SF is celebrating its first ever Weed Week later this month. Perhaps the market is contracting a bit but it's not going anywhere at least in the Bay
https://sfweedweek.com/
― octobeard, Thursday, 4 April 2024 04:50 (four weeks ago) link
420 in GGP is canceled due to sharp declines in sponsor funding so there's that:
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/organizers-cancel-sf-420-festival-hippie-hill-19369272.php
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 4 April 2024 05:01 (four weeks ago) link
Wait, the legal weed industry is falling apart? How so?
I have an acquaintance who's pretty involved, and he explained how the growers are forever being shafted by the distributors and/or retail outlets, who don't have the money to pay up
The state is taking a huge cut via taxes, which of course they said they would do.. and this keeps the underground economy healthy. I know a dude that has a regular route of customers he delivers to, people who would never set foot in a legal dispensary. Be careful what you wish for
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 April 2024 17:57 (four weeks ago) link
Quinns reopening btw
hell yeah
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:08 (four weeks ago) link
yeah I don't think legal weed is going to go anywhere but it's well on the way to being utterly consumed by corporations.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:08 (four weeks ago) link
yeah, and states like Oklahoma & New Mexico have been overrun with Chinese-owned grow house operations, often using trafficked labor.. that's how you end up with $40/oz. weed when it was $50 for an 1/8 oz. thirty years ago... the little mom & pop growers of yore can't compete with that
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:15 (four weeks ago) link
I'm not a big fan of THC myself, but I think two out of every three people I know regularly use edibles ("gummies") which seem to me the best thing to come out of legalization. Easier to control dosage and is way more appealing to the types of people who don't want to be smoking for whatever reason (health, stigma). A lot of those people use delivery services AFAIK.
― beard papa, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:17 (four weeks ago) link
yeah, I know quite a few folks on the CBD gummies.. you can even buy a version in liquor stores here
A friend has been allowing his teenage kid to use them, to help with ADHD
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:20 (four weeks ago) link
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/high-times-shuts-down-pot-shops-california-19385787.php
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 April 2024 23:50 (four weeks ago) link
"California’s cannabis industry struggles to survive, with massive distributors going belly-up, tax revenues sinking and dispensaries closing across the state."
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 April 2024 23:51 (four weeks ago) link
I have to say, the MedMen dispensary on San Pablo Ave & 40th looked more like a Verizon store than a head-shop... I know they're trying to appear 'legitimate' but it was really uninviting
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 April 2024 00:28 (three weeks ago) link
i dislike most dispensaries for this reason. the ones in LA were particularly annoying. I like Berkeley Patients Group (the first in the country, I think) and try to stick with them.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 5 April 2024 00:38 (three weeks ago) link
i went to one downtown when i was visiting a while back and had left my carts at home and i hated the whole experience, even moreso than the medical experience here in PA which is not great
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 5 April 2024 01:34 (three weeks ago) link
never ever go into a medmen
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 5 April 2024 02:04 (three weeks ago) link
Not great, Bob?
― sarahell, Friday, 5 April 2024 15:40 (three weeks ago) link
MedMen bankrupt: https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/medmen-bankruptcy-19429105.php
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 29 April 2024 21:17 (three days ago) link
Yeah, I just walked by the... branch? on San Pablo and noticed that it's empty
What an uninviting place that was, it looked like a stripmall verizon store
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:25 (three days ago) link
(oh wait I just said the same thing upthread)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:26 (three days ago) link
I think it used to be a verizon/ some form of cell phone store tbh
― sarahell, Monday, 29 April 2024 23:44 (three days ago) link
Perhaps too obscure, but does anyone know why the freeway underpass on MLK around 55th or so is the site of large scale radical poster wheatpasting? Like… it isn’t one poster every pillar for the length of the road until Berkeley… it’s densely concentrated postering in a two block radius.Today was several Palestine posters (2-3 different designs) and one for worker solidarity
― sarahell, Monday, 29 April 2024 23:50 (three days ago) link
not too far from a number of radical spaces, right? Long Haul, anything left at Omni, a ton of radical houses and holdouts
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:37 (two days ago) link
Yeah see I am guessing there is a radical house in that 2 block radius because the block postering doesn’t show up in the immediate vicinity of Omni, and Long Haul is further north …it’s kinda near Purple House but …
― sarahell, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 05:20 (two days ago) link
It’s like it’s more “proof of concept” than a full on campaign
― sarahell, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 05:21 (two days ago) link