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ted · 07-31-2009, 10:04 AM

I live in Heaven - downtown Heaven, in fact, near PSU (Pretty Strange University) - and here in Heaven we only get killer drooling fall-on-your-face-and-twitch bud, so I can only quote killer prices: $40 for an eighth that weighs from 3.2 to 3.6.
Which I've always thought was curious. Pot must be a singular market unlike most others. It has been that price since the late eighties, despite an inflation rate that has reduced the value of the dollar by about half or more. There's been a consistant, repeated trend over that time; over a few years of inflation, the bags get lighter, but then suddenly they go back to full-weight. Inflation explains the former, but I guess competition is what returns bags to full weight. It means unavoidably that dealers get less and less actual profit over time, and how this is worked out - there certainly are enough dealers, I've never in thirty years of smoking had any trouble finding it - I do not know. Odd, huh?

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ted Old School Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Portland Oregon Posts: 250 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Portland, Oregon I live in Heaven - downtown Heaven, in fact, near PSU (Pretty Strange University) - and here in Heaven we only get killer drooling fall-on-your-face-and-twitch bud, so I can only quote killer prices: $40 for an eighth that weighs from 3.2 to 3.6. Which I've always thought was curious. Pot must be a singular market unlike most others. It has been that price since the late eighties, despite an inflation rate that has reduced the value of the dollar by about half or more. There's been a consistant, repeated trend over that time; over a few years of inflation, the bags get lighter, but then suddenly they go back to full-weight. Inflation explains the former, but I guess competition is what returns bags to full weight. It means unavoidably that dealers get less and less actual profit over time, and how this is worked out - there certainly are enough dealers, I've never in thirty years of smoking had any trouble finding it - I do not know. Odd, huh? __________________ - me