Is the Los Angeles cannabis industry in crisis?
Is the Los Angeles cannabis industry in crisis?
Los Angeles legal cannabis business owners say they’re struggling. Why? LAist correspondent Jordan Rynning explains.
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The lies them pot shop’s make bank
I feel no sympathy the legal shops want to charge you 90 bucks for a eighth
Common Sense. Get rid of one law, make MJ Legal… Don’t make 100 more laws about it, and extra taxes on it..
Blame all the folks that wanted it to be legal. Look at you now. Complaining. Should have stayed with prop 215 and that’s it. No need for everyone to have access to it.
It’s not rocket science…… taxes!!!! Why do you think CA and CO and other Dem states approved it ???? To get money!!!!
And don’t play the race card!!! Every race smokes it!!!!
LA is the next Detroit. Never solve a deficit just keep spending and then beg the federal government to bail them out. The city is the joke of the nation at this point- can’t even run a weed industry
It’s expensive to pay the state to operate
Because this government always wants a bigger piece of the pie for doing absolutely nothing.
1. its surprising 😂
2. Lotta consumption ..RITE 😅
3. WOW 😑
4. oohhh 😮 ‼️
5. mmmmhhh 🤔
6. 🤫😁‼️
All about quality
Because California sucks the life out of anyone who wants a small business. Biggest economy my A$$!
Make it completely legal and let market decide how to proceed and use it.
High prices and TAXES…. Yea I’ll pass🤷🏾♂️
Support your local organic grower, not a dispensary with teenaged “budtenders”
The government that burned 10,000 homes to the ground is busy harassing marijuana dealers.
The market flooded and the price came down. The government needs to lower taxes.
Was the cops robbing a place …. That didn’t look legal breaking into an ATM
first of all ……bro needs to sort out his hair !!!😂wtf is going on with the dangly bit dude lmao!!!
Legal weed is like buying candy at the movies
The white market guys just aren’t backfiring enough packs.
The government created is own monopoly with law enforcement who have been doing what they’ve been arresting the regular man for doing for over 20 years in California.
That guy looks like he fighting a medicinal marijuana EDIBLE 😂😂
It’s the greed of the shareholders from these giant multi state cannabis companies. They give nothing to the culture and destroy brands like they are king makers.
There’s more illegal shops than legal ones. 😂
Everything in LA is in crisis! Why not weed too?
Bring back the $7/gram of high quality. The market was so much better 7-8 years ago.
It takes a LOT of tax money to pay for all the support of all the homeless and illegal aliens that flock into California for the benefits.
Tax and regulations.
Answer to the first question, why are the legit businesses flailing why the "illegal" ones are prospering?
Simple Answer: Taxes. Bigger Answer: Freaking TAXES!
A lot of these legal shops are corrupt and don’t pay workers fairly. In general, the consumer is getting the short end of the stick.
Do legal shops, really want to start a war with the street dealer it’s not a crisis. It’s a price war, keeping up with the competition.
Now dope is in crisis bo ho hodly do
NJ taxes. State sales tax and municipal cannabis tax. That’s it.
Typical California business as usual.
its a joke man… they just want to liquidate the small guy for bigger profits… look at glass house hiring 350+ illegal immigrants and 14 of them children under 18 …… under investor money on the stock market, they are protecting their own intrests by letting this continue and not support these people who actually are trying to follow the law… what a disgrace
A free 8th should be handed out every friday provided by the city, county, state and give them selves a tax break for growing it.
Saturated and high taxes
The 🇨🇳🔌 has the illegal market on 🔒‼️
Stop smoking it. It’s bad for you what happened to MCGruff 😢
How about they eliminate half those taxes!
Keep it illegal.
Her news anchor voice is hilarious.
80$ tax is diabolical
And the flower isn’t on sale
More regulations is awesome
grow your own if you can 🎉
That’s funny alcohol doesn’t have a 40% tax??
Dispensary packs are garbage just coming from somebody who’s in Cali and been going to the dispensaries since before it was recreational what we call top shelf in packs nowadays would be mids that most people would skip over just 10 years ago the quality is down because top shelf is another word for mid shelf now the exotic calipacks get shipped out or they’re $85 for 1/8 lol the legal industry is trash literally a bunch of people who take advantage of stoners with the old bait and switch
Equity programs to benefit black and brown businesses owners🤔 sounds racist
No one wants that prepackaged, old, dry bud that has been sitting for 5 months. It sits around for 6 month and you throw another $30 worth of tax on it. Meanwhile, the bud we get on the black market is of better quality freshness and is cheaper.
everyone thought legal weed would be awesome…this is just the start of the downfall.
Legal shops are done bye bye. Justin Timberlake style 😂
What if the government came in and told you that you have to follow regulations to grow cherry tomatoes in your backyard? What if they regulated all aspects of growing stuff from seeds in our backyards? Maybe if they stop looking at it as an “Industry “ . Ridiculous