Stoners have enough money for this expensive stuff? Wow! I've never met a stoner with lots of money. Ha!
Bwaah ha ha. This idea and all other attempts at being the Top of the Top-Shelf in Cannabis are a waste of time, hope and money. At the end of the day, people want $5 pre-rolls and flower for less than $200 an oz for premium strains. We have dozens of vendors trying to reach the $20+ per gram buyer on the shelves in Seattle, the fact is, those buds simply do not sell. Additionally, most of the stores who have tried the Barney's of Bud approach in their retail environments, (Diego Pelicar is a perfect example) are still playing the $5 gram game with 3 times the operating cost for decoration and fashionable budtenders. Unsustainable in every way.
The fact is, people want two things - to get high, and to not look like a dork while doing it. Spending $700 on a roach clip only to have your smokin' and jokin' buddy stick it in his pocket along with your lighter...dork sauce.
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People buy all kinds of stuff that’s too expensive ( wine, cars, clothes, drugs etc.). Let’s let them buy what they want. What ever makes them happy.
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It’s all relative.
You are under the influence at this very moment. This moment should be enshrined - why not?
I love living in Oregon, where we have a 6 year supply of marijuana and you can buy top notch smoke for $5/eighth.
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Drugs are a dead end road. Don’t go there.
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@Ted Bell, so you approve of tobacco, alcohol, and coffee being classified & regulated as the schedule I; II; & V controlled substances these addictive drugs are by definition in the CSA, right?
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@Ted Bell. Indeed. go with alcohol, instead, right?
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@Tom nobody ever entered into a life of prostitution or crime for a coffee fix.
Tobacco and alcohol are poison and I reject them as well. Getting emphysema or cirrhosis isn’t on my bucket list.
I don’t like to ban things because I am a fan of free will.
The best drug out there is nature.
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Just think how stoned you'd have to be to buy a $1,475 grinder--at Barney's or anywhere.
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Yes, unfortunately they’re not as enlightened and price conscious as you.
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you'd have to be wasted to pay $975 for a bong.
oh, nevermind.
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Trump is soft on drugs and has surrendered to the tobacco & alcohol drug lords. The two most deadly & dangerous drugs, tobacco & alcohol, are unconstitutionally exempt from the CSA in violation of the Equal Protection Clause [21 U.S.C. § 802(6)], even though tobacco & alcohol are schedule I & II controlled substances by definition in the CSA.
The evil wickedness, immorality, irrationality, hypocrisy, and unconstitutionality of US drug policy must end!
Either:
1) Tobacco; alcohol; coffee; and cannabis must be classified & regulated as the schedule I; II; V; and V (not I) controlled substances these drugs are by definition in the CSA;
or,
2) All CSAs (federal & state) must be repealed and the DEA abolished.
Which will it be America?
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To me such things are worth $0.00.
However, if I was to value them according to their intended purpose, I might consider a pot grinder worth $20.00.
On the other hand, if my net worth was a 1000 time greater, a $1400 pot grinder might be like "dude, this is so awesome," or something like that.
If a person has accumulated such wealth by sweat, luck, or accident that these trinkets are deemed worth their cost, so be it. Money is as money does. Same goes for envy and stupidity.
My only words of caution here to those with such cash, flaunt it while you have it because one Ms. AOC and her Twitter mob think your money is better managed by them. Mostly likely so it can doled out to less fortunate pot heads. Such is the price of fairness.
Finally, if such excess is to be celebrated and is worthy of attention from the New York Times, then too, I contend, has the time surely arrived to reconsider those prison sentences that by today's standards may be construed as equally excessive.
And if by chance your are looking for Dave, he's not here, man.
Ain't America Grand?
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@K. Johnson calm down KJ - your subjective opinions about "value" are irrelevant, as are your weak swipes at Democrats who want to balance the budget.
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Shallow materialism will not make you happy (although the weed might, temporarily).
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Great...so for about it...how about alcoholllll.....
"The company may also open the head shop in other states, including New York if recreational cannabis becomes legal there."
"The High End" is already present here in the world of NYS Medical Marijuana, pricewise, as we currently pay close to 300% more than most places, medical or retail.
Thanks to Albany and NYS MMJ profiteers!
Any other reason for this besides: Because We Can?
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Even Barney’s is jumping on the pot bandwagon.
Unfortunately, risks, and negative short and long-turn consequences are swept aside in favor of imagined benefits. Yes, it is all for $$$$. Too bad this trend will eat up young people who will try to quit once their bodies give out as adults. They will be chanting, “nobody told us it was harmful.” Similar to older generations of tobacco smokers who started smoking before studies in the 1960’s showed a link between lung cancer and cigarette smoke.
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@P Green Agreed, and the pendulum will swing back, guaranteed. In a decade or two when it's all been taken over by Big Cannabis it will no longer be cool.
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Comments like this are the exact reason why prohibition should be lifted or cannabis should be at least re-scheduled to a Sched 2 instead of Sched 1. We need research. Full stop. We need tons of it. Points of view like this above are based on decades of misinformation and random bits of flotsam based on some random sound byte from DARE.
There is a dearth of robust research. Please stop the madness. We don’t have long term info. Just a study here and a study there. If you are a climate change denier, this should be very familiar territory except this time the lack of science IS real.
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@Matthew Ah, my friend. Look up the NIDA website. This is based on science. Not on anectodal noise by those trying to peddle their elixir.
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Well, yeah. This is America, last time I looked.
If you need dope to make your life better... you need to rethink your life.
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I feel the same way about automatic and semi automatic weapons, but hey, each to their own.
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@Lucas I take it you never drink alcohol. Or use any prescription drugs.
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@Lucas Thanks Mom! Your advice is always so nuanced, and not even remotely reactionary.
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In some ways, pot was more fun in the old days.
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@Richard: in every way.
I miss cheech and chong.
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I'm in my 70's, I can make a pipe out of an apple. Robin WIlliams famously said that cocaine was G-d's way of telling you that you had too much money. Now the Lord has found another way.
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@HalMKUs old-timers can make a pipe out of anything. Before there were even head shops, you had to buy rolling papers at the grocery store, which was always an exercise in paranoia, especially if you were high. I would buy a pouch of cigarette tobacco that had the papers with it. Small corn cob pipes with a screen were very popular also.
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Meanwhile, in the real world...
African Americans and whites use drugs at similar rates, but the imprisonment rate of African Americans for drug charges is almost 6 times that of whites.
This is rich, white privilege, not style.
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@Morgan thanks for helping propagate the American institutional perception that white people are rich and black people are poor. You miss the whole point of the article and whats happening amidst the decriminalization of cannabis.
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@Morgan
True. However, here in California you can now buy and smoke your marijuana legally, no matter your race or ethnicity. Finally.
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@Morgan True, but in states where recreation weed IS legal NO ONE is getting arrested. SO here's a thought....... legalize it
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There are $10,000 and higher priced bongs (water pipes at that price) in Denver.
This is not new. A high end water pipe is artwork and priced accordingly.
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