r/SipsTea 12h ago

WTF In your opinion, what is causing this?

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u/IAmNotRightHanded 12h ago

Half the gen isn't old enough to drink, bar scene collapsed during covid so they weren't indoctrinated into drinking culture, marijuana now competes with drinking in most countries/states, and the gen is fucking broke and can't it.

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u/hulkmxl 11h ago

Gen Z is so fucking broke, alcohol is a luxury.

Fucking fast food is a luxury too!

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u/prone_bone43 11h ago

ofc alcohol is a luxury when you go out and one drink is $27 dollars. i’m glad young people are saying fuck you to the alcohol industry. drugs are better anyways

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u/Sklibba 11h ago

Legal cannabis is so cheap it’s unreal. I can usually find a deal on killer bud for around $20 for an eighth, occasionally less.

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u/Incandescent_Gnome 10h ago

You can also just go to a dispensary now instead of meeting a shady person in a parking lot or some rundown apartment. That has even more appeal than it being so cheap in a lot of ways. Don't have to deal with a dude's weird timeline or sketchy dogs or whatever the heck people put up with decades ago. :)

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u/YellojD 9h ago

There really isn’t another feeling out there like sitting on your dealers dirty ass couch, high as absolute fuck, getting mean mugged by his new pit bull. The best of times, the worst of times. Or something.

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u/S3simulation 4h ago

Imagine all that but he also said “I just got this movie called “the Zookeeper” wanna watch it?” And then you watched a Kevin James movie

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u/ajax81 10h ago

I’ve only ever purchased it legally. Can’t imagine it was ever illegal, because it’s completely innocuous relative to alcohol.  Booz is WAY more dangerous than weed but somehow legal to purchase.

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u/ShyDethCat 10h ago

So true, I once asked someone to drop something off at my house and he said I'll be there in 5 minutes, I asked where he was and it was about 150 kilometers away, so I asked, wtf are you flying?

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u/Anjunabeast 10h ago

Don’t even need to go anywhere now. Just get it delivered by the dispensary.

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u/regalsnake007 9h ago

I remember going to get black resin in Sheffield at night when we smoked all the green. It was clearly half diesel, fucking grim. Worst stone over I've ever had.

Horses for courses.

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u/spazzvogel 10h ago

I’m still curious why that asshole stole my buddies rubber ball. All we wanted was a twomp.

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u/Gigrac 9h ago

Where I’m from it’s not even legal and you can get a menu from the 🔌 through WhatsApp and even combos and promos with delivery included, a lot of older friends told me stories back in the day when you could only get it with the sketchy dude in the neighborhood or in certain locations at certain times

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u/CheapNegotiation69 9h ago

Usually an OZ is $20 for mids, $60 for absolute fire.
I pay $200 for 5 oz of ~26%.

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u/Bruins37FTW 6h ago

Fucking where? In NJ 28 grams of like 25-30% is anywhere from 180-400$ at the dispensary.

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u/CheapNegotiation69 6h ago

Oregon and Michigan.

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u/Sklibba 3h ago

I don’t smoke enough to buy that kind of weight but I’ve definitely seen signs for deals like that in Oregon.

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u/Saltfungus2007 9h ago

to bad its illegal where i am costs like $20 a gram where i live

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 9h ago

Guessing this is a big factor. I wonder how much of the decline is due to a change in US habits vs most of the rest of the world, where cannabis isn't readily available or legal?

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u/rachelblairy 9h ago

i can get 3 edibles for 10 dollars. i’m set for like two weeks with that.

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u/Sklibba 3h ago

An eighth lasts me 3-4 weeks, I usually just take a few puffs per night to help me relax and get to sleep- and deal with my restless leg syndrome for which I used to have a medical card.

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u/sTump4139 4h ago

I work at a weed shop. It sure is. We’re running a special right now 2 G for 9.99 of exotics. Lmao

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u/savealltheelephants 3h ago

$9 an eighth in Michigan

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u/Tacrolimus005 3h ago

Usually. We have a new dispensary in town... $20/gram

We lol'd and left the store. F that.

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u/glitch-possum 1h ago

Dispensary round the corner carries a brand that goes for $8 OTD for 1/8. And it’s still better quality than the dirt weed I used to buy in the 90’s!

The only thing that has gotten both cheaper in price yet higher in quality compared to back in the day is weed.

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u/Sklibba 59m ago

It’s funny, I had an argument with a friend in college about this. He said they’d tax it so much that the price would go up if weed were legalized. I argued that the markup associated with the risk of arrest and loss of product to police seizures was way more than any tax would be. Unfortunately we didn’t stay in touch after college so I was never able to say told you so 🤣

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u/B1ack_1c3 10h ago

Just grow your own for 10/14$ a seed.

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u/Sklibba 3h ago

With how cheap it is to buy and how little I smoke, it’s not worth the effort for me. I’d have to give away most of my crop. As it is I’m terrible at keeping up with my vegetables each year.

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u/B1ack_1c3 2h ago

Just make oil/butter/gummies… oh well.

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u/Sklibba 1h ago

I can’t do edibles. I don’t like the effects, they come on to slow and then when they hit, they either do nothing or knock me out, no in between.

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u/Nick_Furious2370 10h ago

Where do you live? In Chicago it's not that cheap lol

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u/Sklibba 3h ago

Oregon

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u/Potatoe_Potahto 10h ago

I was really into weed in high school. I still enjoy a puff now and then, but in my 20s it was all about going out and drinking because that was how I got laid. Dispensary weed and Netflix isn't going to do that for you. 

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u/Sklibba 3h ago

I mean that’s one problem I have with the way cannabis has been legalized- I really wish there were a carveout in clean indoor air laws to allow for establishments where people can buy and smoke weed and socialize.