I agree but it shows the tide has turned and changes will be quick. BTW I know someone who has a Medical Marijuana prescription in Calif. She says the pharmacies are jacking up the prices to as much as $400/oz while paying farmers around $100. Many farmers are selling it on the side at $150.
That $100 was about the going rate on the user end back in my days. Shits getting expensive! I bet with Big Tobacco behind the Legalize It Lobby the laws will change pretty quickly. Why else would Rick Perry all of a sudden talk of decriminalizing it here in Texas. He has been known to get pushed in a direction by the big lobby money. See HPV vaccine scandal.
With that type of gouging it will do nothing but fuel the cartels by driving up prices. My friends paid $5 for enough to make 3 fat boys or 5 pins back in the late 80's - 92,93.
I heard that names like Acapulco Gold and Maui Wowie were trademarked by big tobacco in the 70's in anticipation of legalization. But I guess you wouldn't want to call your medical weed "Maui Wowie". Probably some pharmaceutical name like "Reefitor".
They have a strain in Colorado called "Charlotte's Web" that parents are rushing to move there and get. It is supposed to be a miracle drug for childhood seizures. Actually the pot is made into an oil first so you don't have a bunch of kids taking hits from the bong.
Whatever happened to names like Skunk. Home grown. Red hair. Censamillion? Not sure about the spelling but this phone pronounced it right.