New Jersey Medical Marijuana Law Has Pot Dealers Worried

nydailynews.com:

New Jersey's medical marijuana law is a looming cloud for New York pot dealers who worry that profits are about to go up in smoke.

"It's going to cut a lot of the bridge-and-tunnel customers," one pot dealer told the Daily News. "I'm just trying to lock down who I have in the city. I have to stay on the grind."

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Comments

[Citizen54]

06:13 PM on 01/21/2010

Good. The rip-off dealers of NY need some competition. Maybe this will force them to lower prices.... and actually return people's phone calls.

It's too bad NY is run by puritanical rubes. If Gov Patterson had any sense, he'd push for legalization, sales, and taxation. Solve the state's severe budget woes in a few months. But nooooooo.... he'd rather watch the schools and the safety nets tank.

Why can't Bloomberg declare cannabis legal in the city?

[Greybeard53]

10:02 AM on 01/21/2010

from "A Child's Garden of Grass". Jack Margolis and Richard Clorfene, Contact Books, 1969

the entirety of Chapter 4

"Chapter 4: The Dangers of Marijuana

Getting busted."

We got some things wrong in the 60's, but this has stood the test of time!

[anthonytaurus]

10:41 PM on 01/20/2010

NJ's medi-marijuana laws are so strict that it leaves the black market securely in place. That's the marijuana compromise. Make it medical so the black market still exists so cops have something to do.

Why do you think that in every marijuana debate, there's some law enforcement goon sitting there (as opposed to doctors/researchers) with little to no facts and only fear mongering as their main tactic? They're there to protect their jobs. Marijuana legalization = no more easy arrests. When it comes to drugs, they'll have to actually do hard work, fight heroin and crack addicts who aren't interested in going to sleep and/or eating. The cops are scared of marijuana legalization because then they'll actually have to work for their paychecks.

Don't fear common street dealers. The cops have to protect your jobs if they intend to protect their own. It's mutually beneficial. Without you, they're need is severely diminished.

[fumes]

07:38 PM on 01/20/2010

BEWARE OF CANNABIS!!!

it makes literal people feel all giddy and ''out of control''..

and it makes everyone else happy and hungry for chocolate..

oh and cheetos.. and barbecued shrimp and lobster..

did i mention chocolate?

[RevRayGreen]

06:47 PM on 01/20/2010

more fear and smear.

[MyMindSpray]

05:59 PM on 01/20/2010

In regards to the article, GOOD, I hope NY becomes the 15th state. It's sad we had to lose to JERSEY on getting medical cannabis.

Hopefully we will beat them in terms of re-legalizing it.

This bowl's for Jersey and the very very short time I spent living there. You did something right!

[Attikai]

02:55 PM on 01/20/2010

Exactly why they should legalize all drugs everywhere. Take the crime out of the equation.

[elbzee]

04:15 PM on 01/20/2010

Bingo! Best Gddamned reason to legalize!

[newtom]

02:54 PM on 01/20/2010

Isn't this precisely the point of legalizing (whether for medicinal purposes or general legalization) marijuana in the first place? If it's no longer illegal, why would anyone want to take the risk of buying from an illegal street dealer? The only contact most people have with the "criminal element" is to purchase pot. Once there are legal outles from which to purchase -- with the added benefit of consistent quality -- why would anyone want to buy any other way.

If street dealers want to get in on the system, let them register as regulated sellers and work out the details on the up and up. No more street dealers is a perfect reason to legalize.

[Pleiadian]

03:18 PM on 01/20/2010

exactly

[IMissAmerica]

04:46 PM on 01/20/2010

Just because someone sells weed does not make them a criminal. It may be against the laws of this land, but it is not against the laws of nature.

[anthonytaurus]

04:50 AM on 01/21/2010

"Also, the dispensaries are gouging the rich by charging higher prices than the dealers."

I mean gouging the ill.

To further clarify, NYC dealers sell an 1/8th of marijuana for $50. My friends from Cali and Texas that moved here will tell you those prices are high. The dispensaries in California, as you can see in the picture, charge $55. And that's supposed to be cheap.

The growers, some who I know, are getting burned by the dispensaries as well. Many have opted to go back to black market dealing because they can make more money. Many users are going back to the street dealers as well because the prices are better. The only people that go to the dispensaries are those who don't know any dealers or want a specific strain at the moment.

