i'm curious how much taxes there are on weed in different legal places...
all i can say about legal markets is about the dutch - every shop owner will tell u something different about taxes, guess bc every shop has its own 'arrangement' - for decades there are some big grey areas within the legalisation in the netherlands...
Prices vary for weed as usual depending on quality/heritage from 2€ -20€/g with 10 around average,
the bad thing over the past years was that the police raided some of the honest, decade old 'grey-legal' growers and more criminal parties took over which supposedly increased the price... official i can't say anything about it i only go for hash
, largest selection in the world is still n amsterdam i believe.
That takes me to production costs - a farmer in morocco gets for mid grade (largest quantity of screening) around 50 cents a gram, which will be in the 5-6€ range in a shop after export but still more than decent if u r lucky. The new 'fashion' trend in shops is official advertised as 'dutch genetics grown in morocco' - the same farmer gets now 51 cent a gram and is supplied with fertilizer, the result is a bit more potent artificial flowery s* that's sold for 8-10€ and more for better screening grades/water. (the police should raid those shops imo
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The farmers 50 ct production is still cheap compared to indoor growing with maybe around 2 kilowatt hours per gram fixed energy costs and a lot of adding other cost factors, upscaling effects are pretty slim here.
Cheaper solution are those big 'hybrid' lighted grow houses (can be seen eg at night landings in amsterdam or reykjavik) that could get even below 1€ total production costs per g (indoor quality)
- yes those asumptions depend on a lot of different factors, but should be close to average imho
If it would be a real normal crop - 30% thc-industry hemp combinations would be harvested with tractors for fiber and rosin, what would cost that? maybe 10 ct / g if it was a bad year...
So, there are limits in production costs, a piece for the shop and then the taxes, those 5$ a gram seems to be the bottom limit for indoor in that case - hmm taxes, damn that's the question why i started this post