Out of Weed
- The supply issues plaguing the rollout of Illinois’ recreational cannabis program will continue to be a pervasive problem for months or even up to a year, experts say.
The state’s 21 cultivation centers simply don’t have enough product to supply the few dozen dispensaries, many of which have been forced to set buying limits and even shut down sales to recreational customers in the wake of legalization.
Despite selling nearly $11 million worth of recreational weed in the first five days of legal weed, a half-dozen dispensaries in Chicago did no recreational sales Monday.
You know who wasn't out of weed after the weekend?
No, not Rahm's son's "college counselor."
Your street corner dealers. Their supply chain seems to be running along without a hitch, proving once again the market will survive government interference. In fact, once the novelty wears off of waiting in line for six-to-eight hours and paying sixty-to-eighty bucks a quarter-ounce [corrected] with another twenty-five in taxes, we're betting on the street guys surviving. And expanding.
No, not Rahm's son's "college counselor."
Your street corner dealers. Their supply chain seems to be running along without a hitch, proving once again the market will survive government interference. In fact, once the novelty wears off of waiting in line for six-to-eight hours and paying sixty-to-eighty bucks a quarter-ounce [corrected] with another twenty-five in taxes, we're betting on the street guys surviving. And expanding.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
126 Comments:
Buying from your dependable weed dealer is best. You get it cheaper and you get more. And no taxes for politicians to p*ss away.
Legal pot is snoozeville. What's the latest on the Ex-Superintendent Special Ed and the elusive body cam footage from that fateful night in October?
65 an ounce? No, more like a couple G's (at low end) an ounce if its 65 bucks a gram before taxes. 28 grams in an ounce. An ounce of good stuff on the street can be found for 250ish. That's good stuff. The sales will plummet quickly and millions in a week will turn into a million every six months. People will go broke quick with uncle JB and his crew. unfortunately the state and city has already spent the revenue predictions (like prickwrinkles soda tax) and the state and city will find themselves in a bigger hole than before. But hey, make sure you vote democrat in 2020.
Not $60 an ounce. $60 to $75 for an eighth of an ounce. Approximately $480 plus for an ounce. And don’t forget the 4 plus thieving taxes added on at 30% or more. Just like Wheel Of Fortune, “Big Money”.
Half the state is on government assistance. They will make the poor, poorer! The people smoking this stuff don’t have disposable incomes! The state is in a death spiral and it’s only picking up speed!
The old joke about government efficiency is, if they took over operating a Desert they'd eventually run out of sand.
This is precisely how the illegal shops will simply dwarf the over-regulated, over-taxed 'legal' shops.
Scams on you. Demofuck sez, " If we legalize, taxpayers get mo money". {remember how the lottery was gunna fund the superfantastic educational system? }
Local law enforcement lives are endanger. First, transporting pot across state lines is a federal felony. Second, monetary transactions of schedule 1 dope transfers through the largely federally regulated banking system is a federal felony of money laundering.
Look here: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/deputies-seized-233-tons-of-marijuana-from-illegal-grows-in-hemet-in-2019/2285816/
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE TONS.
All dope sold in Illinois must be grown in Illinois if the shit sold is to be 'legal'.
I'll keep voting for nancy peelosi, will you?
The black market of weed will thrive. Thanks progressives for sinking the entire state into a stupor.
OFF TOPIC
CAPS came to 007th district roll call trying to collect money for a raffle to pay for PO TF’s lawyer fees. Complete joke of the CAPS unit in 007 trying to collect money for this guys crime that resulted in someone’s death. Not many appeared to donate fortunately. Wonder if CAPS will eventually try to collect money for the former SUPT.’s lawyer fees.
DUI article for TF.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/06/11/chicago-police-officer-charged-in-crash-that-killed-mother-of-two/amp/
It’s some maniac depressive MF on this job that need to eat a weed tree
Miserable fucka
Illinois could fuck up a 1 car funeral...
On the plus side, the lack of merchandise and cash from payments will keep the burglary and robbery numbers (today's previous SCC story) pretty low. So that's a 'win' of sorts, isn't it?
Hit up Van Buren/Cicero...they up still
I can't believe how "STUPID" some people are!
How did they survive this long?
Watch for a draconian demand for enforcement of illegal weed dealing laws.
