBT for pot sales.


How long do you think it will take the lefties to get a law passed saying you can't punish workers for being high on company hours?

What a nightmare. If it's legalized, the state should just step back and close their eyes. I doubt that there was anything at all in the ballot measure about legalizing recreational use in Colorado to suggest the state establish a new but inefficient regulatory bureaucracy.

If we want market efficiency, let the private sector handle things. Now I have two reasons to avoid Colorado.

Hell in a handbasket - I hope it doesn't happen here, but I really don't have much faith.

What was the old saying? Reality is crutch for those that can't handle drugs. I'm having so much fun with reality, I don't have time to do anything else.

I say this because a lot of what I read here is right wing people are against near anything that hints of freedom. I may not have brain one , but it is at least not washed.

The state will make $25 million off this, and will spend $26 million.

At least they're making tax money off of it.

Of course they have to pay for government inspectors, tax officials, bureaus, committees, and the cops have simply transitioned from arresting potheads to arresting potheads that didn't pay the .gov tax and trying to sort that mess out.

But it's still a money maker for the citizens because the government is so efficient. I'd expect Colorado citizens to be getting a break on their state income tax this year because of the huge budget surplus.

Yep, Colorado is a lighthouse of freedom.

We have a lot of capacity that will be coming online in the next year. Within 2 years it will be back to $125 an ounce for top shelf.

I'm not sure I believe that. In this state you can't buy the wrong brand of milk on an EBT card.

Over the years I've known a number of people who used Dr. prescribed medications for various health issues.
Some of them eventually got to the point where their health improved enough that they could, and did willingly reduce the strength and/or frequency of their dosage.
The health of some of those actually improved enough to where they no longer needed any Dr. prescribed medications.

I can't help but wonder how many of the 'medicinal marijuana' card carrying users will be anywhere near as fortunate to ever see the day that their health problems improve to the point that they willing surrender their medical cards.

Why do people have an issue with people who use MJ for whatever reason?

I don't. I have an issue with your stupid notion that Colorado is "free".