Medical MJ Prices - Quit Growing MMJ

OrganicMechanic · May 9, 2012

Quit Growing MJ Due to Dropping Prices?

It seems that here in town med prices have dropped to a historical low; what seems to be NOTHING! There is a massive surplus here in town, such that $150 ounces are normal. This is Surreal.

It is convincing many others to scale down their grows like I have. Or, investing tons of cash into their grows and going Big. The problem with "going big" is many of these growers produce mediocre stuff that isn't medical grade - "hacking up a lung" - but looks great and has a Brand name attached to it like Diesel or Haze. These guys are keeping prices at an all time Low and flooding the market with Crap.

Elliesdaddy · May 9, 2012

And the people bringing you good cheap weed would like to give you a big up yourself!

crazyhazey · May 9, 2012

OrganicMechanic said:
Quit Growing MJ you Big Fat Liars!!!

For anyone who - is growing Med MJ and doesn't smoke it themselves - You Suck!

For anyone who - has a large grow ops and uses Med MJ as a guise to sell your stuff legally - You Blow TOO!

It seems that here in town med prices have dropped to a historical low; what seems to be NOTHING! There is a massive surplus and supply here in town, such that $150 ounces are normal for anyone looking for Good/Great meds like - Sour Diesel, Blue Dream, Royal Kush, Silver Haze, etc.

First, I am a med patient that is "self-sufficient". I have Degenerative Disc Disease as well as a few other spinal problems. I used to donate the rest of my harvest to a friend that served in Vietnam who has nerve pain and brain damage. I would donate enough to him to "Break Even" after paying for Nutes, Soil, Electricity, etc, as well as give him free Bubble hash just for fun. After all of the back breaking work.... I can't even break even. To my dismay, I am stuck sitting on my MMJ. I'll just vacuum pack it and store it for later. This past month, I haven't even been able to donate my surplus harvest because their is too much of it in town. It is even convincing many others to quit growing, or scale down, and let the Large Commercial growers win the fight. I am tired of seeing my hard work go down the drain.

It seems that Med MJ has finally been transformed into a regular American agricultural commodity. One where only the large growers can make a profit due to a saturated marketplace holding way too much surplus. If you know anything about the USDA, you'll know what I am talking about. This why the prices in our grocery stores are so low (trust me, you should be paying much more for your food). Our Government pays Big $$$ to farmers that grow on a HUGE scale and leaves the small growers to break-even or go-broke. Watch a movie called "King Corn" they talk about how small farmers go broke due to the massive subsidization of GIANT farmers.

So, I want to give a big sarcastic "thank you" to all of you idiots that Grow Med MJ illegally.

well, this may be a negative for small time growers but at least you can get good meds for cheap, i dont see how thats bad. i dont sell the weed i grow either way, i put way too much work into my plants to sell it for 150 an oz. eventually, big business will consume most competitors but thats business. once theres a walmart of dispensaries, yes, they will sell good nug for the low, but people will still always go to the local guy who grows organic and takes care of his plants.

Wilksey · May 9, 2012

So, I want to give a big sarcastic "thank you" to all of you idiots that Grow Med MJ illegally.

/shrug

At $150 an OZ, IF I were a med patient afforded the opportunity to purchase at that price, my thanks wouldn't be sarcastic at all.

RawBudzski · May 9, 2012

I doubt many people grow medical mj illegally. They may grow mj, I would not consider it as mmj though.

Darwin Riddle · May 9, 2012

I don't understand what the complaint is...you are upset because you have too much weed? I also don't understand how you can break even on something if you are donating it. Basically you are pissed because you can't sell your weed?...as a mmj patient, are you supposed to be selling or "donating" any of your weed anyway? The whole medical marijuana movement is a joke.....none of you are following the rules...out west it's like a huge cannabis circus.

OrganicMechanic · May 9, 2012

It's not a complaint. As Med growers, we need there to be an incentive to continue operating. We can't just break even. It's a part time job man.

Last Night a friend, with a big grow, offered me some great looking medicine - "Permafrost" for $150oz. It turned out to be one of the harshest buds I've smoked in a while; cough up a lung.

These guys are flooding the market with this stuff and the majority of consumers (patients) don't care about the quality as long as it "does the job" and the "price is low".

This is very frustrating when you actually care more about quality than you do about price.... even though price is important.

OrganicMechanic · May 9, 2012

Anyone in the same boat? chime in. Just wondering who else is effected by the Price Drop in MMJ?

