Quote Originally Posted by Kartel
8 months ago, shops were paying folks I know as high as 1300-1400. In my experience, the price is not down to 800 except in the shops that carry only junk. Any shop that has offered me 8 or 9 hundred has just been laughed at. If I was throwing serious weight, lb's and such, then I'd happily come down. That said I wonder what d9 pays cause their prices are pretty low.....
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What we pay for medicine varies but we like to keep it in the $1000 per QP range because even with our low prices were trying to go down just a touch more. We also found out that with our overhead( which is probably pretty low as compared to some other dispensaries) that if we pay over $4500 that we actually come close to losing money, especially at our members prices. However, we do acquire some meds at a loss from time to time because we, like our patients, love the best and will happily pay for it. We do have a couple of amazing growers that go even lower then $1000 per QP because they see what we are doing and are trying to help us keep the dream alive. Actually, A lot of our best meds come at slightly lower prices from people that are really trying to make a difference.

As one of our in house growers, I give my meds to Delta9 at an even cheaper price because I enjoy thinking that im actually helping people instead of making them broke, which is exactly what Big Pharma was doing in the first place. I also like to make organic butter, BHO, or edibles out of my sucker buds and sweetleaf and then give it to patients for free because the look that I get from people when I do... well that shit will never get old.

As a grower and a purchaser for a dispensary, I've seen both ends of this argument and I think both sides have a right to be saying what they are saying. Being a part of a dispensary, I can tell you that it takes a ridiculous amount of time, effort, money and a love for what you do to be able to run a quality dispensary. The amount of money required to even keep our doors open is grossly underestimated by the internet crowd. With HB-1284 coming into play it is going to cost us close to 40-50 grand just to be in compliance with the commercial warehouse aspect of it (Worst part being that this will definetely affect the quality of our medicine IMO because as we've all seen: warehouse herb pretty much blows balls) I'm not sure about some of the Trustifarian, Californian, or otherwise shadily funded dispensaries out there, but yet another "registration fee" process that is gonna cost as much as this is, just to keep our doors open, is going to be damn hard to come up with for all the small boutique stores. Unfortunately, I feel like that includes all the best shops in town. With our low prices, the amount of meds we give out for terminal patient Experiment programs, and overhead these reported stacks that we are stacking just doesn't exist. If we were making all this loot im pretty sure I'd already be living on mountain at steamboat, spending the rest of my life boozing with snow bunnies and being an all around bum... As a grower with 7+ years experience I sometimes get a little pissed seeing some of these 100,000 watt grow operations that are actually getting paid more for a QP of some bullshit Generic strain compared to my Boutique meds. Then I Realize that I dont have a huge grow operation nor do I need more money for my QP's because I have successfully evaded turning into the douchebag fucks. Im pretty sure most of these huge grows are sitting on the shitty ass meds they are pumping out anyhow because patients are finally starting to recognize what good meds look like. I'm sure once the craze dies down we will see a lot of these money hungry warehouses biting the dust either from lack of sales or pest infestation from lack of care. At that point hopefully we can get these places growing mid grade meds down to mid grade prices. Im slightly skeptical though considering that some people out there are so focused on making money that they wouldn't even give their mom's free meds. It's cool though, I'll take care of their moms for them... I'll tale care of those ladies all night long. :trooper: