If MJ was legal, how do you think it would be sold, and how much would it cost?

you cant really expect anyone to answer that.. who the hell knows

im so sick of hearing oh the government oh the cigarette companies they are gonna ruin our precious weed

you can still roll your own cigarettes if you make the fooolish decision to buy the pre packaged death sticks thats your own problem but no one is forcing you to buy them

the government can't control the supply and demand of weed right now, if they tried to people would just resort to the tactics they use now. they will not find every mom and pop grow or every 20 something year olds grow setup, it just wont happen

get the 1984 scenario with cannabis outta yer heads

 

anything legal is cheaper than when its on the black market, california and colorado are good examples of what happens to the prices

heres a newspaper ad in CO



notice the prices????

 

taxed bud will still be cheaper than illegal marked up bud

and if you don't like that you can just grow your own

 

30$ quarter is expensive for you?

 

which is when you can also grow your own

 

Probably very cheap since it's so easy to grow unless the government taxes it heavily.
Where I live it's legal for coffeeshops to sell weed, and it's legal to grow for personal use. However it's illegal to grow in large quantities and the coffeeshops obtain their weed in illegal ways. This is why prices stay high, the risk for the grower of getting caught. Very good weed is usually about 8 euros a gram. Insanely good weed can go for up to 20 euros a gram. Hashish is about the same price.

I think if it was completely legalized and not taxed heavily it would be extremely cheap. The production costs are VERY low per gram. Probably not even nearly a dollar. So people can still make a profit selling weed at very cheap prices. If corporations try to overprice it, there are probably still people willing to sell at lower prices if they can still make a profit.
Plus, it's impossible to get a monopoly on marijuana because anyone can grow it. Corporations would probably find it very difficult to grab a hold of a large chunk of the market unless their prices are very close to the price of production, which would make it an uneffective way of making money.

Of course the price of production for big corporations would be less because they would produce on a mass scale. They might be able to undermine the smaller growers that way but I doubt it.

Bottom line: the only way to keep weed from being extremely cheap is making it illegal or taxing it heavily. The prices are artificially kept high in this way.

Marijuana and capitalism don't go together when it's legalized.

 

if the government charges a tax of 5 dollars a gram.(example)

So OZ price+$140 for taxes..... It wont be bad if the ounce cost 100.

so 240 for some legal medical dense dank bud plus im paying taxes????? cool.

still cheaper then what most people pay for it illegally.

 

i really dont think the companies that do choose to produce it will force you to pay 5/gram for it. Weed is easier, faster, and cheaper to grow than tobacco. The average rolling tobacco (I use amsterdam shag from a local pipe shop, its basically Drum in bulk) is only 2.75 an ounce. With a legal market for marijuana, I cant see them charging more than 30-40 bucks an ounce. It wouldnt make sense for anyone to buy it if it was that expensive, they could simply grow their own for far far cheaper...

If they were to charge 240/ O for it, they would tank, as weed is far less difficult to grow than tobacco, and it grows faster...

just my .02

 

That's the whole reason it in illegal in many countries in the first place. It's something you can't make a whole lot of money from, because it's so easy to grow very cheaply at home. It keeps people entertained for hours that nobody can then make money off.

Also, constant smoking of marijuana as if it was tobacco would dehabilitate a person and make them at least somewhat less productive at work. If you go to work high, people can make less money off you because you perform less work for the same salary.

What they don't understand is that making it legal is perfectly plausible if you treat it just like alcohol. You need social norms to regulate drug use, not prison sentences and prohibition. They have created a huge world wide market of illegal marijuana that naturally attracts people that want to stay under the radar and still make large amounts of money.

Then you get poor people world wide desperately battling each other over the profits from this product that sells very well and at a high price, and is cheap to produce. Many people have died from that.

This would never have been possible if the prices weren't kept artificially high by fighting the products and their merchants. The more risky it is to make, transport and sell, the more expensive it will be.

That's where probably like 90% of the price of weed comes from. Artificial value. It's so cheap to produce that noone can really make a lot of money from it. Therefore the price of marijuana would have to be extremely low in order to compete with a cheap homemade grow kit.

How much would marijuana cost if it were legal? I think about the same as some strawberries. Those are also very easy to produce and very cheap. If strawberries were 10 dollars per serving, people would just buy a strawberry plant if they wanted strawberries. The only difference is that strawberries are perfecty legal.

 

Yeah thats the way i see it too. Ganja does debilitate you (although some people do go to work high and still are productive) so it should be treated as alcohol is in our society. No coming to work high. That should explain itself.

I really dont think people would use it as they use tobacco though. Although it doesnt seem like it, people do still have a shred of common sense.

I think people would treat it like they do alcohol if it were legal. As a recreational thing to be enjoyed when the time is right (at the end of the day, when socializing with friends, etc.)

 

All i know is i would be growing my own, just like tomato's, not only do they taste better, you get the satisfaction of knowing you cultivated it.

 

The price will go down initially. Whether it's 2,5 or 10 years. It's difficult to say how similar it will be to tobacco and alcohol, but I imagine its gonna be along the same lines. It's called a sin tax:

A state-sponsored tax that is added to products or services that are seen as vices, such as alcohol, tobacco and gambling. These type of taxes are levied by governments to discourage individuals from partaking in such activities without making the use of the products illegal. These taxes also provide a source of government revenue.

Just how a pack of cigs were a dollar or 2 in the early 90s, weed will be cheap. But now cigarrettes can hit the 8 dollar mark in some states. The prices will gradually increase.

 

and then when they do you can just start growing your own

 

Precisely. It's practically legal over here and pretty much socially accepted the same way alcohol is. You can have a beer or some whiskey in your free time, but don't come to work wasted. You want to smoke a joint in the privacy of your own home? Fine. Want to do it outside in the summer on a terrace while having a beer? Fine. Just don't go sparking up a huge bong on a children playground.
It works perfectly, weed doesn't make you not give a fuck the way alcohol does and thus it doesn't make you go around doing stupid shit that lands you in jail.

 

Haha, too late.

Another good question for this thread is this:

If marijuana is legalized, do you think all the amsterdam seed companies would move to the states? Would there be coffeeshops or would you be secluded to smoking more privately?