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http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news...nd-be-cost
I believe the HELCO costs
alone will require that the product be priced higher than the current retail prices in Colorado -- and the Colorado retail prices are already lower than the Hawaii ("black") market price.
Makes me wonder if our lawmakers are betting on the interstate reciprocity: visiting tourists wouldn't care how expensive it was, because any price is cheaper than getting busted at the airport...
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Conventional wisdom has it that the entire Hawaii dispensary process has been designed so that only already well-to-do businesses and individuals can have a chance to use it to make themselves even wealthier.
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only already well-to-do businesses and individuals can ... make themselves even wealthier
The "missing piece" is: customers who can afford it...
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If you can grow lettuce, you can go cannabis. Just diy people.
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quote:
Originally posted by Kapoho Joe
If you can grow lettuce, you can go cannabis. Just diy people.
I know, right?
I grew up in Clark County, Kentucky. This stuff literally grew wild out on the farm lands from back in the day that Clark Co. was a big hemp producer. They couldn't eradicate it. Might as well try and eradicate milk-weed or something.
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMERF...ounty_Hemp
Personally, can't stand the smell of it. Smells like the Hulk's boxers after being lost in the jungle for a month to me. (don't ask)
(Yes, I know the semantics difference between "hemp" and "marijuana")
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the semantics difference
Is that anything like the difference between "just diy, easier than growing lettuce" and "State accepting Federal eradication dollars for helicopter joyrides"?
Seems grossly inefficient, yet somehow this is the system we have...
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There is strong indication the DEA is going to downgrade cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule II. That may happen before any Hawaii dispensaries open. The way it has happened in Washington, Oregon and Colorado, the dispensaries became redundant after recreational became legal. That is resulting in dropping prices and higher potency in the retail boutique than the dispensary.
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Actually Oregon hasn't opened retail recreation stores yet, the medical dispensaries are filling the gap and have separate sections of their storefronts for each, to buy from the dispensary sides a person has to show their medical card. That is due to change soon, but hasn't yet.
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The way the health dept is going about this dispensaries it looks like to me they hope this all falls apart . They are not going to get the dispensaries open in time because they delayed sitting the group to chose who is getting the dispensaries. From time they decide it will be 5 to 6 months before dispensaries will have any product to sell it will take them that long to grow it. They are still making them grow under lights know telling how much that going to cost. They cant have edible that is how a lot people take there meds. It would be a great idea to have reciprocity but that's not happening.
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anyone can grow weed, not everyone can grow dispensary quality buds
