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    Man accused of selling U.S. marijuana in Mexico

    Man accused of selling U.S. marijuana in Mexico

    Daniel Borunda, El Paso Times8:24 p.m. MST February 2, 2016


    (Photo: Courtesy Chihuahua state police)

    A man was arrested after being accused of selling U.S. marijuana in Chihuahua City, officials said.

    Chihuahua state police arrested a man who identified himself as Pipper Daniel Valdez Chavez, 27, during an undercover investigation Thursday after Valdez was allegedly found with 12 small bags of marijuana, police officials said. Valdez is accused of being a neighborhood marijuana dealer.


    A state police news release states Valdez was allegedly selling a high-grade marijuana named "Lemon Krush," which could be a misspelling of "Lemon Kush," a strain of marijuana with a citrus scent.


    Police officials said that Valdez allegedly told investigators that the marijuana was specially ordered from the United States and was shipped in packages to Mexico City, where it was then distributed to other parts of Mexico. A gram of the marijuana sold for 300 pesos each, or about $16, police said.

    http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/new...xico/79730898/

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    I'm not sure this story makes much sense, but then again I'm not familiar with the price marijuana. Is $16 the normal price here in the United States? If it sells for more here, who in their right mind would ship it to Mexico? Seems to me they would have plenty of the drug in Mexico and at cheaper price than can be purchased in the U.S. This story just doesn't make much sense from a business standpoint. I'm sure they have citrus in Mexico.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
    I'm not sure this story makes much sense, but then again I'm not familiar with the price marijuana. Is $16 the normal price here in the United States? If it sells for more here, who in their right mind would ship it to Mexico? Seems to me they would have plenty of the drug in Mexico and at cheaper price than can be purchased in the U.S. This story just doesn't make much sense from a business standpoint. I'm sure they have citrus in Mexico.
    The citrus isn't added to the product, it is a natural accuring aroma in this strain, according to Google search info.

    As to business, it's like selling foreign wine in the U.S. and charging more because it's "IMPORTED".

    I looked at the ads for "Medical" marijuana in the local newspaper and saw "Orange Kush" for $10 & $15 per gram, and 2 grams for $25. (Those prices include the tax they have to pay to CA. )

    Some of the places even deliver to your front door 10a.m. to 10 p.m. 7 days a week.

    24 pages of nothing but ads for Medical marijuana in one weekly newspaper, The San Diego Reader.
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    (28.3495 grams per ounce)

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    How much sales tax does the BOE collect from medical marijuana businesses?

    Data collected by the BOE, MuniServices, and Hdl Companies shows that in 2014, the 1,623 dispensaries registered with the BOE reported $570 million in taxable income, which amounted to $49.5 million in tax due to the state.

    https://www.boe.ca.gov/news/marijuana.htm
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    There would be no tax on it in Mexico.
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    Mexico senator proposes legalizing medical marijuana

    By Sofia Miselem November 10, 2015 9:30 PM



    Mexico City (AFP) - A Mexican senator introduced a bill to authorize medical marijuana, as a new poll showed support for such legislation but opposition to broader legalization following a landmark Supreme Court ruling.


    The court opened the door to legalizing cannabis last week when it authorized four people to grow pot for their personal, recreational consumption.

    The ruling had the effect of kickstarting a national discussion on whether Mexico should legalize marijuana in a country that has endured a decade of brutal violence perpetrated by drug cartels.


    While President Enrique Pena Nieto opposes legalization, he said on Monday that his government will convene medical experts and sociologists to debate the issue and decide whether to craft legislation to regulate marijuana use.


    Senator Cristina Diaz, of Pena Nieto's centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), took the first step in Congress, proposing legislation that would allow imports of cannabis-based medicine and its consumption.


    "I am not talking about legalizing marijuana. I am talking about the possibility that Congress will authorize imports of this type of medicine," Diaz told the Senate.

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    A man smokes marijuana during a rally in front of the Supreme Court of Justice in Mexico City on Nov …

    "The debate must be around the medical benefits of using cannabis, which is something that has grown in the United States, Britain, Germany and elsewhere," she said.

    Her proposal came a month after an eight-year-old epileptic girl named Grace became the first person in Mexico to be authorized to use medical marijuana following a legal battle.


    Grace began her cannabidiol treatment last month in the hope of stopping 400 daily seizures. The health ministry had indicated that her case was an exception to the law after a court ruled in her favor.


    Diaz said her legislation would benefit some 5,000 people in Mexico.

    - Mexicans approve medical marijuana -
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    People demonstrate against the decriminalization of marijuana with a banner reading "Enough of …

    A poll published by El Universal newspaper showed that while two-thirds of Mexicans oppose legalizing marijuana, 79 percent are in favor of its medical use.

    The survey also showed that 63 percent are in favor of a debate on whether to end the country's marijuana prohibition.


    The telephone poll was taken on November 6 and 7 among 1,000 adults, two days after the Supreme Court ruling.


    The survey, which has a 3.1 percentage point margin of error, showed that 60 percent of Mexicans disagreed with the court's decision, which could set a legal precedent if the justices issue four more similar rulings.


    A poll in October by the Parametria polling firm -- before the court's decision -- showed that 77 percent opposed legalizing marijuana.


