I Feel That Dispensary's Are A Rip Off

I want to start by saying that dispensary's are a huge if not the biggest rip off we have ever seen and here is why.
nothing has change in fact things have gone worse now that we have the biggest MIDDLE man ever. see before lets just say the marijuana got shipped from all over the place mexico, Hawaii, Colombia. you get it. also the quality of the product was not the best since it came in bricks and god knows what that brick went through just to make it to the united states and of course be sold for profits.
so the prices in the street lets just say it goes for $20.00 dollars a gram but that cover all the cost and of course some profits.
Now when the dispensary don"t have to continue to charge 20.00 dollars a gram like how the street dealers do why? because
states that allowed medical marijuana also allow patients and care givers to grow POTENT QUALITY good genetics marijuana in there own closets so that takes the risk of getting some swag weed that had to cross the border.
as there is no more middle just the grower and the dispensary now when you go buy your gram for 20 dollars was it really worth it now? i mean i see the argument about how hard it was to get marijuana in the united states and thats the reason of those high prices. but now what is the excuse? you guys still charge the same amount of money for a product that doesnt face the same issues of the past and its cost.
I know all of the people that own dispensary weed never wana see marijuana completely legal and i see why it will slash all of there profits
people open your eyes there is just things that are too out of control
whats the difference between a greedy CEO and a greedy dispensary owner?
i dont see none. being LEGAL or illegal
we are just paying too much for a weed that is exactly what it is a WEED
im sure if everybody will get tired of over paying and i hope we can build a better system than our current.

in conclusion i feel that the only way to stop this LEGAL DEALERS. thats is to open our eyes and grow our own supply and stop relaying on government structures to tell us what and how and where to do our medicine

i hope i get some thoughts on this
as this is my point of view you dont have to agree with me just put some thought and research into it

0011StealTH said:

I want to start by saying that dispensary's are a huge if not the biggest rip off we have ever seen and here is why.
nothing has change in fact things have gone worse now that we have the biggest MIDDLE man ever. see before lets just say the marijuana got shipped from all over the place mexico, Hawaii, Colombia. you get it. also the quality of the product was not the best since it came in bricks and god knows what that brick went through just to make it to the united states and of course be sold for profits.
so the prices in the street lets just say it goes for $20.00 dollars a gram but that cover all the cost and of course some profits.
Now when the dispensary don"t have to continue to charge 20.00 dollars a gram like how the street dealers do why? because
states that allowed medical marijuana also allow patients and care givers to grow POTENT QUALITY good genetics marijuana in there own closets so that takes the risk of getting some swag weed that had to cross the border.
as there is no more middle just the grower and the dispensary now when you go buy your gram for 20 dollars was it really worth it now? i mean i see the argument about how hard it was to get marijuana in the united states and thats the reason of those high prices. but now what is the excuse? you guys still charge the same amount of money for a product that doesnt face the same issues of the past and its cost.
I know all of the people that own dispensary weed never wana see marijuana completely legal and i see why it will slash all of there profits
people open your eyes there is just things that are too out of control
whats the difference between a greedy CEO and a greedy dispensary owner?
i dont see none. being LEGAL or illegal
we are just paying too much for a weed that is exactly what it is a WEED
im sure if everybody will get tired of over paying and i hope we can build a better system than our current.

in conclusion i feel that the only way to stop this LEGAL DEALERS. thats is to open our eyes and grow our own supply and stop relaying on government structures to tell us what and how and where to do our medicine

i hope i get some thoughts on this
as this is my point of view you dont have to agree with me just put some thought and research into it

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you are free to smoke mexican weed for $20 a gram if you want.
you are free to pay what the dispensaries charge.
you are free to grow your own and shut your cockholster about people charging what it takes to pay for overhead.
electricity isn't getting any cheaper and neither is good soil.
why don't you find a grower and cut out the middle man?
you are complaing way to loudly about a situation you have the power to
get out of very easily.
go grow your own weed, champ.
or pay what it costs, scout.
or quit smoking altogether, sport.

