Shasta man you forget to metion all of the expenses that a dispensary has that street drug dealers do not. Do drug dealers pay for rent? Do drug dealers pay for utilities? Do drug dealers pay a for $1,000,000.00 liability insurance policy. Do they pay for workmans comp insurance? Does a drug dealer pay for health insurance for his employees? Do drug dealers pay 8.75% sales tax? Do they pay federal and state taxes? Do they donate money to the ASA? Do they give medicine away to patients that can't afford it but really need it? You make it sound like the dispensaries are just raking in the profits. Well that is just not true. The numbers that you listed above are not correct at leatst at my dispensary, which is a non profit corporation. I do not pre way my medicine. After I dispense a pound to my members I always come up short by at least an ounce. Think about this. Lets say there are 200 transactions per pound. We never weigh our medicine under, it is always weighed over. Lets say .2 of a gram over. If you multiply that by 200 you get 40 grams. Very rarley when we get a pound do we have a pound of sellable medicine. There is shake that we do not sell in our medicine. So let say 10 grams of shake per pound when we get it. So now we are up to 50 grams. When the medicine is handed out over a period of time, more shake is made. We store our medicine in jars, about 2 ozs per jar. At the end of the jar there is at least 1 if not 2 garms of shake. At this point we are over 2 oz's short of a pound.

Lets talk about pricing. Again your numbers are not correct at least at my dispensary. Right noew we have 1/8's ranging from $35 to $50. That is a lot less than the $60 an eight that you mentioned above. You need to re-think your posistion on the dispensaries. I know that there are some bads ones out there, but most of them are good, and not getting rich serving the needs of their patients.
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