The best system is the system that legalizes.

[lorgain76]

02:47 PM on 01/20/2010

Its an interesting concept that legalizing it helps generate revenue and puts illegal operations out of business. I hope to see this trend continue.

[sparky73]

01:52 PM on 01/20/2010

its a shame the drug dealers with all of the guns and violence are being hurt be legal sales. A real shame. They need to lobby congress

[newtom]

02:56 PM on 01/20/2010

That would POT-PAC, right?

[fumes]

03:53 PM on 01/20/2010

lol

[angryliberal]

08:11 PM on 01/20/2010

Yeah, they should lobby congress to keep pot illegal, the way that pimps lobby congress to keep prostitution illegal.

[pakaal]

01:35 PM on 01/20/2010

With prices what they are, I don't have much sympathy for pot dealers. Not to mention if it is legalized they already have the infrastructure to sell, and would no longer have to worry about being arrested.

[progressivegreg]

01:28 PM on 01/20/2010

Here in Michigan we passed a medical marijuana law a year or so ago and everything has been going pretty smoothly, UNTIL YESTERDAY! The politicians in Lansing (our state capital) are now going to try to rewrite the LAW that we passed with an over 60% majority. The stuff the locals are growing is great, it tastes good, works well for pain and Surprise, Surprise the world didn't end and crime didn't take over, but you know how politicians are if it's working let's tamper with it and find ways to put people in jail.

[fumes]

03:56 PM on 01/20/2010

BigPrison is hurting..

let's pass the hat for the prison industry!

wait.. that can't be right..

[Citizen54]

06:16 PM on 01/21/2010

The attorney general of Massachusetts tried the same thing: overturning the will of the people, who voted to decriminalize. You might have heard that this week she got her butt whooped running for the US Senate.

[oxygen]

10:13 PM on 01/25/2010

and by keeping ted kennedy away from these possibly very valuable medicines, helped accelerate his death BUT be sad not for martha she has returned to her other government job, creating problems of which she will have a lifetime of opportunity as a government worker to "fix"

[autotune]

12:51 PM on 01/20/2010

My weed dealer has a legitimate business with illegal sales by appointment only...As an underground economy overall the money's big but since I would never go through the hassle of NJ for cheaper product, I don't think the NYC pot dealers have much to worry about...If it was legal, I'd grow it in my garden along with the tomatoes and cucumbers or maybe inside with a grow light just for the fun of it all and that in the end might hurt some dealer's sales.

[anthonytaurus]

03:32 AM on 01/22/2010

I've been growing my own indoor since 07. icmag.com my friend. Start there. Go to Barnes & Noble and pick up Marijuana Horticultue by Jorge Cervantes as well.

[DoctorWhoDat]

12:13 AM on 01/26/2010

Thank you for your Public Service announcement. May you have a bountiful crop.

[edwcorey]

12:47 PM on 01/20/2010

In 100 years, sensible people will look back on drug criminalization as insane. A few decades ago, John Stossel had a 20/20 show on marijuana where doctors stated that arresting cannabis users was equivalent to hunting witches in Salem. He also mentioned the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Marihuana_and_Drug_Abuse

According to the book "Smoke and Mirrors," one of the findings was that smoking pot decreased crime. Of course, that's anathema to GDP, corporate prisons, the corrections officers union and the police unions. They all like crime, especially the petty kind where convictions fill the prisons and pad resumes.

[Luna C666]

05:56 PM on 01/20/2010

They definitely prefer petty criminals to violent criminals, if the only crimes that were enforced were violent crimes we would have to pay police officers much more, as it is they get to bust teenage potheads that don't fight back all day, they can go to work relatively sure the most action they are going to see on most days is a adolescent delinquent crying and squirming for freedom..
If they got shot at regularly because the non-violent offenders were off-radar there would be much less incentive for people to be cops or prison guards.

Being a pet-trainer is much easier if you get to pick and choose only the most gentle-temperament of dogs to train to get results to flaunt, but isn't it more important to train a dog that bites than one that won't lie down?
Better targeting rapists/murderers/assailants/burglars would benefit society much better than ingesting troubled youth into the violence of the criminal justice system at an early age because of non-violent drug possession.

[RevRayGreen]

11:08 AM on 01/20/2010

only worry of a pot dealer is arrest, or having bad/no product.