CPD “teams” of all sorts, esp. tact, will be ordered to put the competition out of business.
Remember, legalized weed serves three purposes:
1.) Enriches the insiders who run the business.
2.) Makes your kid stupid and controllable......Especially if he/she is subjected to CPS/CTU communist brainwashing.
3.) Decriminalizes Dude to a large extent........Which makes him eligible for patronage jobs and keeps him stupid and controllable.
In my wildest dream,I wouldn't stand in line and pay those prices.now,excuse me,I just loaded up my one hitter.pass the chocolate milk and bacon buns.hang in there guys.just retired.
Time to get a new supplier.. Like the Sinaloa Cartel.
Private sector is always better.
We already have our first head shop burglary. That didn't take long. Crimesha'a army of hoodrats is foaming at the mouth realizing that it is all a cash business and a lot of soft targets are out there.
My guy’s not out of weed. Then again, I don’t pay 33% in taxes for my weed either
Colleges are not using SAT tests to qualify applicants because somebody thinks they are racist.
CPD will follow suit. The new oral part 2 is merit by a different name. The goal is to have much less white male supervisors. Not to have an honest chance at promotion. If you happen to be born a white male, find a way to be happy in that Blue Shirt.
Taking the SAT is an American rite of passage. Along with the increasingly popular ACT, the SAT is critical in identifying student readiness for college and as an important gateway to higher education. Yet despite efforts to equalize academic opportunity, large racial gaps in SAT scores persist.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-highlight-inequality-and-hinder-upward-mobility/
The laws of supply and demand. Those street corner boys are happy now.
Lori and her pot sidekick ignorant laughing lunatic Toi Hutchinson are violating the law on a daily basis by providing the recreational dope heads pot while medical marijuana patients suffer. Say the medical patients are fake or not, it’s not the point. Medical marijuana patients, many with serious issues are being rationed and cut off so that Lori and the rest of the tax hungry dummycrats can provide the permanent victim class, bearded hipster douches, and the dope heads in Lakeview while cancer patients and those with MS and AlS and vets with a variety of diseases and PTSD suffer. Stop selling recreational pot and only sell to medical patients until these tax hungry, incompetent lunatics can get their shit together.
Well now, if I was one of these stores, maybe get in contact with the local boys and find out why they have street weed but the fancy pants stores have none. Maybe Lori can strike a deal with Pleger and Jessie to get the dope boys to bring the privileged some weed. What a joke, this State and City cant do anything legal the right way. Ask Madigan where to buy the weed.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/1/6/21048947/whitney-young-swim-coach-principal-pool-inspector-general
Buy from the street dealers, don't give the state anymore tax money! They just piss it away vote buying and benefits for criminal aliens! Fuck you Pritzker!!
Just returned from Colorado couple months ago and I was at the airport I talk to a security guard there who stated that nobody can keep a job in Colorado because of the drug test.... school bus drivers security guards forklift drivers warehouse workers I did not realize how many hypes there was. Pitiful
Just a small correction to your post above. That should read "$60 plus a Gram", not an ounce.
Doing simple 3rd grade math, there's about 28 grams in an ounce. I'm sure there's little to no break on quantity bought. Oh, "rewards points", yeah, eventually buy about a lb over time they might throw you a pack or two of rolling papers! LOL
Correct. The black market and its associated criminal activity will bloom
The state will collect very little money, and spend more on controlling this crap.
The Libune and Slum-Times are giddy cheerleaders for weed. Every other article is about it. Don't expect any follow-up when the whole enterprise crashes.
State meddling in the supply chain caused this.
With all the taxes, legal sales in Illinois should be known as the "Mexican Mafia Financial Relief Act." Why would anyone buy from Groot when they could buy from Velvet, who probably delivers.
Correction: that's $60 per gram per the receipt you posted!!! And my Mr X delivers!!!
You can always hit up grand and Monticello for the dankest of dank., for the stickiest of the ickiest bud. Afterwards stick around for a shooting or two, hit up the subway and call it a night.
WGN at the top of the hour led with the weed shortage... it's sort of reminiscent of those 90s movies that depict the main character (who's a burnout) and his biggest concern (which is what the essence of the story arc is) - a pot shortage and the subsequent silliness that ensues as a result.
With more street corner revenue comes more street corner shootings. Count on that.