Afterall, this is a website about growing MJ. Lets look at this from the supply-side please! Thanks.

Didn't want to come off negative. Sorry for the confusion.

OrganicMechanic · May 9, 2012

Patients need cheap medicine!!! Yes, I understand that, but How cheap is "cheap enough"??

We need a reason to keep growing this stuff! am I wrong?

You don't see Pharmaceutical companies reducing their prices. Instead they raise prices.

The last thing I ever wanted - The MMJ movement to go WALMART

crazyhazey · May 9, 2012

OrganicMechanic said:
Last Night a friend, with a big grow, offered me some great looking medicine - "Permafrost" for $150oz. It turned out to be one of the harshest buds I've smoked in a while; cough up a lung.

These guys are flooding the market with this stuff and the majority of consumers (patients) don't care about the quality as long as it "does the job" and the "price is low".

This is very frustrating when you actually care more about quality than you do about price....

once they try to mass produce MJ it will probably lose its quality, those plants are probably burned to shit. and i grow mmj "illegally", to tell the truth if i didnt id be taking xanax for pain relief. FL will most likely never be a MMJ state, its full of old fucks and right winged dickholes, pardon my french but if you came here you would understand why i say these things.
but back to the subject, people will subdue to the "walmart" of mariijuana but once they taste weed that was taken care of, im sure they will switch back to buying from a small time grower who treats his plants right.

OrganicMechanic · May 10, 2012

Thanks Crazy hazey.
Florida.... i can imagine how bad it can be. I spent a couple years in St. Pete when I was growing up. More Rain than necessary. lol. Where I currently live, there are two kinds of people - Rednecks and Yuppies. Total Clash

Also, it sucks being a small-time grower.... I can't get my hands on any popular cuttings when they are still deemed "popular", It's hard to keep up. No Dispensaries are open in town. Wish they would. It would probably make prices go up a little bit. Last year the DEA threatened local dispensaries. They all closed.

I don't receive many cuttings from friends; however I recently gave cuts to a couple friends of mine. They have medium-sized grows, and flooded their patients with it. Now, they don't want any dried/cured medicine from me because they already have too much of it. Fucking Walmart. Pretty Shitty. Next time I won't share my genetics.. Here's a lesson for some of you - Pay attention when your offering someone you prized cuts. They may not buy your dried Meds anymore.

I bought BOG's Lifesaver earlier this month and got a Payment verification from the Boutique on Tuesday. The only way to keep prices up is to constantly purchase new strains and offer your patients newer and better stuff. No one in town is getting my genetics. Hell no.

The problem with being a small-time Med grower is - we don't have the space to grow a dozen strains- due to plant # limits. I never go over limits....Ever! This is another reason why the Big-Growers are flourishing - They have the capacity to carry a large amount of strains.

mygirls · May 11, 2012

OrganicMechanic said:
Quit Growing MJ Due to Dropping Prices?

It seems that here in town med prices have dropped to a historical low; what seems to be NOTHING! There is a massive surplus here in town, such that $150 ounces are normal. This is Surreal.

It is convincing many others to scale down their grows like I have. Or, investing tons of cash into their grows and going Big. The problem with "going big" is many of these growers produce mediocre stuff that isn't medical grade - "hacking up a lung" - but looks great and has a Brand name attached to it like Diesel or Haze. These guys are keeping prices at an all time Low and flooding the market with Crap.

your illegal grow is no different then my legal grow.. the weed is still the same.. some growers just grow better then others.. the only reason its called medical marijuana is its for medical use only not recreation .. and they are illegal for selling there meds

Darwin Riddle · May 11, 2012

^^^^ He changed his original statement...which basically insinuated that he is upset that he can't sell his legally grown weed...LOL.

crazyhazey · May 11, 2012

OrganicMechanic said:
Thanks Crazy hazey.
Florida.... i can imagine how bad it can be. I spent a couple years in St. Pete when I was growing up. More Rain than necessary. lol. Where I currently live, there are two kinds of people - Rednecks and Yuppies. Total Clash

Also, it sucks being a small-time grower.... I can't get my hands on any popular cuttings when they are still deemed "popular", It's hard to keep up. No Dispensaries are open in town. Wish they would. It would probably make prices go up a little bit. Last year the DEA threatened local dispensaries. They all closed.

