Legal weed makes me sad.

[Amerikan Melanin]

Nah. It's because that's basically OUR money. We were the ones who got the bad reps and jail sentences behind it. But now that it's in vogue these cacs legalized, and basically gentrified it

Exactly. I’m an old head so I saw the drug war in full effect. These young boys not understanding the sentiment.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Try weening yourself off of weed if you can. I stopped drinking about a little over a decade ago. Just to become sharper mentally. You will definitely see your productivity increase.

I only do edibles sparingly. I’m extremely productive. I also don’t drink except in a social setting. I’m good. Trust.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

I think if you from New York you can relate more to OP. In the city it was like a cat and mouse game buying weed from a certain block.

In my old hood the go to spot from like 06-2011 was 135th and riverside. I remember walking there once and homie told me to come back in a hour they still bagging up. I walked up the block to my grandmother's building and two DTs run up on me asking me what I was doing copping on riverside I'm like " I can't walk around My old neighborhood now?". They searched me, didn't find shyt n kept it moving. People use to get locked up frequently coming from that block but they had the best haze at the time

I used to cop on 145 down the street from willie burgers. Jamaicans had an apt FULL of weed. Chocolate. Trash bags full. They had the shyt blacked out and would be in there with the burners waiting for someone to get stupid.

You’d come out hoping you ain’t get stuck up or jacked by cops. Mind you I had to make it all the way back across the river holding.

I’m happy it’s legal so the young kids ain’t got to go thru that shyt. Makes me sad that we not getting a cut of that money being as we built that industry and pushed it mainstream thru popular culture.

 

[Who Not How]

When you're the boss, you change the rules of the game when you want to. White people got the dispensary game on lock for now but there are other ways to make money legally in the weed game.

 

[Who Not How]

The dispensaries out here be looking like Apple Stores

The ones in Illinois look too clean and empty for me. I like the "grungy", smaller looking ones in Washington state and the prices way cheaper since it's been legal out here longer. Illinois taxing out the ass right now,

 

[Harry Sax]

Growing is where the money is

 

[Jaden S.]

Told you dispos be poppin like that.

 

[IShotTheSheriff]

I’m not for legal weed. Decriminalized is the way to go. Prices go too high In legal weed states.

Interesting take.

Where I am weed is completely legal and you can grow a certain amount yourself. Prices started out kinda shaky but there's so much competition now you can get an eighth of some LOUD LOUD for about $22-$28

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Big facts. Got fam who did decades in jail over that shyt.

 

[Sex Luthor]

Told you dispos be poppin like that.

That's trash if y'all don't have online ordering. That's the businesses fault not the consumer

 

[Jaden S.]

That's trash if y'all don't have online ordering. That's the businesses fault not the consumer

We have online too delivery is cool but their pickup system is woat. Either way u gonna spend time in line

 

[Music Fiend]

I feel you. I've spent time in precints/central booking over half smoked blunts and dime bags. I remember how stressful it was trying to cop hoping u don't get locked up

While I completely agree, i kinda think OPs problem is that the game has changed and white folks who weren't harassed but smoking all along can now benefit financially and enjoy that shyt with any issue.

But what's the alternative tho? I rather not go to jail or have someone I know go to jail over some weed

But I feel you, I wish they would expunge weed related "crimes" that aren't with intent to distribute

 

[Rusty$hackleford]

The one in the back I don't know what it is, bagseed my bro gave me from some dispo weed. Small one directly in front of it is a cutting I took from it as it showed female 2 weeks ago, took a few more that haven't rooted yet. One in front right is a male I'm pretty sure, a runt too. Will cut down soon as I'm certain
@Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

ive heard legal weed is trash so ive stuck with my regular dude who has better shyt than any of the medical ive tried to this point

ima get my card one day tho just so i can cop a cart to smoke in public...shyt isnt legal here but its decriminalized. i kinda live in a small boro so i think its still illegal where i'm at even tho i'm 2 steps away from legality.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

It's like if only brehs had the will power to only spend their money with other brehs

We make life overtly complicated.... Other people do this culturally n damn near automatically. There's a poster here who had been part owner of a dispensary and had to hide that it was Black owned to have his business successful.

We have the customer base and the spending but not the businesses. It's organization that is lacking within us in most facets of life. Cacs gonna spend money with their own given the choice 9 times out of 10 now that they don't have to go on missions to cop. It was dudes on here saying fukk dispensaries... Nah fukk not getting paid off weed after all the years of getting persecuted the most from it. With legalization should have come an organized drive to drive Black money to Black businesses.

At some point brothers we will have to stop talking about how the money is escaping us while we spend it with everyone but us. .

(Please stop with the legal weed vs street weed arguments. shyt is retarded. The difference is tax)