007 District CAPS should do everyone a favor and stop collecting, just fucking stop. He WILL go to prison for 4-7 years no doubt, and he deserves it. Who the fuck drives DUI now with Uber and Lyft available 24/7, only assholes and drunks and usually they are 2 in the same.
Business is thriving in the Burbs, fuck you ShitCago!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OFF TOPIC
CAPS came to 007th district roll call trying to collect money for a raffle to pay for PO TF’s lawyer fees. Complete joke of the CAPS unit in 007 trying to collect money for this guys crime that resulted in someone’s death. Not many appeared to donate fortunately. Wonder if CAPS will eventually try to collect money for the former SUPT.’s lawyer fees.
You have to be kidding. There is mo way we should be paying for his stupidity. Look at the article. Just before the crash he had the gas pedal to the floor. Save your money to wire to him in prison because that is where he is going.
How are we supposed to tell the “good” legal cannabis from the “bad” illegal type? Is there a tax stamp on each baggie, like the stamps on liquor? If we catch someone on the street with a big “bag-o-weed”, scales and baggies, how are we to prove that they are engaged in illegal sales and not just planning to “gift” all their friends with a carefully measured equal amount of “recreational” pot?
Until these (and many other) questions are answered by “the powers that be” (whoever they are), I’ve lost my ability to see or smell marijuana.
Just wait, it will eventually come down that street dealers will need to be arrested by all means possible. Those arrests will then be prosecuted for tax evasion. This way the prosecutors office can blame the feds for putting folks in prison AND the municipalities can remove competition.
Just wait and see.
I live in Phoenix, Arizona and they just recently opened a White Castle, which is supposed to stay open 24 hours a day. It was so busy during the initial opening days that it had to be shut down in order to re-supply their goods.
Do you think I should open a street corner White Castle?
To paraphrase the last scene of “Chinatown”: “Forget it Jale, it’s Illinois”
The only entity that could hurt the street dealers is for Amazon to start selling. Forget law enforcement.
This once again confirms a universal truth: Government fucks up everything they try to do.
The downside to the huge price spread between licensed and unlicensed weed sales will be that cops will be tasked to act as "tax enforcers" for the king.
More unwarranted accusations of "racism" pending...stay safe.
SCC, you are SO right. Confirmed by BARRON's, no less!
Key words, concepts: Supply/Demand; Cost of Production,
Illegal Market.
Reference: Barron's, January 6, 2020 @10:49 AM ET
"An Aurora Cannabis Greenhouse Is for Sale. Yes, It's
Gotten That Bad."
I'm waiting for one of these dispensaries to start accepting the Link card for payment.
Fat Boy and Little Girl plus Democrats once again f*cked up their very own dope business. It shows how desperate they are for the tax money and rushed in a half assed series of laws that were not fully thought out and poorly implemented. All the media hoopla and back slapping is typical hype in concert with Democratic Socialist agenda. The Community is laughing their asses off at stupid millennials, baby boomers, politicians and other wannabees about spending big bucks on taxes for cheap dope. The corner dope slingers are doing a brisk business picking up the slack of the poorly implemented State and city dope scam. Democratic punk ass b*tches can't sell their dope without F*cking that up too. Can't wait for the casino scam to come into play.
Obviously Groot and Pritzker were pot heads for a very long time. Frankly, just the smell of it gives me a major headache. Evidently our precious lawmakers lost more than just a few brain cells when they pushed this one through.
I’ll just grow hydroponic weed in the basement. Retirement is on the horizon and I’ll need a side job.
The elasticity of demand.
My prediction......
More people will be prosecuted and jailed for lengthy sentences for selling and buying it through the cheaper street prices.
The government doesn’t like to be undercut. And liberals will rejoice or remain quite.
This story about CPS teachers living outside the city as well as other fraud conducted by CPS was released in a report by the Inspector General. Heres the link
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-public-schools-fraud-waste-misconduct-cps-oig-20200106-kfuxgqsrnfbynlz7d3cl3y5oo4-story.html
I got stop by the DEA and gave up my Drug Dealer, "J P PRICKSTER"!
Why would you pay $2k an ounce to a state controlled store when you can go to your local dealer and pay 2-300 for better stuff???
Anonymous said...
