JackTheBongRipper
Well-Known Member
Seems like every week another medical dispensary is re-opening as purely recreational, "screwing" their members. I see the reviews they leave complaining about selling out. I understand, but I think that ship has sailed now. Even medical dispensaries don't see the point anymore.
I walked out of a recreational store in Boulder yesterday after having paid around $25 for one 1/8th, and around $35 for another of good quality bud. Prices keep going down and quality up. So what's the point of medical now? Having to go through hoops and pay a fee to get a card that gets you the same quality weed at roughly the same prices as Joe Schmoe walking into a rec store? That's dumb.
They're even thinking about lowering the taxes on rec. If not, prices are going below medical anyway. We've already seen dispensaries raid their good stash to supply their rec stores.
That's OK. Medical was only a stepping stone on the path for full legalization, it was never meant to be more than that. It was never supposed to be for anything other than opening minds and relaxing laws for eventual recreational laws. It worked. We did it.
Medical is dead. We don't need it anymore. It is at odds with the reality that people should be able to use it for pure recreation. Does it help with legitimate medical needs, definitely, but nobody should be required to come up with a bullshit medical need just to use it for fun. Any more than people are required to prove a medical need for beer. Prohibition is over, and the medical charade should be too. It was an abused system, pot docs got rich, that's about it. It was too bad we had to go through it, but it helped get us here, and now it should just be done.
I walked out of a recreational store in Boulder yesterday after having paid around $25 for one 1/8th, and around $35 for another of good quality bud. Prices keep going down and quality up. So what's the point of medical now? Having to go through hoops and pay a fee to get a card that gets you the same quality weed at roughly the same prices as Joe Schmoe walking into a rec store? That's dumb.
They're even thinking about lowering the taxes on rec. If not, prices are going below medical anyway. We've already seen dispensaries raid their good stash to supply their rec stores.
That's OK. Medical was only a stepping stone on the path for full legalization, it was never meant to be more than that. It was never supposed to be for anything other than opening minds and relaxing laws for eventual recreational laws. It worked. We did it.
Medical is dead. We don't need it anymore. It is at odds with the reality that people should be able to use it for pure recreation. Does it help with legitimate medical needs, definitely, but nobody should be required to come up with a bullshit medical need just to use it for fun. Any more than people are required to prove a medical need for beer. Prohibition is over, and the medical charade should be too. It was an abused system, pot docs got rich, that's about it. It was too bad we had to go through it, but it helped get us here, and now it should just be done.
