what does pot cost nowdays?
 

I read an article in the paper today that said the cops found 3,000 plants valued at $13,000,000. Either these plants were HUGE, or pot costs a lot more today than it did when I was a stoner. (Or the media relations representitive for the police department was (gasp!) exagerating)

So I ask you - what does good Northern California green-bud go for these days?

Good question.

I never knew how much it cost way back in the stoner days... I never payed for it.

30-40 1/4 oz for the schwag
100-110 1/4 oz for the good

that is the going rate where i'm at. oh yeah - so I hear : )

c_b

30-40 half ounce of crap, 90-100 half ounce of the best stuff, i have no idea where clues lives but hes getting the short end of the stick :)

$50/3.5 grams

Might be high, but I am.

50 bucks! my god!!! you people are insane, 3.5 where i am would be 30 bucks even, unless you know the dealer, then could be as cheap as you can haggle. man, you guys are nuts. :)

either pay up or go without

no real sense in getting hung up on price

schwag is 40/oz

EDIT: also, i dont buy pot

Pot started costing me so much that i eventually quit buying it and became a professional mooch, but that got old real fast with me and my friends so i just quit all together. I would just rather booze up and riot. Now tha i think about it, I spend a lot more going out to a bar to drink than i would spend to get myself stoned for a few days... Damn it! Time to start rethinking my lifestyle again...

I used other, more dangerous and addictive drugs in lieu of marijuana largely because of the high price of marijuana.

Damm beer is much cheaper and it's leagal!

There's another reason not to smoke pot.

Wowie, I'm glad I don't do pot. Seems pretty darn expensive. One of my friends lights up a whole bunch and always complains about being broke. I used to feel bad for him since he has to work hard to pay his bills but now I don't think I'll give him as much pity.

Course, if you have the money, smoke if ya got 'em. :D

i concur, the stuff i get goes for $60 (american) an 8th, but i get ounces for $350. it always makes me think of christmas. the red, green, and white.

i always make sure i get the best stuff my guys can find

If you're actually in southern California, your supply is better and cheaper than in other areas where it's either imported long distances or grown hydroponically in warehouses or large, rented homes. Where I am, central coast college town, it's so easy to get marijuana, from so many people, that I've got to believe competition has kept the price lower than, other areas. Not that I've ever bought any here, or anywhere in the last 20 years. But we have illegals growing marijuana on covert plots up in the mountains for the Mexican Mafia, we've got the indoor hydroponics operations also, and a good many people grow their own in closets or the back yard and give away the extra. Yes, there's a lot of demand, but there's also a lot of supply.

Of course, back in the antediluvial days when I smoked, a lid (1 oz) cost ten bucks. But a) if you compensate for inflation, that's more like 40 or 50 bucks, and b) it was mostly low-grade, imported from Mexico. Suitable for high school students, which we were. But the potency of marijuana has really been enhanced by the growers of the last few decades. The last joint I took a few puffs off, maybe 10 years ago, made the whole world flicker, like the sun was strobing on and off. Definitely not your father's marijuana.

All that said, I do consider marijuana a waste of time. Although I do know folks who use it to fight side-effects of chemo, glaucoma, and certain other conditions, and I believe that, if it works for them, they should be able to get it without risking problems with the law.

Don't know, don't smoke.

$40 for 3.5g, pretty good stuff

that lasts me about 2 weeks

Yeah, dont smoke, dont want to, never will. I didnt realize how expensive that stuff is. Man. Id rather keep my money. Thats just me though. :)

depends:
where u are
who you buy it from <- U WILL get fucked if u r dumb!
quality of weed.

the stuff i got in philly, 20$ bags were like a gram and a lil bit, like 40 per 1/8oz. these were standard prices that the guy sold it but they would always hook me up with more. this was goood weed. the only time anyone had shwag was 15$ for like an eighth

it really depends who you buy it from cause those guys sold it to another guy selling it to different ppl at school and they would pay more for the same stuff!

