Sale of Recreational Marijuana Begins in Washington State.

Potatoes cost about 33 cents a piece, so a $20 potato would be 60 times more expensive. If CO weed were 60 times more expensive I would agree with you, but obviously you are using gross exaggeration to try to support your point. If a potato happened to cost 66 cents where you live even if you knew that they were 33 cents other places, I doubt all but those on the tightest budgets would give a shit in the long run.

Besides, a $20 potato doesn't sustain most people for several weeks to a month, but a $50 bag does. I've known some pretty broke-ass mofos who can still manage to scrape together enough for an eighth on a regular basis. There are over 100,000 registered medical marijuana users in Colorado.

You feel bad for me because you feel the product is too expensive where I live, but I feel bad for you because you apparently think that $50 is a King's Ransom or a luxury that only the rich can afford.

-Byshop

Anyone who votes in favor of legalizing marijuana is a stoner.

What I said is a fact, and you don't have anything to prove me wrong.

The point is clearly beyond you, I used the potato example as an exaggeration to clearly illustrate it, in case you didn't understand my gas analogy. I figure you're just being contrarian, which is why you dodged my gas analogy because that was the direct and initial comparison I was making. It has nothing to do with being rich. I simply feel sorry for people who feel like they need to spend so much money to get high. There's no love for budget users (which are the majority) in CO. Habitual users I know typically use around 1g/day on average, which is a $14.25/day habit in CO versus $7.14/day. People who regularly drink coffee spend $7.14 on their Starbucks coffee in the morning, so in WA it's not as much of a noteworthy habit. Double the price though and it's a lot more noteworthy.

Why? That makes no sense.

I mean voting for legalizing something you don't even do. Are you just waiting for it to be legal so you can try it?

If you're smoking almost a quarter a week then you have shifted from "passtime" to "problem". Shocker that your buddies who smoke that much have limited funds.

Look, the simple fact is that $50 is simply what it costs here. Just becuase you happen to live in one of the few places where it is cheaper, that does not make $50 some crazy high amount and if you think it is then you are willfully being naive. Congrats that you spend less, but it's simply not that cheap most places. I've travelled the US quite a bit, and 45 to 50 is average.

-Byshop

Americans sure pay a fortune for marijuana , can get arressted for possession while its few cents and easily accessible in couple of third world countries ( India , Nepal ) =P

@indzman: Another good point that invalidates KHAndAnime's. Weed is even cheaper in other countries than it is in WA, so that that actually make WA "not a good place for weed" because it happens to be cheaper somewhere else?

-Byshop

not even gonna argue with that juvenile train of thought

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I'm glad I don't smoke. Alcohol seems like a better means to waste my money :)

Interested because I have the exact opposite view. I would much rather smoke weed over drinking. A lot more healthier with less bad side effects.

To each his own. But I don't crave weed like I do a nice cold beer on a hot day. Alcohol is so much more versatile and satisfying than a plant.

I don't crave weed, but thinking beer is good for you on a hot day is a fool's way of thinking.

You mean beer isn't the go-to drink after working on the lawn in the hot sun in the middle of July for 4 hours? lol

You missed the joke, apparently.

As long as they do it in their own home or business and away from those of us who don't want to partake then I have no problem with it (hell tax them high and make some money). But for crying out loud stay off the road, my cousin and his daughter got into a head long collusion with some pot head who thought it would be great to go for a drive higher then the ISS (just pot, no alcohol or other drugs in his system). Idiot didn't realize he crossed over into the oncoming lane and hit them. They made it thankfully but my cousin was cut up pretty bad. Needless to say they sued this guy out the ears.