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posted by CoolHand on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the backup-jar dept.

For some reason the state of Nevada underestimated the demand that would be generated by recreationally legal weed. Alcohol distributors appear to be at fault rather than it being an issue of cultivator supply. There are hundreds of growers with crops ready to go but due to an agreement with the state's alcohol distributors, for the first 18 months of legalization only they are allowed to transport weed from cultivation centers to stores. Since the law went into effect on July 1st the state has only received about half a dozen applications for a transport license.

Nevada officials have declared a state of emergency over marijuana: There's not enough of it.

Since recreational pot became legal two weeks ago, retail dispensaries have struggled to keep their shelves stocked and say they will soon run out if nothing is done to fix a broken supply chain.

"We didn't know the demand would be this intense," Al Fasano, cofounder of Las Vegas ReLeaf, said Tuesday. "All of a sudden you have like a thousand people at the door....We have to tell people we're limited in our products."

In declaring a state of emergency late last week, the state Department of Taxation warned that "this nascent industry could grind to a halt."

As bad as that would be for marijuana consumers and the pot shops, the state has another concern: tax revenue. A 10% tax on sales of recreational pot — along with a 15% tax on growers — is expected to generate tens of millions of dollars a year for schools and the state's general fund reserves.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:20PM (13 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:20PM (#538750) Journal

    Alcohol distributors appear to be at fault rather than it being an issue of cultivator supply.

    People smoke less pot than they drink booze. A $40 eighth ounce of weed lasts me at least two months of nightly use for sleeping. I have spent easily north of $40 for a single night out at a fancy bar on just my drinks alone. The alcohol industry is not happy about legalization at all.

    Quick story:
    The other night I was getting ready for bed when an old friend called to tell me his sister had passed away and that he needed to talk to someone over a beer. I already smoked my new favorite mix I call Diesel Cookies, a 50/50 mix of sour diesel and girl scout cookies. Hits hard and peaks nicely so I can enjoy an hour of TV and then pass out. Anyway, I was able to walk over to the bar and we sat and drank. He must have drank six beers while I could barely drink two. In fact, I didn't even want to drink. I drank because I'm in a bar and I was thirsty from the weed. We were there for about three hours and I was still plenty high from just ONE nice hit.

    That's another thing about weed, a nice cold drink has greater thirst quenching power. Instead of wanting to chug the beer, you sip it and it's much more satisfying. So you enjoy your beer at a slow pace without binging. Same with other drinks like water or even iced tea (I make my own fresh from green tea bags and fresh lemon.) You take small satisfying sips every once in awhile.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:25PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:25PM (#538753)

    > Instead of wanting to chug the beer, you sip it and it's much more satisfying. So you enjoy your beer at a slow pace without binging.

    That could be good for the beer industry, or at least the small breweries, because then you're more likely to drink a higher quality more expensive product, than just tolerate the usual cheap piss.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:01PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:01PM (#538762)

    Well, in my 20s I used to smoke upwards of 2OZ a week.

    I stopped smoking so much when I started doing harder drugs (DMT, AMT, LSD, COKE, etc) and only used weed to take the edge off after a night of partying.

    A night out could easily be 300-400 on booze, 500-800 in coke, and $30 in weed.

    Having cleaned myself up, I'm now back to 3.5 will last me a week. I still prefer to pick it up from dealers because the quality is usually better. And dispensaries near me charge easily $30-40 MORE for a 3.5.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:21PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:21PM (#538768)

      Buuuullllshittttt. 2 oz of weed is an insane amount. Did you have chronic emohezema? Did you just waste a shit ton of it? Were you smoking out 2-5 friends every time? Your story just reeks of unexplained bullshit.

      But hey, that seems to be SN these days

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:31PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:31PM (#538775)
        I smoked an oz a week myself for years. Just smoking only after work.

        2 oz a week isn't a stretch at all if you use less efficient forms like the joint.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @08:14PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @08:14PM (#538844)

        I've smoked a QP in two days before... Obvously not all to the dome, but I don't smoke solo anyway, the only drug I use non-socially is nicotine. I used to smoke a quarter a day, everytime I see a friend, I roll up, they roll up, we smoke both blunts. If you have money and time, building a tolerance is not difficult at all.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @02:58PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @02:58PM (#539134)

        It's quite easy to smoke 2oz.

        Wake up smoke a joint, take a shower, get out smoke another one, go to work, smoke a couple more in the morning, smoke few more in the afternoon. Keep that going, before you know it. You've blew thru a ton of weed. It's quite simple.

        Add in a vape/bong and suddenly you notice you do SMOKE a lot of weed. My vape you could load easily 1.5G into it. And get 6-7 good tokes off it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:24PM (#538770)

      The weed I currently get from dispensaries in SoCal is way better than what I got on the street in the 1970s, with the exception of some Kona Gold a biker shared once. The price really hasn't inflated as much as everything else either. I only use about 1/3 oz per month for pain relief at bedtime, and I have no desire to get high during the rest of the day or go on to harder drugs. AAMOF, the weed replaced my prescription Fentanyl. It works better, costs less, doesn't leave me plastered all day, and isn't as habitual as Fentanyl.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:40PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:40PM (#538778)

      DMT is about the only drug on my to-do list. LSD/NBOMe isn't even that hard, but is fantastic. I can't get it anymore because I'm not cool and I don't want to order drugs with shitcoin and get DEA'D.

      Shrooms are great because they can be grown easily but are harsher than LSD/NBOMe IMO.

    • (Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Thursday July 13 2017, @06:11PM (2 children)

      by SanityCheck (5190) on Thursday July 13 2017, @06:11PM (#538784)

      When I read stuff like this I'm only left wondering WTF is wrong with people.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @07:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @07:13PM (#538817)

        It's called "Chasing the dragon".

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 13 2017, @11:37PM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 13 2017, @11:37PM (#538897) Journal

        ^ Exactly.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @06:43PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @06:43PM (#538798)

    The alcohol industry is not happy about legalization at all.

    Speak for yourself. I make alcoholic beverages, and I'm outright delighted with legalisation for a whole range of reasons, not least being economic. A less hidebound, more permissive society with an eye on health rather than incarceration suits me right down to the ground.

    Nope, never smoked weed, and don't want to. Still think that it's a great trend.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 13 2017, @11:42PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 13 2017, @11:42PM (#538898) Journal

      "the industry" isn't exactly determined by what some bartenders/barmaids think, or want. The collective industry sees pot as competition. That is a narrow minded view, but apparently, that is the view. There have been a number of articles in recent years, detailing how much money the alcohol industry has spent lobbying against legalization. Without that lobbying effort, legalization of pot would probably have happened considerably sooner.