There is still a middle man in the medical world. It's called the vender. The guy who gets product from growers and delivers it to dispensaries. He wants profit to cover costs of travel. The clinic itself (unlike a street douche dealer) pays for rent, utilities, security, and etc (so your girly ass doesn't get mugged). Sure they want a profit... But they also NEED it to stay in business. Some clinics grow their own, with no need for a vender (hooray cheaper prices). Just like finding a solid, not a ripoff, good dealer... You're gonna go through some shady clinics to find a good one.

I'm sorry you don't know anything about the world you're ranting about.

tinyTURTLE said:

you are free to smoke mexican weed for $20 a gram if you want= i am sure i have in the past and i dont apreciate it knowing that. i could of have some better quality and local so less resourses human and gas including. woudent be used in order for me to get medicated.
you are free to pay what the dispensaries charge. = which im also free to pay or walk out right?
you are free to grow your own and shut your cockholster about people charging what it takes to pay for overhead.
electricity isn't getting any cheaper and neither is good soil.= yes i also acknowledge my right of GROWING MY OWN and Im sure that same Right Is shared by various of us share living in those qualified states. i am some one to say some thing about what is charged over head for the single fact that i am a patient period that means i buy and have to deal with this yes i know my rights by law it is my responsibility TO DO SO I KNOW I KNOW. and yes about PG&E is fucking all us especially with there stupid DUMB METERS pieces of shits don't do shit but add more usage but i will leave that for another day. come on now don't give me that soil is getting expensive im sure you can buy a week worth of soil for cheap especially if you buy in bulks. you get it. look yes if i could find a direct buy from a grow source i would but people are barely starting to grow and waking up so finding one is hard at the moment again i am not complaining about this i am speaking the way i see things and im sure people feel this way im just the first or the few people that admits it. and for your last stamen t thanx but go take a peak at my posts.
why don't you find a grower and cut out the middle man?
you are complaing way to loudly about a situation you have the power to
get out of very easily.
go grow your own weed, champ.
or pay what it costs, scout.
or quit smoking altogether, sport.

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you are free to smoke mexican weed for $20 a gram if you want= i am sure i have in the past and i dont apreciate it knowing that. i could of have some better quality and local so less resourses human and gas including. woudent be used in order for me to get medicated.
you are free to pay what the dispensaries charge. = which im also free to pay or walk out right?
you are free to grow your own and shut your cockholster about people charging what it takes to pay for overhead.
electricity isn't getting any cheaper and neither is good soil.= yes i also acknowledge my right of GROWING MY OWN and Im sure that same Right Is shared by various of us share living in those qualified states. i am some one to say some thing about what is charged over head for the single fact that i am a patient period that means i buy and have to deal with this yes i know my rights by law it is my responsibility TO DO SO I KNOW I KNOW. and yes about PG&E is fucking all us especially with there stupid DUMB METERS pieces of shits don't do shit but add more usage but i will leave that for another day. come on now don't give me that soil is getting expensive im sure you can buy a week worth of soil for cheap especially if you buy in bulks. you get it. look yes if i could find a direct buy from a grow source i would but people are barely starting to grow and waking up so finding one is hard at the moment again i am not complaining about this i am speaking the way i see things and im sure people feel this way im just the first or the few people that admits it. and for your last stamen t thanx but go take a peak at my posts.
why don't you find a grower and cut out the middle man?
you are complaing way to loudly about a situation you have the power to
get out of very easily.
go grow your own weed, champ.
or pay what it costs, scout.
or quit smoking altogether, sport

Benassi said:

There is still a middle man in the medical world. It's called the vender. The guy who gets product from growers and delivers it to dispensaries. He wants profit to cover costs of travel. The clinic itself (unlike a street douche dealer) pays for rent, utilities, security, and etc (so your girly ass doesn't get mugged). Sure they want a profit... But they also NEED it to stay in business. Some clinics grow their own, with no need for a vender (hooray cheaper prices). Just like finding a solid, not a ripoff, good dealer... You're gonna go through some shady clinics to find a good one.

