Just like i can buy corn for $0.5 at the grocery im happy to buy some from the farmers market for $1 and many people are willing to pay extra to buy local from the guy who uses sustainable practices and produces a better product. I sell 2oz per crop to one person for $100/oz that covers my soil and fert cost. I know i can get double on the open market but I cant take the risk and dont want the hassel. I am in no way a master grower or have eliet cuts of prized phenos but i care for my plants use little or no pesticides and never put out a product that dose not meet my stanadars, while guys like me will never corner the market or be the big movers and shakers i do believe they will always be able to make a living off people who care about the practices and quality of their suplier, just like im happy to spend a few extra $$ going to the market for tastier healthier food grown with love for both the plant and the earth.I share my greenhouse crop with friends and acquaintances. I barter some of it here and there.
Cannabis is like corn these days.... No shortages. Big operations are super efficient at pumping out obscene amounts of product.
If your still making $ in the black market, enjoy it while it lasts. Cannabis will be legal like alcohol & tobacco, in most parts of the world. Its only a matter of time.
Is everyone having trouble getting rid of their weed
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Greengrouch
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Weed ain’t money no more, everybody got it cheap and good. Cook some rocks or something j/k lol
Farmer's Hat
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That is a valid point. I certainly appreciate the importance of quality organic food, which is why I like growing my own veggies.
If you seek out loyal customers who want to support and buy from you, you will find them. I personally choose to invest all that time and effort into learning a new skill/craft that will pay better long term. Growing cannabis is a hobby for me, at this point. Ive already fulfilled my wish to be part of large grow ops. It was fun. The industry doesn't appeal to me anymore. This plant has always been sacred to me, and most commercial big ops don't treat with it reverence. Thats why I cashed out my chips and moved on.
Jamaican_Johnny
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There must have been a big change that happened in your world because in Florida, the best Columbian gold sold for $400 a lb, Columbian was $320 and Jamaican was $280 a lb.
You must have had something very incredible that went for $3200 in 1980. Or you are remembering it wrong.
That brilliant gold sold for $60 retail, Columbian sold for $40 a zip, Mexican varied and Jamaican was a hard sell as it was usually seeded bunk.
Getting $3200 for a lb in 1980 is pure fiction.
Rocket Soul
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This is so derailed and off topic by now, who TF cares about weed prices almost 50 years ago if this is about whats going on now? Thread unsubbed
Jamaican_Johnny
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Where have all the flowers gone?? lol, this is the new norm imo. If you were lucky enough to have higher end, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief type customers you are still doing, OK, treasure them. The basic market for average joe is shot. They have too many choices and prices are going or gonna go down. Zero upside potential pricewise in the basic market. In Canada, weed for sale is almost cheaper than I can grow it. GLUT!!!!!
Unga Bunga
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Sorry JJ , but that's what we got . Your market and our market 1200 miles to the north were quite different .
Short version...
A friend got his hands on some Hindu Kush seeds and grew them in '79 . It blew people away but he only got a few pounds . People were begging him for it and started offering $200 for an ounce . In '80 four of us got together and started growing in bulk . Price was already set for us , no discounts .
Some years down the line others got in on the game and the price went down to $2800 . Eventually $2400 which stuck for a long time until the indoor market got established .
My memory is just fine .
Jamaican_Johnny
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None of those numbers existed in 1980 or even close. People that were there and in the game know that. What you are saying is pretty far fetched and based in fiction.
Unga Bunga
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Why don't you just come right out and call me a liar ?
Jamaican_Johnny
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I was trying to be nice. But I did want to point out to the class the reality of your claim. It's total nonsense.
You mentioned your market was 1200 miles north of mine, Really? How do you know where my market was? You 1200 miles north of Boston?
Maybe you are not remembering the correct decade for the prices you are claiming.
You mentioned your market was 1200 miles north of mine, Really? How do you know where my market was? You 1200 miles north of Boston?
Maybe you are not remembering the correct decade for the prices you are claiming.
Unga Bunga
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It's not worth arguing about for me . Believe what you want .
ttystikk
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Bruh. Not every place is Florida. 30 years ago I sold everything I could grow for $100 a 1/4 OUNCE, that's $6400/lb. Check my math.
HydoDan
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I got $300 per oz. all thru the 80's.. That was the standard in my area..
Inflation in the weed game has been pretty much non exsistant in the weed game the 25 years ive been smoking and my older bros older friends say it was about the same in the 90's, looking back in my history books seeing how bad inflation was in the early/mid 80's + regans ramp up in the "war on drugs" it is easy to imagin the difference of what my boomer parents paid in the 60's and 70's and what i paid in the 00's all happened in a short period of time in the 80s. Lets not forget that in a black market economie everything changes based on where you are and who you know, living in the burbs i could walk to town and find a cornerboy every block selling 8th for $40 then sell it to a country boy bor $70 at school the next day, the counrty boy knew what it was but he was gonna pay that tax one way or another either for a delivery charge for his guy to bring it to him or in burning up a tank of gas driving to town and back home. I respect both @Unga Bunga and @Jamaican_Johnny perspectives of history. Back to the modernday, if your passionate about what you do and find the clientle that values your efforts and quality there is still a living to be made and I believe there always will be, but your not gonna get rich like you could in a blackmarket and its never gonna be that easy again where you could sit on the corner woth a pocket full of dubs and turn a $500profit daily those days are gone in the US
xox
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the way i see it is just follow the market, 15-20 years ago where i live real skunky weed absolutely dominated after that was gone other various types came along nothing overly memorable mostly indoor rock hard flowers probably hydroponic. like others said people want really pretty purple weed like they see on instagram. problem solved grow pretty purple weed. just grow whatever the people want at the time easy. if it doesnt move at the current price drop the price. shits cheap af to grow with led lights. the only way you get to keep sailing your boat is by adjusting your sails. fuck corporate dispensaries.
jimihendrix1
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In 1980, in extreme NE-Kentucky, we were getting Columbian Gold for $450lb. Retail. I saw a whole house stacked full with 50lbs bales in Atlanta. Must have been 3000lbs. No exaggeration.