Not $60 an ounce. $60 to $75 for an eighth of an ounce. Approximately $480 plus for an ounce. And don’t forget the 4 plus thieving taxes added on at 30% or more. Just like Wheel Of Fortune, “Big Money”.
1/07/2020 12:21:00 AM
Nope, its $65-70 a GRAM
$65 x 28.3495231 = $1842.719 an ounce
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OFF TOPIC
CAPS came to 007th district roll call trying to collect money for a raffle to pay for PO TF’s lawyer fees. Complete joke of the CAPS unit in 007 trying to collect money for this guys crime that resulted in someone’s death. Not many appeared to donate fortunately. Wonder if CAPS will eventually try to collect money for the former SUPT.’s lawyer fees.
DUI article for TF.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/06/11/chicago-police-officer-charged-in-crash-that-killed-mother-of-two/amp/
1/07/2020 12:45:00 AM
I don’t understand why people donate to that type of stuff. There are people that probably donated to the Hanhardt defense too.
Charlie Beck please hire civilians for CAPS , these sworn police officers do zero
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Buying from your dependable weed dealer is best. You get it cheaper and you get more. And no taxes for politicians to p*ss away.
1/07/2020 12:18:00 AM
And he never runs out
"If the government was in charge of managing the desert, in 5 years there would be a shortage of sand..." h/t Milton Friedman.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OFF TOPIC
CAPS came to 007th district roll call trying to collect money for a raffle to pay for PO TF’s lawyer fees. Complete joke of the CAPS unit in 007 trying to collect money for this guys crime that resulted in someone’s death. Not many appeared to donate fortunately. Wonder if CAPS will eventually try to collect money for the former SUPT.’s lawyer fees.
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Passing the hat shouldn't be sneered at. You never know when it could be you in the hot seat. If you don't want to give, don't give.
It'll work. Trust the politicians.
All they have to do is sell on the corners near the dispensary- so that way the people waiting in line for hours can get High waiting .
Once the novelty wears off and the "holy fuck I'm getting ripped off" phase is over, it will be back to the local dealer. Who can now raise prices and still give a better deal than the State. "If" I were an officer, I would not touch a weed arrest if Cheech and Chong drove by in the car made out of weed.
I have had the "card" for a few years. I genuinely appreciate regulated grow operations, because of reliable quality. It is extremely beneficial that the product is free of "special chemicals" that cartels use in their free range grow ops.
Yeah there are going to be people who don't care what's used on the weed, but having a highly compromised immune system, I don't hate the strict grow regulations, I appreciate them.
The grow regulations are holding back the product availability now. But it won't always be so. It could even open up a whole new income for downstate farms and bring all new meaning to "farm to table".
Give it time, this could be a good thing for Illinois as a whole.
A friend with weed, is a friend indeed!
What about people on assistance!?!? They can’t afford that much!! We’ll need to make it so that can use snap or wic or whatever the fuck they have to get their weed products.
Anonymous said this above - But hey, make sure you vote democrat in 2020.
That always drives me crazy when people say that - it's usually the only choice we have at the polls - we have very limited options
How long before one of these licensed pot sellers steps out and starts buying from the gangs. Then turning around and reselling at a large profit through their stores. I say soon.
The state is in a death spiral and it’s only picking up speed!
1/07/2020 12:24:00 AM
I would say much of the country is on the same path unless they smarten up fast.
Don't worry, trust the Demoncratic Squad. Groot Inc has yo back. Let's spend mo money off those magnificent pot tax projections. Everything will be fine this is just a mere bump in the road, says the elitists. Fatty Toiletbowl of Springfield says, "Don't worry, buy our weed and get happy". Ill-inois continues to get sicker.
Wait until the powers that be realize that several factors will only serve to bolster street dealers.
Novelty of “legal pot” for sale will loose it’s allure.
Excessive pricing and taxes will dwindle sales.
Limited supplies and long lines will frustrate buyers.
Although legal sales means no packets that smell of ass cheeks.
And how long before the reefer lobby wants street level dealers put out of business?
Expunge records of users? What about sellers?
Buy on the street. No taxes. No pressure from the po-po.