it really all depends on all of that, cause there were times when there was a decent flow and it was cheep for the same stuff.

also depends on how u smoke it / what you smoke it out of.

if all that is around is semi decent shawg (yea it sucks but still) and smoke it in blunts, you will get stoned. but if you have lots of good weed smoke it out of blunts and you will be fucked the hell up :)

Holy Shit. You guys pay alot for weed. Either weed is way more expensive on the coast or you are getting ripped off. I've never paid more then 100 dollars for an ounce. Normally less then that. Last time I bought any I paid about 60 dollars an ounce. Now of course I also buy alot at a time (atleast a couple ounces) which keeps the cost down and I am also personal friends with several of the largest dealers in my state. That helps too.

im not getting ripped off. i have better weed than snoop dogg himself. of course there are no seeds and no stems. just really dense bud covered in red hairs and caked in crystals. i don't need more than 1 hit to get totally annihilated.

I pay $10/gram for stuff that's usually really good. And that's Canadian funds.

Ok a few questions:

:How many average doobies do you get from say, a half an ounce?

:"shwags"??

(no, I don't smoke)

Whenever you hear about a drug bust's value, the police break it down to street value. For example, if a gram was to cost $10 and they confiscated 28 grams (an ounce) they would say it was $280 worth of marijuana, when in actuality (is that even a word or is it spelled wrong?) chances are it would have been sold as a whole (bulk) for much much less like $100.

Also the plants weigh a lot more than what the actual end harvest would be. A plant that weighs 10 lbs can be trimmed of all the useless (I know I know, hemp isn't useless) parts and weigh considerably less. It also needs to be cured (or dried out for lack of a better term) which also decreases the weight. They don't take any of this into consideration and just weigh the plants and break it down to gram (or lowest quantity usually sold) values, or they just count the plants and estimate the weight per plant and break that amount down.
Its funny how the DEA and/or police try to make themselves sound like they found warehouses full of drugs when it was probably just a half acre garden.

That all depends on how big you want the joint to be. I've pencil packed an exact half ounce into a phillies blunt (cigar that is hollowed out and filled with pot) before. I've also had rolled 10 joints out of a half ounce too. It all varies.

Schwag is just commercial pot. It is grown outdoors and usually contains seeds, it isn't as potent as the strands that most people seem to smoke these days. The stuff you see in High Times magazine and that they have in Amsterdam is refered to as "Kind". That is the rockstar shit.

Man, I wish I could still smoke..:( I wish my mind didn't play tricks on me, that I fall for everytime.

Well, I usually roll 2 joints per gram. Half ounce is 14 grams, so that's 28 joints/half ounce :D

Those are some pinners!! You are probably smoking more paper than weed.

No way man! If I split a gram in 2 joints, they're just a little bit smaller than a cig. More than enough to get 2 of us high.

$50 / 1/8 of Dank here and it is pretty good but I have seen so much better.

Swallow 2 Percacet(?) before a couple bong loads, though, and you are fucked for 10-12 hours no matter what quality, and pain killers are real easy to find here.

In the next few months I should be able to get some real nice stuff though.

shwag, dirt, crap... bad weed.... poor quality

just by looking at the weed u can usually tell how healthy the plant was, smoking weed from an unhealthy plant is like eating bad fruit. both from plants, its very similar.

dirt weed is like brown and is usually mostly dirt and not a lot of weed. shwag is usually just bad weed thats all dried out or full of sticks and stems.

Meh, while I don't smoke of the quality you are mentioning its not low quality crap either. I HAVE smoked some real high quality weed before and I would rate what I mentioned above as higher middle grade. Once I get a better job then maybe I can smoke the real good stuff.

being from B.C. the average price for an ounce is $160.00

half ounce $80.00

quarter ounce $40.00

and an eighth of an ounce is $20.00

you guys are gettin' ripped off if you pay more than that.

these are in Canadian dollars too eh.

