URUGUAY TO SELL $1-A-GRAM WEED!

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/uruguay-marijuana-1-per-gram_n_4137179.html


MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay's drug czar says the country plans to sell legal marijuana for $1 per gram, though he's given higher figures in the past. A law already passed in the lower house of Congress and expected to pass in the Senate later this year would make Uruguay the first country in the world to license and enforce rules for the production, distribution and sale of marijuana for adult consumers.

The El Pais newspaper reported Sunday that drug chief Julio Calzada says marijuana sales should start in the second half of 2014 at a price of $1.

He says the idea isn't to make money, but to wrench the market away from illegal dealers. Calzada said in August that the price would be around $2.5 per gram.

Sales are for locals only.

I smell a trip to Uruguay coming on. An ounce would only cost $28.34.

[Thondalar]

Huh. Who would have thought Uruguay would be the first ones to finally get it right.

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Maybe it is time we start working with our western hemisphere instead of trying to control and criminalize them.

[diethx]

Sales are for locals only, though. What good would a trip do? Wouldn't you still be buying illegally? You'd be better off going to CO or WA. Easier to travel there and travel back home with the drugs, assuming you drive. Cheaper too.

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Thanks for the tip.

[Archigeek]

Sales are for locals only, though. What good would a trip do? Wouldn't you still be buying illegally? You'd be better off going to CO or WA. Easier to travel there and travel back home with the drugs, assuming you drive. Cheaper too.

Way to be a buzz kill.

Also, they have great pizza down there. I'm in for the combo.

[AnticorRifling]

Thanks for the tip.

A tip? It's from your own post...

[4a6c1]

Come on guys this is easy. Buy a passport in local shantytown. ". Yo soy uruguaya. Quiero maryjane."

[Tisket]

I smell a trip to Uruguay coming on. An ounce would only cost $28.34.

How much is it here?

I'm not up on the current drug market.

[Gelston]

How much is it here?

I'm not up on the current drug market.

I looked up Colorado, since it is totally legal there and got $198-$238.

http://www.priceofweed.com/prices/United-States/Colorado.html

[Thondalar]

Maybe it is time we start working with our western hemisphere instead of trying to control and criminalize them.

Amen. You do realize the tenants of the Libertarian platform, right? I think if you got past the negative propaganda and looked in to it a little more, you'd find, like about 70% of America, you're actually Libertarian.

[tyrant-201]

Amen. You do realize the tenants of the Libertarian platform, right? I think if you got past the negative propaganda and looked in to it a little more, you'd find, like about 70% of America, you're actually Libertarian.

Say what you want about the tenets of the Libertarian platform, Dude, at least its an ethos.

[Thondalar]

How much is it here?

I'm not up on the current drug market.

No idea now, but...I can tell you from a LOT of personal experience, in central Florida anyway...an ounce of "mids" ran about $120...that was 14 years ago tho. Honestly no idea what it is now-days. Dro was a lot more...used to sell some blueberry I got out of Orlando for $20 a gram...which would be $560/ounce, roughly...

[tyrant-201]

No idea now, but...I can tell you from a LOT of personal experience, in central Florida anyway...an ounce of "mids" ran about $120...that was 14 years ago tho. Honestly no idea what it is now-days. Dro was a lot more...used to sell some blueberry I got out of Orlando for $20 a gram...which would be $560/ounce, roughly...

California is around 40-50 dollars for an eighth of an ounce. Usually around 10 dollars a gram, IIRC. It's been a few years since I smoked.

[4a6c1]

NOPE. The Libertarians want to control my uterus. And I want the option to carve out the inside of my uterus like a halloween pumpkin whenever I want. So me and Libertarians are a no go.

[Thondalar]

Say what you want about the tenets of the Libertarian platform, Dude, at least its an ethos.

I'm drunk, you got my point.

[Thondalar]

NOPE. The Libertarians want to control my uterus. And I want the option to carve out the inside of my uterus like a halloween pumpkin whenever I want. So me and Libertarians are a no go.

Uh...Libertarians don't want to control anything. Do whatever the fuck you want with your uterus. This is exactly the negative propaganda I'm talking about.