I don't receive many cuttings from friends; however I recently gave cuts to a couple friends of mine. They have medium-sized grows, and flooded their patients with it. Now, they don't want any dried/cured medicine from me because they already have too much of it. Fucking Walmart. Pretty Shitty. Next time I won't share my genetics.. Here's a lesson for some of you - Pay attention when your offering someone you prized cuts. They may not buy your dried Meds anymore.

I bought BOG's Lifesaver earlier this month and got a Payment verification from the Boutique on Tuesday. The only way to keep prices up is to constantly purchase new strains and offer your patients newer and better stuff. No one in town is getting my genetics. Hell no.

The problem with being a small-time Med grower is - we don't have the space to grow a dozen strains- due to plant # limits. I never go over limits....Ever! This is another reason why the Big-Growers are flourishing - They have the capacity to carry a large amount of strains.

if they dont want your well grown strains, sucks for them. they can go buy all that salt burned mass produced weed. that shit has all sorts of carcinogens i guarantee.
not to mention you only have so many plants so you must take care of them, they have hundreds they cant keep track of. you should start breeding too, make your own strain. get something they dont have, and make it killer.
i just crossed a strong blueberry(she stinks of blueberry muffins) strain that was purple/red/pink with a fast, i suspect autoflowering male. shes being revegged now, and shes going to be crossed with another early strain, as well as her seeds are going to be crossed with this strain. after that, i may get herijuana and cross them with it. nobody will have that strain, i havent found one person with an early heri berry strain, people around here wont know what to think when they see these buds. im sure a strain like that would get you some customers too, just try strains with lots of appeal.

Vindicated · May 13, 2012

I honestly want to see the prices get a lot lower and I'm betting they will go lower once cannabis is federally legalized. I personally got into growing to get free sensimilla cannabis for myself. Plus I was already into gardening anyway, so wasn't to hard to grow cannabis side by side carrots and snow peas.

crazyhazey · May 13, 2012

Vindicated said:
I honestly want to see the prices get a lot lower and I'm betting they will go lower once cannabis is federally legalized. I personally got into growing to get free sensimilla cannabis for myself. Plus I was already into gardening anyway, so wasn't to hard to grow cannabis side by side carrots and snow peas.

thats funny, weed got me into gardening hahaha, but free sensi is the shit, not to mention homegrown beats anything you can buy on the streets.
my bet is, itll be 5 bucks a gram 20 years from now.

bass1014 · May 15, 2012

wow you guys make me sick...lmao if i could get oz's for 150 i wouldnt bitch at all.i live in a non med state and all nugs here run 300 or better sometimes as much as 450 if it's fire.. so thats why i grow my own meds and fuck the rest of the high priced dealers tying to retire on selling bud.. mmj is being abused by the people that have no business in it in the first place.. they grow just to bring it to non legal states and rape the people that cant get it no other way and pay what ever we have to to get decent meds... so just think about that when you can roll over and get an oz of quality meds for a 150 bucks.you could be paying 400 a pop..and i will take oz's for 150 all day long..

OrganicMechanic · May 17, 2012

I was just wondering if anyone is seeing the same thing -----> big commercial growers (growing crap) and keeping prices lower than ever. I would rather buy an oz of great medicine for 240, than garbage medicine for 150. That's all I am saying. Sorry for coming off like an ass. Its easy to do that on this website.

MysticMorris · May 26, 2012

bass1014 said:
wow you guys make me sick...lmao if i could get oz's for 150 i wouldnt bitch at all.i live in a non med state and all nugs here run 300 or better sometimes as much as 450 if it's fire.. so thats why i grow my own meds and fuck the rest of the high priced dealers tying to retire on selling bud.. mmj is being abused by the people that have no business in it in the first place.. they grow just to bring it to non legal states and rape the people that cant get it no other way and pay what ever we have to to get decent meds... so just think about that when you can roll over and get an oz of quality meds for a 150 bucks.you could be paying 400 a pop..and i will take oz's for 150 all day long..

hehe, this is making my head spin aswell. I'm so jealous of you guys, the other day I bought 4grams of Super Silver Haze for roughly the equivelent of 100dollars. And it wasnt even that great weed (I was desperate).

So to recap - I get 4grams for a slightly lower price than you get 28. Happy days :weed:

Ok - I'm stoned - my maths is a bit screwed. Its a fair bit less than what u pay for an O

Darwin Riddle · May 27, 2012

zips go for anywhere from $350-$450, a piece, out here.

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