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orb_king t1_j98fp6e wrote

I’m happy to get dispensaries. Current price and selection is unbelievably bad right now. You can buy a 1g cart in Manhattan for $35, or you can buy a 500mg cart at Rise in Elizabeth for $65… it’s gonna take some serious work to get these prices under control. I made one purchase at an NJ dispensary for the sentimental value, but that’s gonna be it for me until the prices drop below double, from their current quadruple…

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Jeff-Van-Gundy t1_j996xjd wrote

I work in nyc but I don’t trust any of those smoke shop dispensaries and def none of the trucks. I’ve had some of the worst bud in my life from those places, I’m not rolling the dice on their carts. I stopped buying carts from all gray market sources a while ago just to be safe. I haven’t been to the legit nyc dispensaries yet but I heard they are charging insane prices.

Sometimes the carts go on sale. I got a 1 g of Gary Payton for $70 from apothecarium in Lodi last month.

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Treethan__ OP t1_j9fd3x2 wrote

Yeah the housing works spot sells Jaunty carts for 55. They are actually pretty good! I like the Jack herer ones

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Jeff-Van-Gundy t1_j9firbb wrote

WTF what is everyone on the NYC sub bitching about? That's a damn good price for a legit cart. I was with my friend from Chicago last night and she pays 150 for 1g carts out there

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Treethan__ OP t1_j9fwbfq wrote

Jaunty isn’t the best but like it’s still fantastic for price and not being gray market. Plus they like bitching because it’s all sun grown local and they feel like the industry is being locked off via corruption and politics. While it has some merits it’s turned into bashing anything that’s legal to attempt to basically push their narrative. While it definitely has merit I do think the hate is too intense and targeted at the wrong groups. The hate should be directed at the commissions not the dispensaries and growers

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ButACake t1_j9ae4wl wrote

The first wave of new NJ dispensaries will all be carrying the same “over priced” products as the current dispensaries ….. until LOCAL CULTIVATORS & MANUFACTURERS get licensed.

Dispensaries are at the bottom of the supply chain, prices don’t get set there

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orb_king t1_j9ae8le wrote

Costs don’t get set there, but prices do.

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ButACake t1_j9farvl wrote

They kinda don’t tho 🫣😬

Cultivator sells to processor for $5 Processor sells to retailer for $10 Retail sells to customer for $20 -$25

Easy numbers for the sake of showing how it generally works for us in the supply chain

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njmids t1_j9b4cck wrote

All product on the market is made by “local cultivators and manufacturers”. There just isn’t enough of them yet.

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ButACake t1_j9d7x7x wrote

“Local” lol

Ascend wellness - Massachusetts Curaleaf - Massachusetts Trulieve - Florida Zen leaf - Nevada Columbia care - New York

….. I can keep going 🙃 but I think you’ll get the point.

Medical side all we have is Hillview Med, outside of that … Jersey has no licensed LOCAL cultivators or manufacturers yet

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njmids t1_j9da9b3 wrote

They all have NJ cultivation locations that employee NJ residents. Not sure what your definition of “local” is.

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ButACake t1_j9f9o7z wrote

It’s that way now because each state has to operate on its own. The second federal legalization comes, those companies are packing up and certainly not taking their NJ employees with them. Long term & over all = we need NJ born & bred cannabis businesses.

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idkinfo t1_j9ak2jq wrote

Congrats on your manufacturing license ❤️ the dispos suck!!!!!!!!

The quality and the price suck. It’s a nice visual experience when entering some have hood staff but going to the dispo is a last minute resort.

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ScumbagMacbeth t1_j9g2hrf wrote

I was in MA yesterday and decided to stop into a dispensary. They had five times as many different products as my favorite NJ dispensary, and everything was about 2/3 of the price.

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