[tyrant-201]

I hear Libertarians want to tax the shit out of everyone.

[4a6c1]

Uh...Libertarians don't want to control anything. Do whatever the fuck you want with your uterus. This is exactly the negative propaganda I'm talking about.

Ron Paul is strongly pro-life. I don't care what he calls himself as of 2012, he's a libertarian. Find me another famous libertarian face that says otherwise. Also you are using the word propaganda incorrectly and it's bothering me.

[Thondalar]

California is around 40-50 dollars for an eighth of an ounce. Usually around 10 dollars a gram, IIRC. It's been a few years since I smoked.

an eighth is what, a "quarter"? I sold weed and beans for a living for about 3 years, but usually used terms like "nick/Nickel", "dime", "Quarter", "half"...eighth is eighth of an ounce, which would mathematically be 3.5 grams, roughly...normal mids I'd sell a 6 gram "quarter", which was 25 bucks...usually that was Mexican brick, though...could get a pound of that for $400 bucks back then. I'd keep the decent red-haired crystalized shit for my regulars.

[Thondalar]

Ron Paul is strongly pro-life. I don't care what he calls himself as of 2012, he's a libertarian. Find me another famous libertarian face that says otherwise. Also you are using the word propaganda incorrectly and it's bothering me.

Ron Paul is a Republican pretty much only because of his pro-life stance. Come at me with someone who actually labels themselves a Libertarian who is pro life.

[4a6c1]

Oh shutup. He was the fucking figurehead of the party for ever and a day until Obama and you know it.

[Latrinsorm]

Amen. You do realize the tenants of the Libertarian platform, right? I think if you got past the negative propaganda and looked in to it a little more, you'd find, like about 70% of America, you're actually Libertarian.You can't spell low-information voter without "livertarion", which is pretty close to libertarian! :)
Uh...Libertarians don't want to control anything. Do whatever the fuck you want with your uterus. This is exactly the negative propaganda I'm talking about.How can 70% of America be libertarians while >50% are pro-life?

[Thondalar]

You can't spell low-information voter without "livertarion", which is pretty close to libertarian! :)

Sure.


How can 70% of America be libertarians while >50% are pro-life?

Quite easily. Personally, I'm pro-life. I believe every embryo, at the point of inception, becomes a life...only because, you can't say it wouldn't be, until you abort it on purpose. Pretty cut and dry. At the same time, the Libertarian principle dictates that's not something the Federal Government has any business sticking their nose in.

[tyrant-201]

an eighth is what, a "quarter"? I sold weed and beans for a living for about 3 years, but usually used terms like "nick/Nickel", "dime", "Quarter", "half"...eighth is eighth of an ounce, which would mathematically be 3.5 grams, roughly...normal mids I'd sell a 6 gram "quarter", which was 25 bucks...usually that was Mexican brick, though...could get a pound of that for $400 bucks back then. I'd keep the decent red-haired crystalized shit for my regulars.

An eighth is 1/8th of an ounce. 3.5 grams would be 1/8th of roughly 28 grams. A quarter would be 7 grams.

[Latrinsorm]

Quite easily. Personally, I'm pro-life. I believe every embryo, at the point of inception, becomes a life...only because, you can't say it wouldn't be, until you abort it on purpose. Pretty cut and dry. At the same time, the Libertarian principle dictates that's not something the Federal Government has any business sticking their nose in.That is a very good response. Now, can you think of one to explain how 72% (http://www.gallup.com/poll/154838/pro-choice-americans-record-low.aspx) of Americans believe abortion should be illegal under some (or all) circumstances?

[Thondalar]

An eighth is 1/8th of an ounce. 3.5 grams would be 1/8th of roughly 28 grams. A quarter would be 7 grams.

28 grams is roughly an ounce. I'm not sure what your point is. OH...I get it. a quarter would be a quarter of an ounce...no....a "quarter", to me, was $25 dollars....25...quarter...I tried to make it clear, but I may have failed...I named sacks based on dollar price. Nickel was $5, dime was $10, quarter was $25....actual gram weight depended on the product.