I'm sorry you don't know anything about the world you're ranting about.

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VENDER is a preattie name for the growers / sluggers come on now i understand everybody needs profit but when every middle man that gets a hold of that marijuana always have to make 10 to 20 times the profit i know the most expensive nutes and the best bag of FOXFARMS soil in the hot sun of California is not going to run you more than what a dispensary makes in a day selling $20.00 dollars a gram while producing 10 ounces a week lets make it reasonable although you can and should produce more especially for a dispensary but (justsaying) lets just say at 300 dollars the once thats 3000 dollars now im sure thats enough to pay a security to watch over me or to watch over there own? oh yes i do know about this world the money blood sucking world you and everybody reading at this time are facing.

PEACE.

all dispensaries are bull shit and all about money and thats it. the only ones happy are the workers theri and the people who sell theri product theri and even they get low amounts for their meds.
if your a medical patient then why the fuck buy weed at street prices witch is what all dispensaries are selling it at or higher.

im medical and i have never had to pay for weed.

piece of advice, get a real grower who does not charge and is not in it for the money but in it for the lover of growing and helping people in need. my growers even give about ozs for free fo grade a to med patients who arent his cuz they got a shit grower who charges

people that bitch about the prices they pay at dispensaries really make me ill.. instead of being grateful that you can simply walk into idk how many different stores and pick out some of the best quality strains at not bad prices..
how about showing some gratitude that you're fortunate enough to live in a state where it's quasi legal, and you have many many many semi legal options of buying some bud instead of the rest of the people who live in the other 35 states where we have to worry about getting shot or mugged or ripped off, and forget about choice, you get what your dealer has, and that's about it.. no walking into stores that have probably 20 different grade a nugs to choice from, none of that..
so why don't you shut up and show some gratitude...

0011StealTH said:

VENDER is a preattie name for the growers / sluggers come on now i understand everybody needs profit but when every middle man that gets a hold of that marijuana always have to make 10 to 20 times the profit

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So what you're saying is the pounds everyone brings from NorCal at $1,500-2,500 gets raised to 15,000 to $25,000 because of venders? Yeah, no.

0011StealTH said:

i know the most expensive nutes and the best bag of FOXFARMS soil in the hot sun of California is not going to run you more than what a dispensary makes in a day selling $20.00 dollars a gram while producing 10 ounces a week

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They have a business to run, expenses to pay, and employees to pay as well. What is so hard to understand about that? I guess it'd be fine if they paid no one, and everyone volunteered 9 hours of their day to NOT make money. Yeah that'd work great (sarcasm) for people to survive. Or they could just have one guy with no building slanging weed... Oh wait that defeats the whole purpose of an elderly lady being able to safely get medicine. What you need to do is stop looking at clinics from a dumb stoner's point of view and realize clinics are NOT FOR YOU and your fake ass insomnia and aches and pains. You're just lucky enough to be able to get a card from a wonky system (which is great for smokers not wanting to break any laws).

And last time I checked, every street dealer is $20 a gram in SoCal and $50 an eighth. Three clinics I visit and do business with never sell anything over $65 a quarter ounce for top shelf. $50-$100 an ounce for smokeable mids. Any clinic still at $20-25 a gram and $450 an ounce is blatently ripping people off, yes. BUT, like I said... you have to find a good clinic just like a good dealer. Only difference is a dealer makes 100% of his ripoff prices... Clinics have to price by expenses, THEN whatever profit they can TRY and squeeze in.

0011StealTH said:

lets make it reasonable although you can and should produce more especially for a dispensary but (justsaying) lets just say at 300 dollars the once thats 3000 dollars now im sure thats enough to pay a security to watch over me or to watch over there own? PEACE.