Ah, such memories. My first high was on hash... most excellent.

no it's not.


I used to charge $20 for a twamp, sometimes do 1/8ths for 40-60 and would buy O's for 300-350.

http://i.walmart.com/i/p/00/01/60/17...85_500X500.jpg

$67.24 at Wal-Mart.com

:D

This thread got me to thinking about Cheech and Chongs Wedding Album..LMFAO


Remember the skit Mr.Stadanko??


Claaaasssss come to order please...today we have a special guest....and that guest is Mr.Stadanko.......and Mr.Stadanko is a narcotics officer


(you hear a chair scrapping across the floor)

Billy where are you going??

Uhhh....I gotta go to the can sister

Now Billy you sit down.and whatever you have in your mouth......you swallow it immediatley

Uhhh...ok sister

(voice in background) hey billy...swallow these too:D


Then Mr. Stadanko goes on about the evils of Pot.....and talks about different names people call it, but the best part is when he talks about rewards for turning poeple in and someone stands up and asks about the rewards and then says "Alright then.....I want to turn Billy in"

What....hey man!!

Yea man....you sold me that shit awhile back ago that wouldn't get a fly high.


Then all hell breaks loose

Hell.....I'm downloading it now on Kazaa:D

well i dont smoke weed... but that bust was less than an hour away from where i am right now... at my parents house...

When I harvested my latest plant I got 1 1/2 ounces from it. If I'd sold it at local rates I would have got £100 ($160us)

I would need 81,250 plants to make $13,000,000.

By my reckoning I would also need almost two acres of land to grow 81,250 plants.

20/per gram, 50/eighth, 300/ounce, 1100/qp 3200/lb... thats regular price, of course dealer prices are a lot lower. you can roll 1 fat blunt per a gram or you can roll 3 pinners per a gram. blunt = weed rolled in cigar paper, making it burn longer, better and the bud resinates. (my personal choice) pinners = as the name implies, skinngy joints rolled in zig zags/cigarette paper/bible paper

meant skinny in previous post.. so i assume schwag is equivalent to what us americans call bammer/stress?

Nice one Roadrage!

10 'BIG BUD'seeds from a shop in Amsterdam £2.00($3.00)
Four months later our first harvest.
Never had to buy any since. Every year new crop getting stronger and stronger.
God I love gardening.

I have never paid for droogs.

My friends are generous.

"you can roll 1 fat blunt per a gram or you can roll 3 pinners per a gram."

I don't know what you consider a fat blunt, but a gram isn't enough for a fat one.

And "schwag" is an American term. I live in America, and we (in Northern VA) have been calling "sess" or "bama" weed schwag since I started smoking back in 1990.


p.s. I just realized that the tone in my posts, if read, sound like "I know more about pot than you" or "I'm a bigger pothead than you." but it isn't meant to come off that way....hell, I rarely smoke these days as it is.

I can only talk for my locality:

£25 for 1/8th
£40-45ish for 1/4
£60 for half ounce
£100-120 for an ounce

I've never bought anything more than an ounce at one time, so anything higher I'm not sure of the price.

Wow, what a great thread.

The last dope I bought was the summer of 1976. Oddly enough, a dime bag cost $10 and a nickel bag cost $5 back then.

Strange, huh?

Varies according to local suppy- Near Gainesville, FL (GO GATORS!)Regs 1/2 oz $50-60
Regs 1 oz $100-130
Hydroponic sensamilla $350 per oz for the best that can be had round here.

All this is reminding me how much I need to take a trip up to Amsterdam one of these days.

Damn, you guys are getting ripped off. I don't smoke, I don't buy, I don't sell, but I know plenty of people who do. Skunk goes for 2 bucks a gram, decent stuff goes for 5, and a friend of mine managed an insane G13 plant that went for 400-100/oz depending on who was buying.

5 dollars for one gram is a rip-off, mate.

Wow, I can't believe some of you guysare getting it $5/gram for decent stuff. Thankfully in 3 months time I won't need t worry about buying it anymore.

