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04-15-2007, 02:58 PM #21Senior Member
Marijuana America's Number 1 Cash Crop
Originally Posted by Fengzi
your COMPLETELY out to lunch, and your economic forecast is based on total misunderstanding:
1. weed is easy to grow, and remember, if it's legal we're talking fields and fields of it in Nebraska, like corn; big conglomerates would be in the position to mass produce and sell cheap. you would buy a pack of joints just as you would buy a pack of cigs; and i think it could easily be as cheap as tobacco. there would still be a place for specialty growers, but i don't think you get how dramatically the market would change. take a look at alcohol during prohibition and i think you're on the right track.
it would be funny to see all the hydro shops go out of biz, and no longer be able to say "oh, our customers are growing tomatoes indoors"
what you seem to totally miss is that SUPPLY would change by 100-fold, perhaps a 1000-fold. demand would go up as well, since folks that would avoid it because it's illegal no longer would, but the SUPPLY and the ease of sale is the main issue. you're still thinking in terms of it being an illegal substance
the photoshop example is also nuts. you're not paying for the plastic disc, you're paying for the complex and specialized software, which took an immense amount of effort to develop, plus there aren't many direct competitors
and you're still missing the point with the med-cannabis shops; they still have to get their bud through clandestine arrangements; they don't have fields of weed out back, if they did, the prices would be far different
and again with amsterdam: they don't have massive fields of green either; growers still have to keep things on the down-low for the most part. there's a difference between decriminalization and legalization. in DAM you can have 5plants but i don't believe the big seed companies and coffee-shop growers have a license to grow as much as they wish; i could be wrong there, though, not sure
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