in amsterdam the price hasn't dropped , same as in Cali.

there's weed in AMSTERDAM that's 25-30 a gram, and it's quasi-legal....sooo.

i hope to live to see the day when packs of joints of reg bud is sold at gas stations and convenience stores for around 20-25 for a pack and the good stuff will be handled by dispensaries across the country. just a pipe dream if i may use a pun, but i think its the future

There is weed that expensive in Amsterdam but by no means do you need to spend that to get killer buds. The average for what I wanted to smoke was about $12US a gram. Anything not considered top shelf could be had for $6-7 a gram.

I doubt a whole lot would change.

I think that if weed were "legalized" in the sense that most meople mean when they say "legalized" that the price would not drop significantly. In fact, I think that government participation would increase the price of bud significantly through all kinds of new taxes.

Because I do not want government involvement, I am personally opposed to legalization. I would rather see decriminalization, where the government takes a "hands off" approach to the whole issue.

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I think when they legalize it, it will become cheap as hell. I think a g will be $1-2 bucks. Think about it, if the govt tries to tax the fuck out of it, they still have to compete with the dealers. People are going to buy from the cheaper guy obviously.

Me, on the other hand, im just gonna grow my own and share with family and friends.

Amsterdam prices seem fair. Free weed for medical users though, or at least concessions made for them to either have it cheaper, or grown for them.
The last thing I want to see is the government gaining a shitload in tax, or for evil pharmaceutical companies to have a monopoly. It's bad enough
they hold back the cure to diabetes without making people with cripping nervous/mental disorders suffer more.

I doubt the government would use the hands off approach, they would tax it to hell. And I would grow it to hell without fear of getting sent to jail. I see it as a win win.

This is exactly what I was thinking. The prices almost have to drop at least a bit otherwise the street dealers all stay in business. A middleman here or there might be cut out but it wouldn't be hard to underbid if the legal prices mimicked the illegal ones.

I definitely see the discounts for patients being a very real and very common occurrence in a situation where it was to become 100% legal.

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The average person will stop buying from a street dealer. It is just more convenient to go to a shop and buy your herb. At least a coffee shop will have to keep some type of rep for having the best bud.