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What in God's name are you even trying to say right here...

0011StealTH said:

oh yes i do know about this world the money blood sucking world you and everybody reading at this time are facing.

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No, you obviously don't. You know as much as any other person with a recomendation. You've never been on the business side of things, just the customer side. The same side everyone who makes invalid complaints comes from. Do you have any idea the hurdles and hoops these owners jump through every day to stay open and not get raided and raped by the DEA?

If a clinic is a ripoff? Find a new one. Same thing you would do if you had a ripoff dealer.

Want ridiculously cheap prices like the 70's? Build a time machine. Because our inflation is going nowhere but up. If you can't afford it, stop doing it.

We just had a dispensary open here in my town, which aren't even legal in OR yet, but for some reason they are letting them stay open. they sell their shit for $10 a gram. they have a decent strain list but when I saw the nugs they looked like shit. they advertise it as organic indoor but it looks like neglected outdoor guerrilla bud, all the nugs had the shittiest trim jobs. they also only sell it by the gram but none of it is prepackaged. each strain is separate on the shelf in a big 2 gal clear glass jar! right next to a window with the sunlight hitting them too! you tell them what you want and they just put it out of the jar, weigh it up and put it in a ziplock bag. the place is a total joke.

they also advertise as organic but have no way of proving it. i asked them if i could meet the grower and they told me no, so how the fuck am i suppose to believe them?

Know and Love Your Farmer!

I don't mind what dispensaries charge, I think it's fucked up how they treat growers up here though. they'll take our pounds for 1500, then flip them for 20 dollars a gram which comes out to almost 9000 a pound.

if your'e going to rip off people atleast treat the people who grow your weed with respect. fuck I can barely even break even this yeaR!

poplars said:

I don't mind what dispensaries charge, I think it's fucked up how they treat growers up here though. they'll take our pounds for 1500, then flip them for 20 dollars a gram which comes out to almost 9000 a pound.

if your'e going to rip off people atleast treat the people who grow your weed with respect. fuck I can barely even break even this yeaR!

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I mean I realize there is such a thing as overhead.... but I think pounds of chronic should be at MINIMUM 2000. 1500 is straight ripping off the people who grow this shit, motherfuckers should have more respect, this shit is hard work and it is NOT cheap.

Robert Paulson said:

We just had a dispensary open here in my town, which aren't even legal in OR yet, but for some reason they are letting them stay open. they sell their shit for $10 a gram. they have a decent strain list but when I saw the nugs they looked like shit. they advertise it as organic indoor but it looks like neglected outdoor guerrilla bud, all the nugs had the shittiest trim jobs. they also only sell it by the gram but none of it is prepackaged. each strain is separate on the shelf in a big 2 gal clear glass jar! right next to a window with the sunlight hitting them too! you tell them what you want and they just put it out of the jar, weigh it up and put it in a ziplock bag. the place is a total joke.

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ha they call them clubs here in oregon and just for your info they WILL get shit down as it is illegal, right now i can garuntee they are investigating them and making buys from them and sooner or later they will be shut down, they usally stay open for 6 months-1 year. they make us med patients look like shit when they open clubs and sell.

fuck a dispensary grow your own or get a good grower

mcpurple said:

ha they call them clubs here in oregon and just for your info they WILL get shit down as it is illegal, right now i can garuntee they are investigating them and making buys from them and sooner or later they will be shut down, they usally stay open for 6 months-1 year. they make us med patients look like shit when they open clubs and sell.

fuck a dispensary grow your own or get a good grower

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right now, medical cannabis is illegal, nationwide. the whole 'it is illegal' argument is for shit.

the clubs have demand, otherwise they would not be open. are you saying it is bad that people are willing and able to create an industry based on supply and demand?

