$35 an ounce for top shelf medical marijuana in Colorado

You might be wrong. It costs about $10/ounce to grow. The dispensary buys it cheap then jacks the price way up. Almost all of them do. It's called proftiteering.

 

Your from colorado!? U gotta card? go check that shit out! lol

 

Top shelf isn't going to get sold for $35/Ounce (schwag might). That would mean a LB would be $560. That just isn't happening. LBs go for $3000'ish. I was just back in CO and picked up a few Os for $260.

 

If it's direct from an HONEST grower anything over $200 is a ripoff.

Trust me, a lot of dispensaries are jacking prices up up to 10 times what they pay. That's what happens when there isn't any real regulation.

 

well think about this, no matter how cheap the dispenseries buy it for they're still going to sell it around what street prices are because thats what people are willing to pay. they get a shit load of profit on prices that people were already paying or were going to illegally.

 

Maybe they meant $35 an ounce to produce? Like once you factor in all of the costs such as labor, supplies, and power

 

there is alwas the chance that what you read is correct.

but im thinking they meant 8ths for sure.

its the past month or 2 EVERY (decent) dispaensary has lowered there prices. most offer a 35$ 8th now, and most of those are pretty dank.

my favorite dispensary, just capped there top shelf at 50 an 8th(how it should be!) and they also give you 4 grams an 8th now! : )

 

With ALL due respect to you OSG, you've mentioned that it costs roughly $10/oz. to grow. Would it be that unreasonable for ANY grower to mark up at LEAST 100% profit on that, knowing what the average "street" (legal or otherwise) price is?

That would mean dispensaries are buying for at least $20/oz., and they would be stupid to not mark up at least another 100% on top of that, again knowing what the average value is.

That being said, I would think a MINIMUM cost for everyone to get a decent profit would be $40/oz.

Mark everything up with a 200% profit margin, and we're talking dispensaries buying for $30/oz. and selling for at least $60/oz.

Guess this just goes to show you how much markup is everywhere along the supply chain, given what we're paying everywhere. It also proves your point that anything over $200 is probably WAY overpriced.

Then again, even the highest prices we've seen is NOTHING compared to the ass-raping Big Pharma is doing to everyone. That really makes me sick to think about their damn profits.

 

That is my point, the markups are insane. Most legitimate businesses operate on margins of 3-20% depending on the nature of the business.

 

I know a couple people in a couple different areas of California. All of them purchase from the grower and distribute to the dispensaries. That could factor into the price inflation.

 

Thank you for being realistic. Jeez

 

no dispensary in Co has any weed that cheap, you gotta find a personal caregiver, then you end up with a 2 oz sack for 100 bucks hahahaha

 

What are you, an accountant? That doesn't look like an "about" dollar amount to me.

Cripes, I'll bet your scales measure down to 1/1000th of a gram too, huh...

 

my scale weighs to the fucking trillionth and i do all my electric bills to the billionth of a cent BITCH hahahahahahaha

 

I've been going to this club in Sun Valley for quite some time (SV Care Givers). There prices have gone from $25 for a gram of their best, then it went to $20 almost a year later. Now they're selling the same cross strains for around 10-15 dollars a gram. And on Holidays (420, Xmas) they sell their top shelf for almost 5 a gram and hand out free J's, even though I'm sure the J's are just shake but who cares.

Prices in the Valley (and L.A.) have been plummeting IMO.

 

Ha Ha! The only grower on GC who charges per trich...