How will it be sold once legalized?

Discussion in 'Marijuana Legalization' started by TeamSD, Jun 27, 2010.

  1. - Title says it all?

    Will it be sold like cigarettes pre-rolled once industrialized? Assuming with the nature of how it is purchased now im sure the market of buying it as a bud/whole would be standardized. I imagine there will be US-bred coffee shops that will produce/sell bud. That way you can maintain the choice of the different strains just like buying different types of alcohol.

    Will walmart/grocery stores sell it eventually ever if legalized, that way they can maintain and join in the profit?
     
  2. I would imagine, they would sell packs of 20 joints for $5-$10 and cartons for $60-$100.
     

  3. That would be awesome, but I doubt thats how they will do it
     
  4. Your right. They will probably use radioactive fertilizer as well. haha, cigs are already a de-pop tool, I'm sure MJ would become the same.
     
  5. I would imagine at first it will be sold much like it is now, by weight in a baggy of some sort. Since the existing infrastructure is geared towards that now, it seems foolish that it would change over night to "packs of joints." However, once larger corporations make their move into the market, I think then you will see the more familiar commercialized packaging like we see with cigarettes. My best guess is 6 months to a year before you can buy a "Pack of joints" at the corner store. But that's just a guess.
     
  6. People act like cigarettes are the only kind of tobacco available to buy. Does anyone remember pipe tobacco? Cigars? Chewing tobacco? Shisha tobacco? I'm sure that weed will be sold exactly the same way it is now. You will be able to buy it in a clear bag so you can still enjoy the look, smell, and feel of the raw plant material before you grind it yourself and put it in your favorite smoking utensil. This is a ritual that stoners will not give up. If the big companies don't provide this for us we will grow our own or continue to go to the same guy we've always gone to.
     
  7. Every which way there is demand for.
    That's how free markets work.

    Look at all the different types of alcohol, tobacco etc etc.
     
  8. I dought that because people can still get busted at the federal level. My guess is it won't be sold in most places but it will be legal to smoke in the streets, as in the cops won't bust your ass if your smoking weed.

    Like I said however the state will have secret grows I'm sure and be sold in some places but I get the feeling it's gonna be a discrete kinda thing.
     
  9. I believe its going to be sold at approved liquor stores, they may have pre rolled jays and blunts. But Id like to think theyll have it like the dispensaries do, in jars so you can see the product
     
  10. #10 Klao, Jun 27, 2010
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    The option to buy your weed in its purest, stable, "bud" form will never disappear. I own a tobacco pipe, which I smoke only rarely, but believe me when I say there's still millions of pounds of raw, unprocessed tobacco available out there. Cigarettes became popular as part of a cultural shift as much as anything else, but it didn't exactly "kill" all other forms of tobacco, even if it is more convenient. You'll never lose the opportunity to purchase pure, sweet, unprocessed bud .... that idea is merely one of the foolish "legalization boogeyman" that some of the conspiracy-theory stoners are trying to use to instill fear over full legality.

    So, yes, there wiill likely be pre-rolled joints made available, but I doubt very much that:

    A) They will be made the same way cigarettes are. Cigarettes are filled with flakes of tobacco MULCH, mixed in with a lot of nasty chemicals to aid in stability, ease and smoothness of burning, and preservation. They're about as much tobacco as a pringle is a true potato chip. There's not much to be improved upon when it comes to weed, however -- it's like it was made FOR smoking, right in its natural state.

    B) They will ever be anything but an equal player with glass.


    The tradition of "rolling your own" may certainly burn down to a few glowing embers, however. There are a lot of people (like me) who would love to indulge in a joint more often, but can't make their hands cooperate to roll worth shit if their life depended on it.
     
  11. I hate how some of you guys still believe that an uregulated illegal market will provide better bud than a legal regulated one. Doesn't make any sense.
     
  12. id grow my own shit, hands down
     

  13. Well that's the beauty of marketing. And if it might be "legal" in the future they'll just add poisons and crap into it like they did to tobacco, so IMO I would just seek a secondary "black" market anyways. If it were to be legal, then what would stop ordinary people from producing it?
     

  14. Via legalization, what would be the point in being discreet or private about it? Obviously not smoking in an indoor public area for the sake of everyone's lungs. If it's SOOOOO taboo, (fuck) then sell cannabis flowers at casinos, bars, lottery establishments, liquor stores, or anywhere that "ID"s their citizens for proof of age. Man, how babyish are we to hide the truth about cannabis from our children?
     
  15. search button. try it out..

    do we really need another one of these threads.... fuck.
     
  16. I, for one, would never waste my time with anything but buds. Maybe a backup pack of joints laying around somewhere for a drought. That is unless, of course, a particular brand of joints garners a reputation for containing particularly high quality herb. Then, maybe once in a while for the sake of convenience.

    But, there are certain things that are embedded deep into the culture. I wouldn't want to give up the actual inspection of the buds, breaking them up, and packing bowls/rolling doobies myself.

    The next generation of stoners are gonna be sitting around smoking their prissy pre-rolled joints, calling guys who still hand roll "old school." Kinda far out. But if that's the case, I'll be proud to be from the old school.

    Either way, glass will always be my favorite way to smoke, which I'm sure is true of a lot of you blades. Which is among the primary reasons why raw bud form will have to be carried into mass distribution upon legalization.
     
  17. as long as it's legal i really don't care how they decide to sell it. let's worry about getting it legal first :smoking:
     
  18. Probably similar ways as of now. Dime bags, dubs, quarters, halfs, etc.. There will be candies and food to get you high, drinks even. THC may be found in oils and skin creme.

    I'm sure there will be prerolled blunts, joints, pure weed cigars, you name it. If it was legalized, I would grow my own, but I would also buy higher quality bud from a company that has researched and bred very high quality strains. I doubt there would be added chemicals in most weed, but hell if there were, I don't care unless people are suffering from them.
     
  19. personally wouldnt want to buy pre rolled joints, half the fun is in the process.
     

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