During the recession when everything gets more expensive, how come drugs are the same price?

Because pot is illegal, market forces cannot work at the price. Not sure when you were born, but I’m an old fuck, and I remember pot in the mid 1970’s was cheap cheap cheap, and shitty cough cough cough. The shit today is 100 times stronger, no? A dime bag in the 1970’s was what, $25?

Disclaimer—I know nothing above personally, my dog gave me the above info—he talks to me all the time….

Market forces can and do work at the price of things which are illegal. If, say, a thing is in demand but there is not much of it, the price will rise as people offer to pay more for the bit that exists.

Having not purchased pot ever, I can’t say that the price has never changed, but it is an assumption that I would question. The drug trade, being as unregulated as it is, is one of the very few examples of a free market that we still have these days.

What did the bird say when it flew over the 1970’s bag of pot?

“Cheep, cheap, cheap”

I’m just saying that for $25 today, I would (hypothetically) be able to purchase the exact same type of pot that I would have paid $25 for 15 years ago. That’s a fact, Jack.

Just remember, just because people try to sell me illegal materials, it doesn’t meant that I buy them.

I’ve always thought pot to be expensive in the States…though I don’t really buy it anymore. I went to Amsterdam once and it was a fraction of the price I would have paid here in the States. And it’s legal in Amsterdam.

I thought a dime bag was $10…maybe its the atown brown around here… i will say though its much harder to come by….atleast for me…..not that I am looking to buy any…...

….So who lives near allentown? (private comment me PLEASE) :-P

@body——I want to live where you live

Yea dime means 10. A dime bag would be $10 here.

Mizuki, I’m in Memphis and the violent crime rate is 4 times the national average. It’s a trade off I guess. I carry a gun (legally) and try to not to get involved with anything even slightly illegal.

The people I know who smoke pot don’t smoke the $25 bags any more. They smoke the $100 bags. They call the $25 bags swag.

I guess a dime bag of the good pot they smoke would be about $25 but you can’t get anyone to show up for such a low number.

IIRC, a dime bag is always going to be ten bucks, but does the quality or quantity of product change? If pot is more expensive, a dime bag would contain less and still cost the same.

I did not realize Memphis was like that. Yeah, SWAG, yeah, that’s the ticket?

So I should ask for “dank” if I want the good stuff?

Right, the whites usually call it dank but in the getto, it’s called ink. Swag is low dollar but it’s so cheap you can roll up blunts and blunts of it.

Laureth, I think sometimes a dime back could actually refer to 1 gram of a substance. If you were buying a dime bag of cocaine or heroin, I think the prices would be different. (I googled this because I didn’t know myself)

Of course no drug users I know mess with such small numbers. I actually haven’t heard of anyone buying or selling a dime bag since high school.

There is so much competition in the dope game. Its not just a few organizations controlling the prices but multitudes of gangs, syndicates, and cartels competing against each other. And there is no tax on illegal drugs. A pack of camels is 4 buck in Tennessee and 6 bucks in Oregon. There is no tariffs or taxes on illegal drugs so that is not an issue. Things like gas, tires etc have little competition. Things that are perishable like food need to be shipped fast and are at the mercy of gas prices and weather.

I’m a certified thousandaire.

@laureth yes, if your paying 10 for not so good weed youll get more than if it was great.

I never buy small amounts. Smallest i ever buy is an eighth, but usually a quarter at a time. I never really understood why people buy small amounts, its so much more expensive

I haven’t bought pot in over twenty years. That is one drug I don’t miss. Makes ya stupid. the preceding statement is a personal opinion and should not be construed as saying that people who do illegal drugs of any kind lack intelligence or have a lower IQ than those people who do not do illegal drugs

Yea I don’t do Paxil because I think it makes you stupid. It might make the quality of life for people who are manic depressive better but personally, I just think it makes you stupid. I still think it’s far less damaging to the mind and body then tobacco and alcohol.

Overuse of pot might make you stupid but so will overuse of caffine. Overuse of alcohol makes you seem like one of the stupidest people on earth.

well i know that the prices here were i live did a qad would cost 30