[Thondalar]

That is a very good response. Now, can you think of one to explain how 72% (http://www.gallup.com/poll/154838/pro-choice-americans-record-low.aspx) of Americans believe abortion should be illegal under some (or all) circumstances?

By the same statement I just made. Technically, yes, it should be murder. I guess I'm ultra-libertarian in that I think even that shouldn't be regulated. You have to overcome the fact that most of America is still Christian, and despite their leanings towards less government and more personal freedom, the freedom to murder a baby, even if it's your own, is still a bit hard to swallow when presented in a general poll.

[tyrant-201]

28 grams is roughly an ounce. I'm not sure what your point is. OH...I get it. a quarter would be a quarter of an ounce...no....a "quarter", to me, was $25 dollars....25...quarter...I tried to make it clear, but I may have failed...I named sacks based on dollar price. Nickel was $5, dime was $10, quarter was $25....actual gram weight depended on the product.

Gotcha. Strange to hear about how other places do it. I never really smoked anything that didn't come from clinics, so the pricing/weighing standard was pretty precise.

[Thondalar]

Gotcha. Strange to hear about how other places do it. I never really smoked anything that didn't come from clinics, so the pricing/weighing standard was pretty precise.

Heh, yeah...only had government weed once, and it had me stuck like concrete for a few hours...but no...quarter was 25 bucks period dot...now, if it was that Mexican dirt, it was a 7 or 8 gram sack...if it was that blueberry dro, it was 2 grams if I liked you.

[subzero]

No idea now, but...I can tell you from a LOT of personal experience, in central Florida anyway...an ounce of "mids" ran about $120...that was 14 years ago tho. Honestly no idea what it is now-days. Dro was a lot more...used to sell some blueberry I got out of Orlando for $20 a gram...which would be $560/ounce, roughly...

Except ounces don't normally go at the same rate that you'd piece out grams. 300-400 would be a good range.

[diethx]

an eighth is what, a "quarter"?

lol wuuuuuut. Math, how does it work?

[subzero]

an eighth is what, a "quarter"? I sold weed and beans for a living for about 3 years, but usually used terms like "nick/Nickel", "dime", "Quarter", "half"...eighth is eighth of an ounce, which would mathematically be 3.5 grams, roughly...normal mids I'd sell a 6 gram "quarter", which was 25 bucks...usually that was Mexican brick, though...could get a pound of that for $400 bucks back then. I'd keep the decent red-haired crystalized shit for my regulars.

Did you really ask if an eighth was a quarter? You seem to know the weights... and it's pretty jacked up shortin niggas on their quarter bags of schwag.

[Thondalar]

lol wuuuuuut. Math, how does it work?

Notice the quotes around quarter. This was to indicate it was a measure of cash value, not weight. I'm assuming you just picked that out of the post and didn't read it in it's entirety, only because I would assume your reading comprehension skill would be a bit more advanced than that.

[Thondalar]

Did you really ask if an eighth was a quarter? You seem to know the weights... and it's pretty jacked up shortin niggas on their quarter bags of schwag.


lol wuuuuuut. Math, how does it work?

et tu, SubZ?

[diethx]

I've never heard a quarter to reference $25. I used to smoke, a lot. I also used to sell many years ago. A quarter was a quarter of an ounce. Always.

[Thondalar]

I've never heard a quarter to reference $25. I used to smoke, a lot. I also used to sell many years ago. A quarter was a quarter of an ounce. Always.

so a dime was a 10th of an ounce?

[4a6c1]

You're all criminals. Oh my god! I never read any of this.

[Thondalar]

I've never heard a quarter to reference $25. I used to smoke, a lot. I also used to sell many years ago. A quarter was a quarter of an ounce. Always.

I would think my other example would be a teller...I get it, maybe it was done differently for different people, regions, whatever, but...a quarter of an ounce of blueberry hydro was not the same price as a quarter of an ounce of dirt brick. I guess I developed this pricing system because I sold both kinds, and it would get confusing otherwise. Regardless, I don't see how you could argue with the logic.

