CA taxes...WOW! Just got my RX

[BigmanPigman]

filled and I got a copy of the new taxes. It is almost the same for both recreational and medical. State sales...15%, County (San Diego)...7.75%, Local Municipality for recreational only...5%. Total for recreational...27.75% and medical...22.75%.

An 1/8 for top shelf flower is $55-60 before taxes.

[yallerdawg]

1. What does it cost at the "local" level...

without going the taxable route?

And doesn't everyone get to grow up to 6 plants at home for personal use?

[BigmanPigman]

2. I wouldn't know since I have been

buying mine for about 5 years at dispensaries or through delivery services since I do have the medical card and it is easier than trying to find it on my own. My old suppliers were usually old boyfriends so I always got mine really, really cheap through them. I can't even grow a cactus so I won't be trying to grow anything ever again.

[malchickiwick]

3. OUCH!! And I thought prices were high here in Vegas!

Top shelf eighths here are around $50-$60 after taxes. Quality is a challenge here in the desert too. I assume the NoCal stuff is better quality than anything available here

[maranadem]

4. Jesus, we used to buy kilos on Height street for $80.00

I stoppd smoking that stuff when it hit $15.00 an 0z,

[CountAllVotes]

6. No more $10 lids

Those days are long gone.

[Canoe52]

11. What lids dont cost $10 anymore?

Damn we is old!

[CountAllVotes]

13. Well, "meshmecca" was $15 a lid

Better quality or so they said!

[customerserviceguy]

9. Wasn't that back in the day

when a postage stamp was only 8 or 10 cents? And gasoline was 30-35 cents a gallon?

[Canoe52]

15. I got my gas for 29.9 cents, and a pack of cigarettes for 45 cents

I’d stop at McDonalds for my lunch break get their biggest hamburger (no Big Macs yet) an apple pie and a milk shake, hand them a dolllar bill and get change back...

But then I was making $1.65 an hour...

[cannabis_flower]

14. I don't buy top shelf..

but I can get good Mexican green here in Houston for $20 a quarter oz.

[CountAllVotes]

5. Only the well off will be able to afford it

and as for you sick medical patient, to hell w/you.

They have got what they wanted and we pay the price in the end yet it was those same people that got the whole thing going to begin with via prop. 215.

How very sad.

[msongs]

7. artificially keeping the prices way high. monopoly price fixing. cartels will undercut that soon nt

[CountAllVotes]

8. if not already!

Hmmm ... now what was that phone # again?

[ghostsinthemachine]

10. The "black market" will

Stick around for a long time. Thats above "street" prices, before taxes. The shops will become edible, extracts sellers though. Buds? 50 an 1/8 maximum for primo sativas, 60 for indicas. But oz.s are under 200 for anything. 1500 top grade a pound. (The retailers pay even less than that).

Keep your medical card, thats untaxed.
One problem in the switch. But a boon for me, is that now. Growers that grow in counties that have a strict ordinance in place, are now shut out of the legal market. They werent with prop 215's lax rules, but now they are. That really screws counties that are known as pot producers, out of participating. I lived in one. I moved because they were putting in a super strict ordinance after a pro pot measure failed.
I now live in a county that wants to be the Napa county of pot. Everyone is gearing up, tripling their gardens. Greenhouses for light dep operations.
It aint easy though. 25 plants and youve got a full time job. 100 plants youve got to be on drip, have a 🚜, water on site, and help during the season. After harvest takes a lot of help. Even if you machine trim. 50 days of trimming for 25 2lb plants. 5lb plants are not uncommon, although ive never come close.

Its going to be interesting how this shakes out. Im a hobby grower now, so I have no dog in the fight, but a lot of people are going to find this an boon, others will be without their way of life.

[TeamPooka]

12. legal to grow your own now. Super cheap that way