    Supporters of legalization argue that allowing citizens to grow and smoke their own pot would take a major source of cash away from drug cartels and help reduce the country's brutal gang turf wars.


    But the survey showed that 63 percent of Mexicans do not believe that violence and impunity will decrease in Mexico if pot is made legal.


    The moves in Mexico are part of a growing debate in the region on legalizing marijuana.


    Uruguay has created a regulated market for pot, while Chile's Congress is considering a bill to legalize its recreational and medical use.


    In the United States -- the biggest consumer of drugs from Mexico -- 23 states and Washington, DC now allow medical marijuana, while four states plus the US capital have legalized pot for recreational use.


    http://news.yahoo.com/two-thirds-mex...232519556.html

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    Marijuana Costs In The US: How Black Market, Retail And Medical Pot Prices Compare

    BY PHILIP ROSS @THISISPRO ON 07/08/14 AT 4:19 PM

    Bob Leeds, co-owner of Sea of Green Farms, shows some of the marijuana he produces during a tour of his company's facility in Seattle, Washington, June 30, 2014.PHOTO: REUTERS

    Marijuana suppliers and connoisseurs are watching to see if consumers of legal marijuana in Washington state will take to government-sanctioned weed, which became available on Tuesday, or if illicit suppliers' lower costs will keep consumers from going legit.

    This much is known: Legal pot means higher-priced pot -- by a long shot.


    According to PriceOfWeed.com, a crowdsourced Internet archive of black market pot prices across the country, the national average cost of an ounce of high-quality black market marijuana is roughly $350. Great pot, as reported by consumers, is most expensive in North Dakota, where an ounce goes for $400. Other states in which users report comparatively high prices for illegal weed include Iowa, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wyoming.


    Pot smokers can really stretch their dollars on the West Coast. It’s cheapest in Oregon, where high-quality pot sells for about $210 per ounce, followed by Washington ($232 per ounce) and California ($245 per ounce).


    Those prices are all for illicit recreational marijuana. A step above the black market stuff is medical cannabis, which is legal in 23 states and tends to be more expensive than what consumers can get on the street but is still cheaper than legal recreational weed.


    Medical marijuana is usually milder than its black market counterparts, in part because medical cannabis users seek out varieties that treat specific conditions like nausea or arthritis. A patient might prefer a variety that is aggressive in treating his or her symptoms but has a more temperate psychoactive effect.



    The price of street, medical and retail marijuana in Colorado and Washington.PHOTO: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES/HANNA SENDER

    Of the 23 states that have legalized medical marijuana, only Arizona, California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Washington employ licensed dispensaries to sell medical cannabis.

    Because the sale and distribution of marijuana of any kind remains illegal under federal law, these dispensaries operate in a gray area at best and frequently face threats of forced shutdowns from federal officials.


    Still, medical pot continues to sell, and at competitive prices. In Colorado, medical cannabis is about half the price of recreational cannabis. Denver dispensaries charge medical customers around $10 per gram; prices per gram for the retail stuff range from $15 to $25.


    In Seattle, medical dispensaries sell weed for $8 to $15 per gram.


    With Washington state’s first marijuana retail stores opening this week -- 24 pot shops centered mainly around Spokane, Vancouver, Tacoma and Bellingham (only one license was given to a retail store in Seattle) -- it’s not yet clear how consumers will respond to the higher price of legal weed. According to BOTEC, the consulting firm assisting the Washington State Liquor Control Board in rolling out Initiative 502, which made pot legal for recreational use in 2012, the after-tax retail price for a gram of pot will be about $17, or $482 per ounce.


    That’s about twice as expensive as what high-quality marijuana goes for on the state’s black market and in the state's medical marijuana dispensaries -- and that’s the lowball figure. Other models put the price of a gram of legal weed at about $723.


    One of I-502’s selling points was that it would supplant Washington’s black market for pot. But a lack of competition among marijuana retailers, price markups, exorbitant taxes and a supply shortage mean the legal product is not going to be cheap. Of the 2,600 growers who applied for certification from the Washington State Liquor Control Board, 80 received licenses. Of those, only about a dozen have begun harvesting, prompting weed shortages of legal marijuana.


    Then there are the endless layers of taxes associated with legal marijuana -- a 25 percent wholesale tax, plus another 25 percent minimum retail tax. Tack on a sales tax and ultimately Washington’s legal cannabis will have been taxed a total of 75 percent by the time it reaches the buyer.


    But most observers expect Washington consumers to embrace the legal paradigm, as they have in Colorado.


    Colorado, which opened its first retail dispensaries at the beginning of the year, raked in some $2 million in marijuana tax revenue in January 2014 alone and pulled in an additional $1.5 million in tax revenue from medical marijuana sales that same month. If figures remain on target, something state officials have indicated will likely be the case, Colorado could see itself $40 million richer by the end of the year.


    Roger Roffman, a professor emeritus in social work at the University of Washington who has closely watched Washington’s rollout of I-502, told International Business Times he thinks “overall … people will be inclined to do it legally” in Washington -- even if it costs more.

    http://www.ibtimes.com/marijuana-cos...ompare-1622362

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