[diethx]

so a dime was a 10th of an ounce?

That's a pretty stupid thing to say. Just because an eighth, quarter, etc, denotes weight, doesn't mean a dime bag does.

I just find it strange that you would call a quarter whatever you charged $25 for, but pretty much everyone else I've ever spoken to, either back home in NY or across the country thanks to the internets, knows a quarter to be weight-based. But hey, I mean... you WERE charging people the same per gram when they buy a gram or an ounce, so who knows what the fuck else weird shit you'd do.

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ROFL@POTHEADS!!!

You cheeky monkeys. Who knew.

[Thondalar]

That's a pretty stupid thing to say. Just because an eighth, quarter, etc, denotes weight, doesn't mean a dime bag does.

I just find it strange that you would call a quarter whatever you charged $25 for, but pretty much everyone else I've ever spoken to, either back home in NY or across the country thanks to the internets, knows a quarter to be weight-based. But hey, I mean... you WERE charging people the same per gram when they buy a gram or an ounce, so who knows what the fuck else weird shit you'd do.

I pretty much expressly said what I did. Very detailed-like. I never said I charged full gram-price for an ounce, I said if you were to price it out from the per-gram price to an ounce, in reference to the OP. Naturally you'd get a discount for more weight. I do laugh my ass off at the fact you're saying a quarter is always a quarter but everyone knows a dime is $10...I'm glad you know a lot of people that smoke and/or sell weed. However all of them do it is great. My personal experience was $5, $10, $25, being nick, dime, quarter....gram weight changed for all three depending on the product. You're an intelligent person, I thought....I'm sure you can understand the value of this pricing system from a market standpoint. Perhaps I was the most logical drug dealer you've ever heard of...I'm ok with that.

[diethx]

I said if you were to price it out from the per-gram price to an ounce, in reference to the OP. Naturally you'd get a discount for more weight.

Actually, this is what transpired-


How much is it here?

I'm not up on the current drug market.

Here is where Tisket asks how much you could buy an ounce for here, in the states.


No idea now, but...I can tell you from a LOT of personal experience, in central Florida anyway...an ounce of "mids" ran about $120...that was 14 years ago tho. Honestly no idea what it is now-days. Dro was a lot more...used to sell some blueberry I got out of Orlando for $20 a gram...which would be $560/ounce, roughly...

You're basically telling Tisket that you'd (generic you) expect to pay $560 an ounce for hydro or kind bud or whatever you're referencing as higher quality shit.

Which is laughable.

[Thondalar]

Actually, this is what transpired-



Here is where Tisket asks how much you could buy an ounce for here, in the states.



You're basically telling Tisket that you'd (generic you) expect to pay $560 an ounce for hydro or kind bud or whatever you're referencing as higher quality shit.

Which is laughable.

Aren't you a lawyer or something? I'd think your reading comprehension skills would be a bit better. Especially since you're on this forum, which means you either do or have played Gemstone at one point...although that assumption has proven wrong on many occasions...regardless. I said an ounce of regs was $120. High-grade was $20 a gram, which, mathematically, would equal $560 an ounce, straight math. I'm sorry I didn't mention you get a discount for buying in bulk, I figured that would be assumed. My bad.

[diethx]

Aren't you a lawyer or something? I'd think your reading comprehension skills would be a bit better. Especially since you're on this forum, which means you either do or have played Gemstone at one point...although that assumption has proven wrong on many occasions...regardless. I said an ounce of regs was $120. High-grade was $20 a gram, which, mathematically, would equal $560 an ounce, straight math. I'm sorry I didn't mention you get a discount for buying in bulk, I figured that would be assumed. My bad.

You keep talking about my reading comprehension, however that's not really the problem here. I'm reading your statements at face value. That's all. If you wanted me to derive more from your posts then you should have you know, actually said what you meant to say. Especially if you wanted Tisket, who admittedly said she had absolutely no idea about the pricing of drugs or the drug markets, to get any sort of value from your post.

