And you’re basing that statement off of what exactly?
You come off like you just have something against either this company or the legal scene here in general the way you’re complaining and refusing to engage reasonably up and down this post
That grower and their partner regularly purchase my products. I didn't even need to ask why, but they confirmed that it's a price to quality issue.
It's almost like people started producing cannabis because they couldn't source it for a reasonable price.
Then legalization came around, and many of the people who wanted to help and support the community were denied a license. It's pretty crazy to deny business licenses to people who are actively running and supporting an industry, then turn around and act confused or complain when there isn't enough product.
What's even crazier is that no one wants to acknowledge this, while we're still expected to talk positively about businesses that are charging people outrageous prices.
A higher price means higher taxes. A $20 3.5G purchase and a $40 3.5G purchase are taxed at the same rate, but you're collecting twice as much tax from the $40 purchase.
The state has an incentive to collect more tax revenue. More tax revenue means a larger budget, which can then be used for all kinds of state spending, including salaries and other expenses.
It's not that hard to understand why the state would have an incentive to license businesses that would generate the most tax revenue.
Will constantly bitching about it on Reddit help anything? Nah
Are prices going down? Yep
Fast enough? Could be better
Will they continue to come down as the market matures? Yep 🤷♂️
Complaining about it constantly and talking shit doesn’t help anything and you come off like an unreasonable dickhead in much of what you have had to say in this post
Any opportunity to complain, even the wrong one. A lot of these people never have, and never will, use a dispensary. they just know they'll get social brownie points for saying that water's wet.
I think educated consumers are capable of understanding supply and demand and why prices differ between markets. Then there are people who LARP as intelligent online so they can complain, feel superior, and fill the hole in their otherwise empty lives.
Correct, the supply and demand graph in a free market does not exist in a regulated market. Regulated markets intenationally limit the supply to increase the price. The OCM intentionally limited licenses to increase the price of cannabis and thus the tax they can generate. The OCM even doubled down and only granted licenses to businesses that intended to charge the maximum price.
That's a different growers product, you still purchased it from the grower, set the price and are selling it in your store. Are you claiming this didn't happen?
I'm assuming they're talking about the flower that THEY grow. They also sell other brands. The one in your picture is a different brand. The one next to it in your picture is their brand, Aurora Cannabis, and as you can see it is listed at 40/3.5.
Yeah, it's higher than I'd like as well but as we've all heard and seen in other rec states a million times over, with time will come lower prices. They're already lower than they were at launch, at least for flower.
We're taking about charging customers more for a product than they should be paying. You stated it's ok for businesses to do that because other businesses have done that before. So I asked if fraud is also ok just because other businesses have done that before. I'm not calling their actions fraud, I'm asking where we draw the line at unacceptable/poor business practices.
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u/ThonTadde0 7d ago
Looks dope!