One of the biggest complaints from consumers is the price of weed. When compared to the black market, the consensus agrees that it is expensive. But, relatively speaking, when compared to other pleasures like alcohol, is recreational marijuana really that expensive?
It’s a Friday evening and you are lounging around watching a movie or catching an NBA game on your television. To enhance your enjoyment, let’s say you have 3-4 micro-brews during the course of the evening. At $9.99 a 6 pack, you’re looking at $4.50 to $6.00.
Now, prices have come down for recreational marijuana. But, let’s just say you buy yourself a gram of a good strain from a good producer for $20. You can probably squeeze four bowls out of that gram. If this is the case, for $5, you would most likely have your evening covered.
While recreational pot may seem expensive when compared to what we are used to with the black market, when compared to beer, it doesn’t seem that bad. Does it?
Let’s look at another example…
We posted a review of ZootRocks last week, our first review of cannabis-infused edibles.
There are 20 ZootRocks in package, with each lozenge containing 5mg of THC. Most likely, one of these lozenges may be sufficient, although you may find yourself having two during the course of the entire evening. If this is the case, these ZootRocks should last you 10 evenings. Based on the price of $38, the price comes out to be less than $4 an evening.
Less than $4 an evening, when compared to alcohol, sounds like a bargain! Also, keep in mind that the bargain won’t fully be realized until you wake up the next morning without having to deal with a ‘damn hangover.
What are your thoughts on the prices of recreational marijuana? When comparing to alcohol or beer, do you still think it is overpriced?
Manic Conrad
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bizz says
What? Seriously is that how I should view retailers who rip customers off when there is an oversupply at the producer level. Haha nice try at reasoning price gouging with beer!
Please educate yourself before you write such nonsense. These rec owners have 300% markups currently while suffocating the farmers who feed em.
http://mmjbusinessdaily.com/marijuana-price-crash-in-washington-state-could-result-in-business-bloodletting-consolidation/
“The script has been flipped from demand outpacing the supply to growers in the past few months having over-produced 10 times what’s being sold in retail stores,” said Ramsey Hamide, owner of the Main Street Marijuana rec shop in Vancouver, Washington. Adding processors are “absolutely scared to death. “I can name five or six farms that grew between 1,000 or 2,000 pounds, and they fully admit, ‘We’ve got 1,000 pounds sitting here we’re trying to sell right now,’” Hamide said.
Seattle Marijuana Blog says
Thanks for your feedback.