[Thondalar]

You keep talking about my reading comprehension, however that's not really the problem here. I'm reading your statements at face value. That's all. If you wanted me to derive more from your posts then you should have you know, actually said what you meant to say. Especially if you wanted Tisket, who admittedly said she had absolutely no idea about the pricing of drugs or the drug markets, to get any sort of value from your post.

I don't know how I could be more clear. nickel, dime, quarter.....5, 10, 25. Weight will vary depending on quality of product. $25 dollars of mids will not be the same weight as $25 dollars of dro. Still a quarter. If you can't understand that concept, I have nothing for you.

[diethx]

I don't know how I could be more clear. nickel, dime, quarter.....5, 10, 25. Weight will vary depending on quality of product. $25 dollars of mids will not be the same weight as $25 dollars of dro. Still a quarter. If you can't understand that concept, I have nothing for you.

Please explain how that has anything to do with you telling Tisket she could expect to pay $560 for an ounce of hydro, which is what I've been talking about for the past 5 posts.

[Thondalar]

Please explain how that has anything to do with you telling Tisket she could expect to pay $560 for an ounce of hydro, which is what I've been talking about for the past 5 posts.

Oh, I couldn't. I never said that.

[Ceyrin]

This thread...

[Latrinsorm]

By the same statement I just made. Technically, yes, it should be murder. I guess I'm ultra-libertarian in that I think even that shouldn't be regulated. You have to overcome the fact that most of America is still Christian, and despite their leanings towards less government and more personal freedom, the freedom to murder a baby, even if it's your own, is still a bit hard to swallow when presented in a general poll.Then I don't see how you disagree when Rojo says that libertarians want to prohibit her uterine escapades. Maybe if you hadn't smoked pot you'd be able to make a coherent argument!!!
You're all criminals. Oh my god! I never read any of this.I on the other hand have detailed files.

[4a6c1]

Oh Latrin. I believe you. :[

[4a6c1]

What I want out of this thread is an answer to this question: Do the people here that used to smoke pot and now have stopped acknowledge that smoking pot is addictive? This question comes from an innocent non-judgey, behavioral science place and also I'm an ex smoker and I think about cigarettes sometimes.

[Keller]

I have never bought pot, but if I had, I'd have bought it in the states of Indiana, Michigan, Florida, Ohio, West Virginia, North Carolina, California, Colorado, Utah, Montana, New York, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

I have never bought pot, but if I had, I'd have bought quarters in each of those states and the District of Columbia.

I have never bought pot, but if I had, I'd have always paid between $80 and $110 dollars per quarter in each of those states and the District of Columbia.

I have never bought pot, but if I had, I'd be laughing at Thondalar and his insistence that a quarter is anything other than a quarter of an ounce.

[4a6c1]

What did Keller lose to Drew?

[dszabo]

A friend of mine knows where you can get pounds of high quality home grown Alaskan pot for ~$2k a pound, which, he tells me, is a pretty killer deal.

[tyrant-201]

What I want out of this thread is an answer to this question: Do the people here that used to smoke pot and now have stopped acknowledge that smoking pot is addictive? This question comes from an innocent non-judgey, behavioral science place and also I'm an ex smoker and I think about cigarettes sometimes.

Depends on your mentality towards it. Can it be mentally addictive? Sure. Do you get withdrawls from it? I never have, and I've heard it's not addictive in the physical sense.

[Methais]

What I want out of this thread is an answer to this question: Do the people here that used to smoke pot and now have stopped acknowledge that smoking pot is addictive? This question comes from an innocent non-judgey, behavioral science place and also I'm an ex smoker and I think about cigarettes sometimes.

I've quit for good chunks of time for one reason or another, and while I found myself wishing I could fire some shit up at times, almost always when I'm sitting down with a game, the answer to your question is no. It can be mentally addictive to some people, but never physically.

It's laughable that this is still illegal. It's the perfect example of the effect that lobbyists and propaganda have on what should be no brainer laws in this country.

Pricing and weights:

Dirt weed: quarter oz. is usually $20-25, ounces for $50-80, sometimes $100 if it's good shwag.

