• Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    How much weed is that?

    Current price of an oz in the UK, if you know the right person: ~£160 Current exchange rate of $2500: £1,962 1962 / 160 = 12.26 oz per year

    So about an oz a month. I’m happy to pick up the slack for lil’ Timmy.

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      3 months ago

      Sounds like Whitmer is saying that marijuana is an astonishingly tax lucrative industry when handled correctly.

      Then again probably not that surprising seeing how alcohol taxes were a primary stream of revenue for the US government up until prohibition, when the progressive income tax was literally invented by the prohibitionists to forcefully ween the government off alcohol tax revenues so they could ban the stuff.

      When you’re so single issue the fact that you reformed a major segment of how society operates is literally a side note to what you’re tunnel visioned on.

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      3 months ago

      weed is VERY cheap in Michigan. An ounce of flower can go anywhere from 60 to 100USD. If you spend a hundred you got something special.

      Well over a pound and a half per year, like killing and 1/8 every two days. I’m out.

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        3 months ago

        I remain incredibly envious of the decrim in USA of weed. I was lucky enough to visit Seattle in '19, I was like Charlie in the chocolate factory when I visited a dispensary!

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      3 months ago

      An Oz a month…holy crap that’s a not possible for mere mortals.

      Hamid however…

      • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I could easily handle an oz a month. Maybe not with my tolerance levels as they are right now :) but that would change very quickly.

        When I used to get through a lot, I was finishing an 8th every couple of days, and that was with some semblance of restraint.

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          3 months ago

          Well, I speak for myself when I say your numbers don’t add up. I struggle to believe the one guy you knew would scoff at 2500$ a month on weed, the only way the guy you knew smokes that much is if he has crazy disposable income and wastes weed. Either that or he knows someone who grows or grows himself.

          As for your cousin - 500$ a month on weed still takes 5 months to get to these numbers. You show someone 5 months worth of weed in one package and they’ll absolutely be overjoyed.

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            3 months ago

            People don’t seem to be able to read well.

            Let me switch things up. I don’t particularly care what you believe. I’m not aware of current weed prices everywhere, so I may have misestimated. This is still irrelevant to the fact that this ain’t some kind of trial where precision and exact measures are required or something bad happens. This is just folks chewing the fat digitally.

            I already said elsewhere that the dude, one dude smoked weed like cigarettes. Even to the point of chain smoking. I did not, and do not, know if he grew his own, I just know that he had a lot of the stuff at all times. He said several times he would go through a “brick” every other week, with a brick being local terminology for a pound.

            Based on prices around here, 2500 isn’t that much weed. But people do grow their own because they can. Lotta little hollows and hard to find plots of land up in the hills, and the soil is good.

            Gods forbid I be off in my estimates on a meme sub and have to fucking go into this level of bullshit over it.

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              3 months ago

              most of the potheads I know would laugh at 2500 of weed

              Which is apparently 1 guy. I don’t think the problem is with my reading, I think the problem is your writing.

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        3 months ago

        I think someone needs to smoke a joint or two themselves just to relax and let go of all that hostility.