BTW, anybody interested in growing check out www.overgrow.com

I'm sure someone mentioned this already, but the police include the weight of the trunk and roots. That's why the prices on seizures are high.

While I was in high school and college in Texas, $100 per oz was a reasonable price. I knew someone who sold an oz for $50 to people he hung out with regularly. The quality seemed to have a lot more to do with who the source was than what the price was.

Even serious pot smokers who share occasionally only smoke an ounce a month, from what I've seen. If you have a decent job and earn 2k/month or more, that's really cheap. The problem is that some pot smokers don't work hard or even show up to work each day.

As far as what people in the US call low quality marijuana, I've always heard shwag.

AU$90 for 1/4 of bud

seems like thats what I hear around here too

It's free if you grow it.
I won't have to be paying anything now that the crop is in.
pot pics...
1 pound 4 ounces worth...

I only ever buy weed by the 1/4 and i pay 70 dollars for it. It use to be 60 dollars, But everyone seems to be jackin thier prices up around here.

1 gram = $20
half eight = $50

so cal

i paid 165 for 1 qz sunday

I hang out with a few smokers of the herb. Around the DC area the going rate is:

$50 1/8 oz.
$100 1/4 oz.
$350 1 oz.

All kind bud. I can't quote you on the swagg 'cause these boys only smoke the chronic....

$10/gram seems to be pretty much the standard here. If you go downtown, the kids'll sell you a bag that might be half a gram if you're lucky for that price, I don't know how they stay in business.
The most I've ever paid for an oz. was $210 (Canadian), and it was awfully good. I've gotten really good outdoor for as little $110/oz and can usually find crazy indoor for $170-$180.
I tried growing a large-ish batch with an old roommate once, 15-20 plants, it didn't turn out too well, I think if I tried it again, it would only be with one or two.

$13,000,000? That must've been some good shit. Around here, an 8th of hydro is $50. A gram of hydro is $20. An 8th of some nice mids is $20-25, depending on how good it is.

20 bucks for a gram? Holy shit...That's expensive

Everyone and their brother grows pot around here, so prices are pretty cheap.

I haven't smoked in 2 years and I hardly ever paid for it (I was my dealer's boss at work; a little consideration = nearly free pot)

anyway, when we paid it was about $35-40 for a 1/2 oz. and never more than $85 for the full. This stuff was mostly low to middle of the road pot. You paid more for the "better" stuff.

i pay 40 bucks for an 8th, i've never bought anythingmore that that

hmm its about 50 an 8th here but thats for the stuff that will compete with and half the time beat the stuff in amsterdam. hell about 2 years or so ago my dad was getting a strain of the canibus cup winner for 40 an 8th. good times. oh and leaf is free and i dont ever deal with anything that isnt top of the line. its just great when you get someone from out of town here and there ask how much weed is then you tell em 50 an 8th and they kinda squinch (is that a word) but decide to go along with it. then after actually seeing what there getting and smoking a bowl decided that they just smoked the best stuff they have ever seen and that was the best 50 they ever spent. and it wasnt even the best i have seen ;)

I wish I could find marijuana leafs for free around here, It's so simple to make oil...People would buy a fiver of oil for about 80 bucks. What you need to make it Costs next to nothing, If you can get the leafs free or very cheap...Then your laughin.

well personally i think drugs are farking stupid. but if you are really into the stuff, u might as well move Here to Vancouver BC, Canada, the stuff practically grows on trees

Man, gotta love those Gainsville people. I live near orlando, Fl, which is only 2 hours from there. That town has so much pot in it, you get a buzz crossing the city limits, it's crazy.

Recently the prices have been shitty, but usually it's just like above-

a "dime" (tenth of an ounce, enough for a joint, MAYBE 2) is $10, a "quarter" (quarter of an ounce) is $25 (20 if you get a deal), a half-ounce is $50, and an "O" (ounce) is $80 - $100, depending on who you get it from- some people will sell you 50 for half but stick you for 100 for an O, and some guys who are sellin it just to sell it will let you take an O off their hands for only $80, just for buying in quantity.