Good shit: $15-25 per gram. $50-60 for an eighth, $80-100 for a quarter, and usually $300-350 an oz.

I get what Thondalar is saying, but most people go strictly by weight.

In closing,
http://i.imgur.com/e05nH2U.jpg

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I pretty much expressly said what I did. Very detailed-like. I never said I charged full gram-price for an ounce, I said if you were to price it out from the per-gram price to an ounce, in reference to the OP. Naturally you'd get a discount for more weight. I do laugh my ass off at the fact you're saying a quarter is always a quarter but everyone knows a dime is $10...I'm glad you know a lot of people that smoke and/or sell weed. However all of them do it is great. My personal experience was $5, $10, $25, being nick, dime, quarter....gram weight changed for all three depending on the product. You're an intelligent person, I thought....I'm sure you can understand the value of this pricing system from a market standpoint. Perhaps I was the most logical drug dealer you've ever heard of...I'm ok with that.

I've never heard of that shit. Quarter = quarter ounce = 7 grams, eighth is half of that. The nick/dime thing is just some broke ass hood/kid shit referring to the five or ten bones they can drop on some dirt. In my experience, that's usually like 1g/2g but you're dealing with some wild west shit there, so who knows. You sound like a solid Mr. Sesame Seed.

[subzero]

What I want out of this thread is an answer to this question: Do the people here that used to smoke pot and now have stopped acknowledge that smoking pot is addictive? This question comes from an innocent non-judgey, behavioral science place and also I'm an ex smoker and I think about cigarettes sometimes.

For what it's worth, I smoke now and can tell you it's not addictive to me. Habit forming, sure. However, I can stop smoking at any time for any period of time and am fine. If it were chemically addictive, I would suffer withdrawal symptoms. Mentally, the toughest is the first day just getting out of the habits. Also want to smoke when I drink, but that doesn't really have anything to do with current status as a smoker.

I've heard that the cannabinoids interact with certain receptors that also receive chemicals when you're happy that provide happy, euphoric feelings. As our good buddy Katt Williams will point out, one of the effects of getting high happens to be that it makes you happy. I suppose in chronic use scenarios your natural production of certain 'happy chemicals' could be reduced as a result of the influx of those from the weed which might result in a mental addiction due to your body not producing the chemicals needed to make you naturally feel good and happy. Can't say I'm exactly sure on all of that, though.

Allegedly.

[AnticorRifling]

What did Keller lose to Drew?

Sports bet.

[Keller]

Sports bet.

And I took the consequences of the bet like a man. Lebron James and the rest of the flopping Heat could learn a thing or two from me. /stillmad

[AnticorRifling]

And I took the consequences of the bet like a man. Lebron James and the rest of the flopping Heat could learn a thing or two from me. /stillmad

Yes, yes you did. And yes the heat deserve an Emmy for their performance.

[diethx]

I smoked for a very long time and it was never physically addictive. I miss it sometimes, but I wouldn't even have said it was mentally addictive. I'm going to be visiting a friend next month where it's legal, and I will probably smoke some while I'm there, just because I can. But yeah, no. Not addictive.

[Warriorbird]

What I want out of this thread is an answer to this question: Do the people here that used to smoke pot and now have stopped acknowledge that smoking pot is addictive? This question comes from an innocent non-judgey, behavioral science place and also I'm an ex smoker and I think about cigarettes sometimes.

Nothing like tobacco.

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http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/WeedPrices_900w_1.jpg

[Tgo01]

Stuff costs more if it's illegal? Get out of here.

[Latrinsorm]

That's why making drugs illegal is a deterrent but making guns illegal would ABSOLUTELY NOT be.

[Keller]

That's why making drugs illegal is a deterrent but making guns illegal would ABSOLUTELY NOT be.

People would stop getting high if we all had weed.

[Tenlaar]

It's really amusing that Thondalar felt the need to chime in on this subject, and talk about how he used to sell weed, while not knowing what a quarter is (accept it man, nobody anywhere ever has used quarter to mean $25 bag) and saying hydro like it is somehow related to quality.

Stick to what you know - stupid posts about the gub'ment and Obamacare.