OAKLAND

Quinns reopening btw

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/

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

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

Quinns reopening btw

hell yeah

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.

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

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.

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

https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/high-times-shuts-down-pot-shops-california-19385787.php

"California’s cannabis industry struggles to survive, with massive distributors going belly-up, tax revenues sinking and dispensaries closing across the state."

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

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 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

never ever go into a medmen

Not great, Bob?