What I'm describing isn't "shake" (loose, crumbly, dried stuff), it's quite decent- known as "regs".

1/8 ounce of "crip" (the really good stuff) will run you about $40, and a quarter of crip will go for $80-100, depending on how good it is, and exactly how quality the weight is... although with crip you almost always get nothing but actual smokable bud in the whole weight of the thing.

A fwe peple mentioned hydro... it's hard for me to find here... i've had the opportunity a few times but only the cash once... best fuckin money i've ever spent... my mouth waters thinking about it. At the time, I was smoking fairly regularly, but that shit put me on my ASS when I SHARED ONE BOWL of it with my buddy, who sold it to me. Granted it was a pretty good size bowl, but not abnormally big. He was/is a daily smoker, and it knocked him on HIS ass, too. That shit was crazy. I was in such a happy place for a while there. Ah, nostalgia...

Oh, and I love all the people adding that they don't buy or smoke at the end. lol

I buy it. I smoke it. I love it. Peace.

Oh, and I just thought I'd add, for all the "I don't understand why you do that to yourself" and "drugs are stupid" crowd- not everyone smokes just to feel high.

For me personally, I usually smoke to help my anxiety. I've been plagued with horrible anxiety attacks since I was as young as I can remember. They last for days, sometimes a whole week or two. If you've ever experienced anxiety, you know what it's like... but have you ever had it for 2 weeks, where you go to bed with it and it's there in the morning waiting for you when you wake up? I've been on every anti-anxiety medication available over the course of my life, and the only ones that work (and they BARELY work, I might add) make me feel so totally disconnected from myself and reality i'm barely functional, like a vegetable.

If I smoke and get high, the anxiety goes away, and stays away, even after the high is gone. Can you put your judgements on that? On my happy daily life? Just a point to ponder, I'm not trying to preach.

This is only for the dank:

About 50 an 1/8 here where i live. 75 for a quarter, from a friend. My way of doing it: Buy a zip for 300, sell 3/4 of it and you end up with a free 1/4. Shrug.

It really all depends the dealer. I've gotten a 20 from one guy that was easily worth 50 somewhere else.

Just bought an oz of hydro for 250 where I live. Its a decent deal, but my cousin gets it cheaper (sumhow manages to get fat bags, and make money at the same time... without having to touch the stuff in the transaction), and will prolly float my habit while I start crunching for money. Gotta love family.

I should add that most people around me buy by the 1/8th, and pay $40 per 1/8th.

Also, the high off hydro is soooo much better. Its like... You are completly happy, not just stoned. Good stuff. But, when you smoke almost exclusivly hydro... Everything else tastes like hell.

Agreed, the high off hydro is just a good high and it's so much smoother.

bout £70-100 a ounce here ,
england that is, more fires prices seem bout right, get some good stuff for 100 pounds sterling

Man, there's enough wasted money in this thread to pay for my college!

-Lasereth

i can get O for like $30-$40 depending on the season it is usually because of all of the drugs that pass through here S. TX that is. reefer is real cheap here should they raise the prices any most people would just try something else with the same price.

I live in Southern Va, and can get a Ounce of Schwag for about 50 bucks.. It's all I can really afford.

There's some stuff going around down here called "Blueberry Conch" that goes for about 150 bucks for a Quarter. Supposed to be excellent stuff, but I haven't tried any.. too much for my meek paycheck.

I wouldn't pay 150 bucks for a quarter...No matter how good it is.

$20- gram of the kind variety
$60- 1/8th of the kind variety
$120- 1/4 of hte kind variety
$400- an ounce of the kind

Schwag
5- gram
10- 1/8th
20- 1/4
30- 1/2
50- ounce

Now it varies depending on who you know and how well, but in Austin that is the basic price for almost all bud ive seen.