Tales from the store....

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-17-2019, 01:53 AM

Sounds like the contrast between California's legal pot market and its pot black market. Legal, um, potteries statewide did like 3.6 million dollars last month (I think) and the black market at the same time did over 8 mill.

Seems it's a compliance-cost + overhead + licensing + you-can't-bank-transact-it thing.
This is after four years' notice, mind. Now is definitely not the hour to get into the booming pot biz. The state doesn't want to get into the details of regulation and ordinances too deeply, and the counties and cities are doing things piecemeal. Some counties are smokin' da kine, others are the equivalent of dry counties.

The mess is not being instantly resolved; short-term at least, this is very awkward.

Griff · 08-17-2019, 07:39 AM

New York is a damn train wreck in the pot department. Their habit is to over-regulate. Legal pot exists as an idea, with doctors getting a cut and limited over-priced dispensaries. If they had a lick of sense the state would make a tidy income but instead it remains a black market product with all the criminality and safety issues that harbors.

08-17-2019, 01:53 AM	#1
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Sounds like the contrast between California's legal pot market and its pot black market. Legal, um, potteries statewide did like 3.6 million dollars last month (I think) and the black market at the same time did over 8 mill. Seems it's a compliance-cost + overhead + licensing + you-can't-bank-transact-it thing. This is after four years' notice, mind. Now is definitely not the hour to get into the booming pot biz. The state doesn't want to get into the details of regulation and ordinances too deeply, and the counties and cities are doing things piecemeal. Some counties are smokin' da kine, others are the equivalent of dry counties. The mess is not being instantly resolved; short-term at least, this is very awkward. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

08-17-2019, 07:39 AM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	New York is a damn train wreck in the pot department. Their habit is to over-regulate. Legal pot exists as an idea, with doctors getting a cut and limited over-priced dispensaries. If they had a lick of sense the state would make a tidy income but instead it remains a black market product with all the criminality and safety issues that harbors. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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