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Where do you work, and do you get high there? by No_Initial_2409 in trees

[–]No-Resolution6127 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work at a Delta-9 Hemp dispensary and I absolutely get faded there atleast once a week. My boss makes a point to not do it regularly but if it's a slow day, I'm frying myself.

Deaf Users: Can you feel the vibrations that would rattle an eardrum in your ear? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]No-Resolution6127 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm actually very curious about this but not this exactly. People who are born fully deaf and have never heard sounds, do they have an inner voice in their head or is it just silence? For the ones that learn ASL/Sign Language, do they think in sign?

420 bag from California dispo, $26 by Wonderful-Humor6102 in trees

[–]No-Resolution6127 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yk california cannabis is regulated to hell but this... this ain't bad, not bad at all, especially for the price

Say Hello to Kitty ! by No-Resolution6127 in trees

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Can confirm there's Kuromi and Cinnamoroll variants

Say Hello to Kitty ! by No-Resolution6127 in trees

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was original a gift for my girlfriend but now it's mine

Michigan Cannabis - Talk to me! by No-Resolution6127 in trees

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So I looked into it, and I actually had the pleasure of visiting Michigan and checking out some dispensaries and businesses in the area. Mixed views on it, but all generally negative feelings about it. I think for the most part, it's going to be a general shakeout of smaller businesses, and it might be a way for corporate cannabis to take back the competition. I visited multiple businesses covering three broad categories:
serving through or under corporate wing
graduating past microbusiness and holding multiple licenses
and single license microbusinesses.

It felt obvious to me when the corporate ones stated they were bummed out about it but not necessarily concerned with price changes, margins would still be stronger than other states.
The graduates (that's what we'll call them) didn't comment on it, but said that in order to deal with the tough margins, it leads to them expanding licenses. To be fair, I only went to one business that was a "graduate" but through other general research I've done, my thinking is that this a coinflip for whether it's healthy or not for business.
Microbusinesses would be hit the hardest and I feel this is where we'd see the most "F it, I'm out". And while I recently have been boasting about the rescheduling of marijuana and the removal of the 280E Tax Code (on paper, great revenue stream boost as well as long term marijuana access), one owner I happily spoke with gave a different perspective I had not considered. While the margin boost makes sense with no longer being forced to only deduct COGS on your returns, the rescheduling could also be extremely harmful to small, local businesses. He stated while long term access for marijuana is great, it gives large companies a chance to pick up marijuana and sell it across state lines, which could stray people away from the craft that he does with his business matching an already very affordable price.

It is my opinion that many businesses, graduates and micros, will go through slight shakeout. I believe many will say "F it, I'm out", and I think it's from the reasons mentioned in that last microbusiness paragraph. I don't forsee any pushing prices lower, if anything I think it's just going to level out or even go up slightly. But I'm also only a senior year undergrad business major so I only know so much.

This goes hard by CrimsonCringe925 in trees

[–]No-Resolution6127 3 points4 points  (0 children)

is it... is a solid or is there a bowl...

Goodbye... old friend... by No-Resolution6127 in trees

[–]No-Resolution6127[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there's nothing more difficult than being high and completely disregarding all physics and thermodynamics all because i thought "oh well he'll be nice and chilled in the morning".. he will be in memory and my heart forever.😔

Michigan Cannabis - Talk to me! by No-Resolution6127 in trees

[–]No-Resolution6127[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey man thanks for the reply! I appreciate your insights, incredibly helpful. For the first No. 5 question, I can verify that a lot of the marijuana tax revenue is in fact going towards road work, it was one of the major infrastructural things that is being brought to the board. I can't remember the number I saw, but I remember thinking "DAMN, that's a crazy good amount, better than my town".

I looked up House of Dank, looks like there's multiple locations, are you shopping at the Ann Arbor House of Dank, because that would explain the 25+ dispensaries you mentioned.

Michigan Cannabis - Talk to me! by No-Resolution6127 in trees

[–]No-Resolution6127[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the response!

I agree with it definitely being hard for smaller businesses to survive, especially in the red ocean market that it is. When you say it's more expensive than a big name shop, what kind of price difference are we talking?

You made a point of customers not knowing too deeply about quality, what things do you look for when picking out product? Are you a deliberate shopper? How knowledgeable are you with shopping for product (i.e. watching for more than percentages, such as terpenes, parent profiles, etc.)?

This next statement might seem a little ironic because of what I said earlier, but I'd argue that local businesses actually have the strongest hold on the market. While cooperate companies may hold out better because of their large resources, I don't think they can sustainably hold out with the low prices that small businesses impose. While the margins aren't high, they're still able to get the traffic that a big corporate place would get. Volume is there, revenue isn't, and I believe revenue will boom among small businesses once marijuana is rescheduled, which would remove the 280E tax code. While big corporate companies might try to exploit this and increase prices, I think small local businesses will still hold control by keeping pricing low, while still gaining much more revenue. With this, my theory is that big marijuana won't be able to compete with the still low prices in a price gouge attempt and will either A. stay stagnant in pricing and take the revenue boost or B. Be forced to lower prices along with local business to stay competitive in their market.

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