So let those numbskulls pay higher property taxes then, and get reamed some other way to pay for Big Bertha.

legalize it and tax the hell out of it.

Greed wins again.

What other products or services are taxed that much?

It sounds like they don't want it to work.

If taxes are too high, they won't be able to end black markets.

There must be an optimum tax price-point. I'm sure some economist could come up with a chart.

The Washington initiative is too tight, anyway. Live and learn.

60 bucks for an ounce at the shop that just opened in my (colorado) city.

It started to settle back down and then there was a price crash when the feds started closing many of the shops. I wouldn't expect the prices to be entirely stable until the legal ground is firmer, right now a federal election (or just a whim) could really change the legal landscape and thus the costs of operating a dispensary.

As a side note, reading serious news articles in the regular paper about the plight of the pot farmer was kind of surreal.

Are you sure it's not for a 1/4? That's what the regular prices are.

Colorado MMJ market: (Note: I have never stepped into a legal marijuana store and don't plan to anytime soon)

1/8: $25-30

1/4: $50-60

1/2: $80-100

1 ounce: $150-200

2 ounces: $225-250

and that doesn't include taxes. mmj prices are much lower.

i can get a quarter for 65.

$10 - $12 dollars a gram here in MT for MMJ.

jobs in other sectors of the economy.

Howsabout the Tide Underground?

The exception does not prove the rule.

Marijuana is legal so people don't care who they buy it from, they will continue to buy it from Mexican Cartels on the black market because it's cheaper than walking into a store to buy it and pay ridiculous fees. All Washington is doing is making the Cartels a ton of money, when they could be making citizens of Washington a lot of money and getting a nice kickback in a reasonable tax to the state.

And the tax is not curbing demand, it's curbing the demand of paying a tax, people are still buying weed like they always were. They are just buying it on the black market.

25% tax on pot is more than reasonable. Washington fails to realize that and black market pot continues to operate in Washington.

Colorado does not have that problem, as 25% tax on legal pot is a reasonable number. Since we're making hands over fist on these legal pot, there's a very good chance it'll be lowered to about 15% tax and still make hands over fist.

As an MMJ red card holder, I do not have to pay those legal marijuana taxes. And I do have my reasons to be a red card holder.

compared to a few drinks of good booze? I realize that not everyone can make booze and people that can grow pot can grow it, but compared to, say, a fifth of quality liquor how does the price stack up towards getting high?

I don't smoke, so I don't know - I just thought it would be a cost margin thing. Do you need a significant amount of pot to equal booze?

if you have not experienced pot before.....

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I have a high tolerance, so I need to smoke a lot more to get the high, but since I started smoking once a day, my tolerance went down...

And they give give huge tax credits and exceptions to big business. Therefore our sin taxes are always outrageous. Very regressive tax structure.

This will ensure pot sales stay underground. That's for sure.

Washington likes poor people, there'd be no tax revenue without them.

All the records of online cigarette sellers and hit up all the buyers from inside WA state for thousands in unpaid cigarette taxes? I do. Some people owed over $10 grand in taxes.