Around 1973, we paid $150-$200oz, for real deal Thai Sticks.
We were also paying $200oz, for Loose Seedless Thai, from my buddy in Jackson, Michigan. Killer fucking green stuff, with zero seeds. Tasted land smelled like incense-tea, spices.
Out Local Skunk, in 1980 was $120oz. And yes, that shit that you could smell a mile away. The real deal stuff. My buddy lost it to the cops/rat, in 1984. He grew it from 1978-84. It came from William Keith "NOODLES" Hayes, of Meigs County Ohio-RIP. Noodles passed in 2020. He collected seeds since the 60s, and was the first person I know of to have Real Skunk. Meigs was known as the Humboldt County of the East in the late 60s-70s. It was in the middle of nowhere, and in one of the poorest regions of Appalachia.
COPA Genetics, knows Noodles Nephew, and has some of Noodles genes.
Noodles was/is Legend in Appalachia. My buddy met him in 1972. My buddies band, was opening for James Gang, in Charleston Wv, in 1972. Noodles was there. Noodles invited my buddy to his farm when he got the chance. We live about 80-90 miles from Meigs, and back then, it was all 2 lane road. He gave my buddy the first Indica we ever heard of, in 1972.
Noodles would have turned 80, on July 27. He was an Old Timer-Original. He also got busted by the feds in the late 90s, and I find it curious, that it seems like the real Skunk, started to become scarce, after he went to prison 7 years.
Around 1973, we paid $150-$200oz, for real deal Thai Sticks.
We were also paying $200oz, for Loose Seedless Thai, from my buddy in Jackson, Michigan. Killer fucking green stuff, with zero seeds. Tasted land smelled like incense-tea, spices.
Out Local Skunk, in 1980 was $120oz. And yes, that shit that you could smell a mile away. The real deal stuff. My buddy lost it to the cops/rat, in 1984. He grew it from 1978-84. It came from William Keith "NOODLES" Hayes, of Meigs County Ohio-RIP. Noodles passed in 2020. He collected seeds since the 60s, and was the first person I know of to have Real Skunk. Meigs was known as the Humboldt County of the East in the late 60s-70s. It was in the middle of nowhere, and in one of the poorest regions of Appalachia.
COPA Genetics, knows Noodles Nephew, and has some of Noodles genes.
Noodles was/is Legend in Appalachia. My buddy met him in 1972. My buddies band, was opening for James Gang, in Charleston Wv, in 1972. Noodles was there. Noodles invited my buddy to his farm when he got the chance. We live about 80-90 miles from Meigs, and back then, it was all 2 lane road. He gave my buddy the first Indica we ever heard of, in 1972.
Noodles would have turned 80, on July 27. He was an Old Timer-Original. He also got busted by the feds in the late 90s, and I find it curious, that it seems like the real Skunk, started to become scarce, after he went to prison 7 years.
DanKiller
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People who buy weed for 100$ oz and call it fire
Should take a smoking sessions with the true elites one day, you wouldn't last.
85$ oz at the dispensary hahaha, let me guess, it's fire ?
There's just too much new smokers who don't have a clue about this game
Most of them grow cheap genetics or F1 packs of mish mesh "breeders", get a good looking pheno, even before they sampled it they already determine its a keeper (I see it so much here), using ever lower leds in fucked up environments
Wondering why they get so low prices for their low worth weed... A Scooby Doo mystery indeed.
The std in my country is 150-200$ oz, and that's for exceptional weed or aka plastic led buds aka mids at best and sometimes not even that.
Its sad that most elites here are gone, no one is holding the cuts of old, the ones I used to smoke 10-15 years ago.
Outdoor here is 50-100$ oz and is far better than the exceptional indoor led weed, way better.
So you see price does not determine quality in every case, but in the Indoor market, price is all that matters to define what quality you have.
Should take a smoking sessions with the true elites one day, you wouldn't last.
85$ oz at the dispensary hahaha, let me guess, it's fire ?
There's just too much new smokers who don't have a clue about this game
Most of them grow cheap genetics or F1 packs of mish mesh "breeders", get a good looking pheno, even before they sampled it they already determine its a keeper (I see it so much here), using ever lower leds in fucked up environments
Wondering why they get so low prices for their low worth weed... A Scooby Doo mystery indeed.
The std in my country is 150-200$ oz, and that's for exceptional weed or aka plastic led buds aka mids at best and sometimes not even that.
Its sad that most elites here are gone, no one is holding the cuts of old, the ones I used to smoke 10-15 years ago.
Outdoor here is 50-100$ oz and is far better than the exceptional indoor led weed, way better.
So you see price does not determine quality in every case, but in the Indoor market, price is all that matters to define what quality you have.