Re: Colorado Weed Market Collapsing

Of course illegal weed is cheaper.
This is the result of the heavy taxes placed on the legal
cannabis products.
The state is expecting to get lots of taxes for good causes
but cannabis users cannot pay for the good causes all-by
-themselves. Tax the dangerous over-the-counter drugs like
alcohol, tobacco and other nicotine products and aspirin
which sometime people use to kill or at least severely
disable themselves.

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/09/colorado-weed-market-00157118
 On Jan. 1, 2014, Iraq War veteran Sean Azzariti made
headlines worldwide as the first person in the U.S. to
buy legal weed.
 More than 10 years later, 3D Cannabis, the dispensary
in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood where the historic
purchase was made, displays a makeshift sign announcing
it is “temporarily closed.” The windows and doors on the
side of the building have been boarded up. Plastic bags,
discarded coffee cups and other trash collect in the
corners of the abandoned parking lot.
 The dismal state of the historic site is a fitting
symbol of the plight of Colorado’s cannabis market.
What once was a success story has now left a trail
of failed businesses and cash-strapped entrepreneurs
in its wake. Regulatory burdens, an oversaturated
market and increasing competition from nearby states
have all landed major blows, leaving other states
with newer marijuana markets scrambling to avoid
the same mistakes.
 . . .
   The thick regs, the prices, they were sort-of intended
  to protect and sanely regulate - but they would up being
  the DOOM of the trade.
   Illegal sources can supply better to more for less.
   Out-of-State providers can undercut.
   For anti-dope crusaders ... weed is the LEAST of the
  problems these days. Seems like EVERYTHING is saturated
  with Fentanyl/Tranq or WORSE and can be had CHEAP on
  the streets. The govt has FAR more important practical
  and political concerns and won't/can't cope. The
  Mexican cartels have OVERWHELMED any "system".

Well that is why I buy only from legal sources my edible cannabis
products which are Wilde and Kanha products in the form of
gummy candies containin a predetermined amount of THC.
Sativa 5 mg. for pain in the day or early evening and
Indica 10 mg. to aid my slumber. Plenty of products in the legal
market and have diverse sources and doses.
Oh I get discounts because I am a steady customer spending
from $60 to $100 in a monthly visit then the products
are stored in a refrigerator. I live on less than maximum
Social Security payments.
I don't use cannabis often for fun anymore and have stopped
smoking because it causes pain and stimulates my coughing
reflex which coughing causes more pain.

   And that's the state of things.
   Not SHIT that can be done about it. We will have
  to wait and see what the next gen feels about it
  all. Might be better, might be worse  ...
   If worse ... well ... do you prefer Russian,
  Iranian or Chinese dictators ? NOT kidding.

I would prefer a benign President to any idiot who thinks
he is capable of running a whole nation and all its parts
at his whim.
bliss *the retired, anti-prohibitionist nurse and cannabis
using patient at 86 yoa.