Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-21 Thread Bill Prince
i saw this on Vice, and expected to read just one article, but there are actually several articles that outline many of the pratfalls in the blossoming weed industry, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywag8j/oregon-has-way-too-much-legal-weed-this-is-where-its-going bp On 8/21/2019 10:54

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-21 Thread Jay Weekley
Where did you sell cigarettes? Chuck Hogg wrote: Stampless tobacco is either counterfeit or sold through places like Indian reservations. Indian Reservations and the big tobacco giants love each other. The reservations will sell to the small gas stations with stampless product or

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-21 Thread Chuck Hogg
Stampless tobacco is either counterfeit or sold through places like Indian reservations. Indian Reservations and the big tobacco giants love each other. The reservations will sell to the small gas stations with stampless product or counterfeited stamps. Usually the largest part of the price of

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-20 Thread Steve Jones
Its not really complicated, ask any dealer where its legal, its the taxes On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 12:08 PM Dan Parrish wrote: > Ah, the old, "If you just lower taxes you make more money in tax revenue > argument." Armchair policy-making on this isn't so easy. This is a > complicated issue. > >

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-20 Thread Dan Parrish
Ah, the old, "If you just lower taxes you make more money in tax revenue argument." Armchair policy-making on this isn't so easy. This is a complicated issue. --dan On 8/18/2019 7:57 PM, Bill Prince wrote: The black market still exists because they made the taxes so high. The cannabis

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-19 Thread Adam Moffett
Yeah, I was gonna mention back when I was a smoker I found I could mail order Marlboro's and Camels from other countries to avoid all the taxes.  In that case it was apparently cheaper to ship them to another country and mail them back than to pay the taxes. -Adam On 8/19/2019 10:15 AM,

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-19 Thread Mike Delp
I can only speak on Missouri Law, since I am there. My disease (MS) qualifies me for a Certification, once i finish the paperwork. In MO you can get a cultivation card (extra 100 per year) and have six flowering plants, six ready to flower plants and six seedlings so 18 total. This must be in a

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-19 Thread Bill Prince
There is also a huge market for cannabis in "illegal" states. That's apparently a giant issue in Colorado, where there are still black market growers shipping their product to Florida. Legal growers won't do this so they can stay legal. Things probably won't settle out until the laws are more

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-19 Thread Bill Prince
I think you're allowed to grow up to a certain amount. Don't know the details. bp On 8/19/2019 5:08 AM, Jay Weekley wrote: You can grow your own in California can't you?  Is it very hard or expensive to do so? Bill Prince wrote: The black market still exists because they made the taxes

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-19 Thread Jay Weekley
A friend thought legalized drugs would be the end of people getting in trouble with the law. It's true in some ways but I pointed out there would be even more laws to follow and more ways to get in trouble with them. Steve Jones wrote: Yes, the hydropnics is expensive, but the real killer is

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-19 Thread Steve Jones
Yes, the hydropnics is expensive, but the real killer is the electricity. If youre growing high potency niche strains, you need to control the entire environment. I think cali is a 6 plant state. There is still black market booze, huge numbers of black market tobacco products. Taxes and

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-19 Thread Jay Weekley
You can grow your own in California can't you? Is it very hard or expensive to do so? Bill Prince wrote: The black market still exists because they made the taxes so high. The cannabis coming from south of the border does not have the same (or any) quality/potency controls. Yes. They are

Re: [AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-18 Thread Bill Prince
The black market still exists because they made the taxes so high. The cannabis coming from south of the border does not have the same (or any) quality/potency controls. Yes. They are worried about losing revenue. What they don't understand (yet) is

[AFMUG] OT I don't get it

2019-08-18 Thread Chuck McCown
News article about some pot mixed with peppers being intercepted in San Diego. Officials said: Not only did they prevent the drugs from reaching our community, they also prevented millions of dollars of potential profit from making it into the hands of a transnational criminal organization."