lol old smokers will tell you it is just the 'normal' xmas dry.

It really shouldn't happen as much as it used to... but still the prices go up, the bush bud disappears and the only thing you can get before xmas is hydro grown at really high prices.

A couple of decades ago Australia's domestic dope market was grown outdoors and supply was seasonal. You could get heaps from April to October and then things dried up until the next outdoor harvests.

But now, considering that most of the 4 billion dollars* worth of cannabis traded in Australia annually is grown indoors, the seasons shouldn't make a difference to availability.

As a black market good, the major price mechanism should be supply and demand. Ok supply used to drop off the further you got from the date of the outdoor harvest and price increased as demand remained stable. A sudden increase in price was expected as demand for smoke peaks just before xmas and a lot more pressure was put on remaining supplies. ie Even people who only usually smoke other people's want to buy a bit for the xmas nw year period.

The thing is now, weed supply is not limited by the date of the outdoor harvest, yet we see the same price change and supply issues. To me this suggests that something other than a supply /demand mechanism is in effect. I think profiteering (same as we see at the petrol pumps before xmas) is most likely for the price rise. I don't think increased demand before the holidays can account for the price rise alone.

* Estimate by Access Economics for the value of cannabis trade Australia wide for 2003.

Yet another reason to grow your own :hippy:
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