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YES. I AGREE WITH THIS

0011 they are only a "Ripoff" if you have "Access" to Better Quality Bud for cheaper whether it be you grow it or a friend does. Some ordinary people who like to smoke, may not have many choices and go to the dispensary for some at least Decent bud or some cool edibles & such. I only goto the dispensaries that I know have the best quality here in southern cali, then I know of some that sell decent bud for 10 a gram. But still I only go when purchasing some concentrates or a new bong, maybe to try some diff weed than mine. But as it goes, Clinics are not a "ripoff" and well needed by Many people, maybe not you. so until pot is legalized 100% and its 5/ per gram. it is a Ripoff for no one who likes to smoke, if you do complain you need to log onto RIU and learn the basics or find a Friend.

some are rpis some aint today i got an eight for 20 from the canni

RawBudzski said:

0011 they are only a "Ripoff" if you have "Access" to Better Quality Bud for cheaper whether it be you grow it or a friend does. Some ordinary people who like to smoke, may not have many choices and go to the dispensary for some at least Decent bud or some cool edibles & such. I only goto the dispensaries that I know have the best quality here in southern cali, then I know of some that sell decent bud for 10 a gram. But still I only go when purchasing some concentrates or a new bong, maybe to try some diff weed than mine. But as it goes, Clinics are not a "ripoff" and well needed by Many people, maybe not you. so until pot is legalized 100% and its 5/ per gram. it is a Ripoff for no one who likes to smoke, if you do complain you need to log onto RIU and learn the basics or find a Friend.

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i'm all with you on the $5 g bro.

Man some real crybabies here its called life. Everything you buy at any real store has to make money and they do or they go out of bussiness, I bet you shop at wal mart, target lowes home depot as well as many other large chain stores who buy shit in bulk and mark it up more than the dispensaries do their products. But we don't here you crying about how you get ripped off by them. Shut up and learn to grow your own or fuck off. &uaranteed if big if here IF you are smart enough (big doubt here) to have your own bussiness I bet you would mark up your product or service as well cause let's be for real here if you didn't your whiney ass wouldn't have a bussiness very long moron. Sorry your not smart enough to look at the real world and realize that everyone has to make money if they want to survive. Hell maybe your dispensaries need to charge more to whiney bitches like you then give the little old lady who actually is thankfull she can get the meds she needs a price break for understanding how the real world really works. Get a clue and get off here with your bullshit.

ca$hcropper said:

Man some real crybabies here its called life. Everything you buy at any real store has to make money and they do or they go out of bussiness, I bet you shop at wal mart, target lowes home depot as well as many other large chain stores who buy shit in bulk and mark it up more than the dispensaries do their products. But we don't here you crying about how you get ripped off by them. Shut up and learn to grow your own or fuck off. &uaranteed if big if here IF you are smart enough (big doubt here) to have your own bussiness I bet you would mark up your product or service as well cause let's be for real here if you didn't your whiney ass wouldn't have a bussiness very long moron. Sorry your not smart enough to look at the real world and realize that everyone has to make money if they want to survive. Hell maybe your dispensaries need to charge more to whiney bitches like you then give the little old lady who actually is thankfull she can get the meds she needs a price break for understanding how the real world really works. Get a clue and get off here with your bullshit.

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i think the gripe is generally with the AMOUNT of mark-up. idc if one makes a profit. i hope they DO. Less of a draw on the state imo. BUT, nobody NEEDS a mid to high 6 figure salary to "live". A 50% or 100% markup is cool. But a 400+% markup is just downright greedy and not called for.

If a grower can grow good enough weed to get $15 a g when there is $5 g's out there everywhere too then awesome! But he should have to compete in a free market. That's yet ANOTHER reason to vote for Ron Paul in 2012 AND the Regulate Marijuana Like Wine ballot initiative in Cali. There are $1000 bottles of wine and there are $2 bottles of wine. If one wants the $15 g, cool. And he'll find some he likes too. But there are MANY out there that would die for affordable medicine. Yes, medicine. And meds should NOT be for obscene profit imho.