Colorado’s Pot Shops Say They’ll Be Sold Out Any Day Now

Time ^ | January 04, 2014 | Brad Tuttle

[Ken H]

A few days into the experiment, the new world of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado appears to be a big success—so much so that pot shops are finding it impossible to keep up with demand.

According to the Denver Post, at least 37 stores in Colorado were licensed to sell recreational pot to anyone 21 or over as of New Year’s Day. The Associated Press and others reported long lines outside Denver pot shops, with some eager customers forced to wait three to five hours before getting a chance to go inside, step up to the counter, and make a purchase.

Prices have been steep—in some cases, stores were charging $50 or even $70 for one-eighth of an ounce of pot that cost medical marijuana users just $25 the day before—and taxes add on an extra 20% or so. Even so, sales have been brisk.

The two operational pot shops in Pueblo collectively sold $87,000 of marijuana on January 1, per the Pueblo Chieftain, and store owners say that if demand persists anywhere near the current high, they’ll be sold out in the very near future.

[marron]

States should probably have the authority to decide if its legal or not.

But this reminds me of “Republic... if you can keep it”. Try and build freedom with a drugged populace. A few you can absorb. More than a few and you start twisting into the tarmac.

[Cyropaedia]

Why go to the government approved, overpriced dispensories? Don’t the buyers already have connections?

So if you like your weed, you can keep your weed...?

[marron]

I suppose its notable that the people who are demanding freedom to smoke are not by and large demanding freedom to start businesses and educate their children or choose their own health care. We might see these as seamlessly related issues but I don’t know that the average pothead sees it that way.

[Washi]

This year it will be Utah, even though it will be a little more expensive, in order to avoid the stoner culture we would surely find at the CO resorts.

Because, Lord knows, there weren't any stoner skiers or snowboarders on the slopes before Colorado passed this law.

[dennisw]

<<<<>>> Dems are loving this!!!!!

[Washi]

I wonder how long until people start getting robbed so someone can buy more pot for themselves.

Was that sarcasm, or do you really think that isn't already happening in every state in the nation for every kind of drug, legal and illegal?

[vette6387]

“The Federal government has absolutely no authority to regulate what people smoke. None whatsoever v”

But they have passed laws making POSSESSION illegal! You can smoke it, you just can’t have it to smoke.
It will be interesting to see if the FEDs try to interfere with the Colorado law like they have been doing in California with respect to “medical marijuana.” Here, they are threatening the owners of buildings leased to “marajuana dispensaries” with the forfeiture of their real estate under the Federal drug laws unless they kick out the dispensaries to whom they rent space. Who knows, maybe Colorado will take them on. It would be fun to watch.

[wardaddy]

This forum is rabidly anti pot because I think that most freepers (yankees and others)live where pot smokers tend to be libs or occupy sorts and that naturally rankles them...yet I know pot smokers in Michigan and NorCal who are right wing or Randian at least...personally

The rest is reefer madness nonsense

I live in Dixie....99% of the hundred or so pot smokers I know are God guns and guts types

I smoked pot from 71-84..

I doubt many here consider me a lib.

Pot is not without faults but I prefer to be around a stoner more than a drunk

I really despised cocaine snorters....all blather....

I am only addicted to one thing....punani......or just a woman’s love and physical affection......a lifelong severe addiction

I have no plans to try to quit.....ever.

Freepers can sure be silly nannies....they toss liberty out the window on a whim

So fire away y’all

War daddy....racist anti Semite homophone sexist bigot neoconfederate pot apologist

Could anyone possibly make this stuff up?

Why don’t I still smoke.....I’m too damn busy....I’d love to on occasion otherwise and I just might

[RedHeeler]

The Pot Head yammerin’, are always right, by opinion.

[AnAmericanInEngland]

Federal Government backed police officers handling drug users is bad, but federal government backed evangelists handling drug users would be OK? Sounds nanny state with either a gun or a bible.

[wardaddy]

Susanville?

I love that area.....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, I didn’t quite have that in mind. General evangelism. Ultimately this is going to have to be a function of what is written at the top of the U.S. Constitution. I.e. “We The People.” Because the church can’t be subject to Caesar.

[RedHeeler]

Good. How do you know it?

[Kegger]

I know that's always been an argument of the legalize crowd but I never bought it. The users have already established what price they are willing to pay-why would a seller, especially if turned out to be the government-charge any less than the illegal dealers did?

It has only been a few days, do you expect equilibrium price already?

[Mark17]

Susanville? I love that area.....

CCC and CSP High Desert?

[Travis McGee]

I’m happy to see states going their own way. If Colorado pays a price in social fallout, so be it, they can serve as a test lab. And anything that diminishes the clout of an overarching fedgov leviathan is a good thing in my mind.

[Anton.Rutter]

Why go to the government approved, overpriced dispensories? Don’t the buyers already have connections?

So if you like your weed, you can keep your weed...?

[Rebelbase]

Since the cigarette buying age was raised to 18 it’s easier for kids in high school to buy pot than cigarettes.

[cloudmountain]

It seems you could easily apply all of that to alcohol as well, except I would rather deal with someone who smoked a bowl the night before than drank to excess.
is funny how much my experience with people who smoke a lot is from the stereotype on here. Lots and lots of smart capable people, who don’t escalate to harder drugs, smoke weed regularly.

I guess it's always unfortunate that some people need SOME drug/opiate/whatever to pump into their body to cope with world.

Alcohol and pot are not addictive, habit forming, yes, but not addictive. I haven't heard of booze as a gateway drug to addictive drugs. But I have heard that about pot.
I guess weak people unable to cope with the world will turn to whatever is available.

Your comment "Lots and lots of smart capable people, who don’t escalate to harder drugs, smoke weed regularly" belies what doctors say. But what do THEY know?
My husband's BEST friend was a pot smoker. He's dead now but not after his brain turned to mush after the all of pot smoking. He spoke the same way you do of pot. Such a waste.
Our best man, also a friend of my husband, was a drunk. He got sober, decided he was gay (after marriage and two children) and died of AIDS, as his YOUNG lover got AIDS and gave it to our best man. He chose homosexuality, since there is no gay or bisexual gene, as he chose alcohol and chose to stop drinking.

[KevinB]

Because, Lord knows, there weren't any stoner skiers or snowboarders on the slopes before Colorado passed this law.

Of course there were, but it was pretty discrete. I don't expect the case now. I'm not a prude by any stretch, but I don't like stoners.