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A good start!

Is there a comprehensive list somewhere other than leafly?

I think it’s just growing too fast right now, I keep hearing about new ones!

Same, the one in Cambridge really surprised me since that’s like 15min from my house, and never imagined having one so close.

Haven’t been there…but still is kinda cool.

https://ccb.vermont.gov/licenses

That took a while

I don’t know about to fast but I do wonder about the longevity of some in smaller places. As the poster below mentioned, there is one in Cambridge which could serve Smuggs I guess but the amount of money which needs to be invested in inventory that has a shelf life vs the off season sales must be a big financial commitment by the owner.

I hope we eventually get to the point where it can be sold like beer or wine, or even like liquor, and the distribution channels become normalized.

Better yet, sold at the farmers market. If that happened I would get the tent back out and supplement my income quickly.

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https://headyvermont.com/ seems to stay up to date pretty quickly

Last I knew, they'd made almost $330k in tax revenue. https://www.wcax.com/video/2022/12/20/vermont-officials-say-cannabis-tax-revenue-track/

Really hoping this starts to bring the prices now because the current pricing does not beat the illegal market

I don’t know if the state has “made” money or ever will make money off drug sales.

I’m all for legal pot from a freedom stand point, but there will be real, ongoing costs associated with legal drugs over the long term.

The government “made” money off cigarette taxes too, until the health care costs exploded and ate all that revenue and more in the out years.

I would be interested to see the cost of regulation, enforcement, expansion of state government and government services for drug abusers be tallied and projected so we can see if there is actually a net financial gain to the state’s coffers.

Wow even grandmas gonna have weed now.

It's not comprehensive though.

No you're right, it seems to be an opt-in directory so it's up to the individual retailers to add themselves. I noticed right away that Gram Central is missing.

Good, don't let the nimbys in your town tell you what you can and can't have

The convenience will until then

Edit: yeah what am I gonna do? wait 4-8 hours for a text back or take a nice 30 minute drive with a guarantee and then be able to get on with my whole day instead of waiting around.

You may have the prices, but that's not going to be enough.

You're competing with instant gratification and a wider selection of products in a legal market that just opened here, & it is figuring out fast that it's competing with MA prices too. The prices will even out eventually so what will be left for the black market to compete with unless one of you is finally willing to sell me plants! Because home growing has been legal this entire time...

I dont trust it ever since Eli Harrington left.

I was visiting friends in MA a couple weeks ago and a grandma was my budtender at the dispensary I stopped at! She was incredibly helpful, we need more weed grandmas.

Yeah, I'm sure states like Colorado and Maine regret their decisions. You should look into it since you're so concerned.

Embarrassingly slow

The real question is how much do these places pay their help and what kind of benefits do they offer? What’s the average yearly Salary?

If thats your experience you have shitty friends lol

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Yes I figured, I was using friends in a loose way. My point was your issue is with the service, not the product. So find better service.

I have, at the dispensary. That was my whole point lol

No kidding, my point was that everything Ive heard about the dispensaries so far is that they are low quality overpriced product, but I can understand why that is not the case for some people. Different people have different standards/needs. But theres a reason craft marijuana is a thing.

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> but if dealers want to keep up they should start thinking about what people like about having a dispensary and then work with that.

My thoughts exactly honestly. Convenience is a huge factor, people will need a reason to do something else. Currently high prices and quality are a good enough reason for some, but obviously not everyone.

Personally I really dont like 'dealers' having flowers from other dispensaries/growers as so often happens, youre literally getting whats not good enough to enter the market or overstock lol. I think personal growers and the such will have to make quality as high as possible for it to be worth it if the dispensaries get their collective shit together lol. Food is something id much rather leave to dispensaries and government regulation, same with cartridges. Too easy to make something that makes people sick or does harm imo

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Yes .... your logic is flawless. ... just NOW suddenly.... when we have made it legal... NOW we are going to see the repercussions of people smoking it.

No one ever smoked it in mass quantities before it was legal, definitely not.

Weed smokers in their 70s who've been smoking their whole lives aren't a thing. Hippies in Vermont? Never!

And we obviously never spent a dime trying to track down those illegal marijuana grow ops and dealers before..

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.oh wait....

There isn't some massive cancer movement coming from weed, they can't even quantify it on a hand eye coordination scale - hence having no real metric to determine a DUI - and states have blown millions of dollars on this repeatedly.

Your comment made me laugh at least.

Wow. You fell off the deep end there. I hope you are wearing your floaties.

I'm willing to pay more to have it taxed and those taxes benefit my community. I'm willing to pay more for a regulated consistent product. I'm willing to pay more so that I can be 100% sure none of my money is funding anything sketchy or outright morally reprehensible. I'm guessing most VT weed people are local growers and sellers but being 100% sure feels better to me.

I can't wait to see about three years worth of data. I'm going to drive my self crazy asking myself "What if we had done this 10 years ago?"

> none of my money is funding anything sketchy or outright morally reprehensible.

I've got bad news about the legal cannabis market, friend.

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Sure, I've bought seeds MANY times. I'm referring to the legal cannabis biz being full of fuckery so you can't be sure who or what your money is going to unless you personally know the people. Maybe you do <shrug>

Look up Glass House in Cali. Their CEO is an ex-Cop who used to put cannabis growers in cages. That's the type of dirty ass shit that goes on in the legal industry, unfortunately.

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Here ya go, brutha.

Kyle Kazan: former cop now CEO of a massive race to the bottom and drive small farmers out of business cannabis company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-m-jIC3oA

I don't buy from stores or the black market, but it's still important to know that there's so much fucked up shit like this that happens on the legal side. So yeah, spend your dollars wisely if you can. Have a good one.

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Jesus, calm down.

Corrupt testing:

https://beardbrospharms.com/2022/12/13/delays-shortfalls-plague-california-state-cannabis-testing-lab/

https://beardbrospharms.com/2022/10/06/thc-potency-florida/

https://beardbrospharms.com/2022/08/11/testing-sued-arkansas-consumers-over-false-thc-results/

Unsafe work environments:

https://beardbrospharms.com/2022/11/14/osha-cannabis-trulieve-worker-death/

That's just a quick search because you can't be assed to google for yourself.

I mean, is it actually some sort of shock to you that there's corruption and shady shit going on on the legal side? Lol.

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I corroborated the one claim about a specific person which is what I thought you were asking about. 10 thousand apologies for the grand imposition on your precious time. And you know what? It pretty much doesn't get any worse than a former cop driving small farms out of business. Hand wave it away if you feel like it, but IMO that's about as fucked as it gets on the legal side. Let's call that the top of the pyramid and it should be an eye-opener. Ain't nobody got time to ask for a CEO's bio when they go into a store, so navigating which companies should and shouldn't be supported is a bit of a tricky situation.

I don't know anything about people that you mentioned. Hopefully, they're solid folks, but just because weed is legal now I don't go off the blanket assumption that all my dollars- should I choose to spend them- are going to good and moral people.

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Bro, smoke some nice homegrown or some shit. You sound both wound up and as sensitive as a porcelain doll. You need better weed, holy shit. The larfy and old dispersary OD isn't doing you any favors.

I made statements and corroborated my point. Now go do some reading, junior.

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