Van Bryan and Cicero you got an armored Humvee
Off topic, but of interest: Federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an opinion upholding the District Court Judge Sharon Coleman's Dismissal of Sgt. Hosea Word's federal lawsuit against the City and CPD challenging the results of the 2015 Lieutenant's Promotional exam, alleging "high-ranking members of CPD leadership connived to sneak early test content to their “wives and paramours” prior to the 2015 exam, resulting in those romantic partners acing the test and receiving promotions."
If this is suppose to help the communerty — why is it being taxed? Any ways— people who are doing this are getting dumbed down and will vote democrat forever
"Half the state is on government assistance. They will make the poor, poorer! The people smoking this stuff don’t have disposable incomes! The state is in a death spiral and it’s only picking up speed!"
The same with all forms of legal gambling, Lotto, casinos, etc.
It is those that can least afford it that participate.
Pot isn't crack, it isn't heroin.
You can drink your liver into a stone.
Pot should be legal. Period.
It's a fucking weed. Easy to grow almost anywhere.
OT
Off- duty Academy range instructor arrested in 019...
Anonymous said...
OFF TOPIC
CAPS came to 007th district roll call trying to collect money for a raffle to pay for PO TF’s lawyer fees. Complete joke of the CAPS unit in 007 trying to collect money for this guys crime that resulted in someone’s death. Not many appeared to donate fortunately. Wonder if CAPS will eventually try to collect money for the former SUPT.’s lawyer fees.
DUI article for TF.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/06/11/chicago-police-officer-charged-in-crash-that-killed-mother-of-two/amp/
1/07/2020 12:45:00 AM
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I would donate a dollar store shaving creme and razor... TF needs to get rid of that fuzz on the bottom of his jaw and line his hair up. Besides, he should not be worried, CC ain’t in the bidness of locking people up. Case will prolly get dropped—- it’s cook county. Ask guys how cases use to get lost back in the day. Complete joke. Person collecting the money was prolly gonna pocket it if you ask me
Off topic.Maybe Hey Jackass can keep a tally of how many stolen guns are on the streets of Chicago versus how many stolen Louis Vuitton purses are on the streets. What a rathole.Plus now more and more crimes reports are ending with the suspects fled and "disappeared".So now it's open season on law abiding tax paying Citizens. Has the mayor set up Civil Disobedience classes for those law abiding taxpayers that want to protest the savages encouraged to use Chicago Cook as their violent hunting ground killing field?How many Children, Seniors,Pregnant Women,21 yr old Women have to be violently assaulted, robbed,maimed , killed by roving groups of coward punks ?
Anonymous said...
Colleges are not using SAT tests to qualify applicants because somebody thinks they are racist.
CPD will follow suit. The new oral part 2 is merit by a different name. The goal is to have much less white male supervisors. Not to have an honest chance at promotion. If you happen to be born a white male, find a way to be happy in that Blue Shirt.
Taking the SAT is an American rite of passage. Along with the increasingly popular ACT, the SAT is critical in identifying student readiness for college and as an important gateway to higher education. Yet despite efforts to equalize academic opportunity, large racial gaps in SAT scores persist.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-highlight-inequality-and-hinder-upward-mobility/
1/07/2020 06:48:00 AM
Certain people cannot cut the mustard and cry about it. Much like connected people on CPD, they think they "earned" their position because they have clout, they would never make it in the private sector.
Jon Lowery is a major investor in the legal pot industry,,,,,,,I wonder just what city he got his seed money for the investment from?
Bueller,,,,,,Bueller......
If you dont want to donate stfu. He was a cop at one time and made a bad choice. A choice that cost him his career and probably his freedom. So dont give anything and mind your own business.
We could import directly from Afghanistan, the home of Kush. Bring it back on Otherwise empty MAC flights
Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OFF TOPIC
CAPS came to 007th district roll call trying to collect money for a raffle to pay for PO TF’s lawyer fees. Complete joke of the CAPS unit in 007 trying to collect money for this guys crime that resulted in someone’s death. Not many appeared to donate fortunately. Wonder if CAPS will eventually try to collect money for the former SUPT.’s lawyer fees.
You have to be kidding. There is mo way we should be paying for his stupidity. Look at the article. Just before the crash he had the gas pedal to the floor. Save your money to wire to him in prison because that is where he is going.
1/07/2020 08:43:00 AM
Woman he killed had 2 kids too “She left two children here — 11 and 13. That’s what really hurts,” Bye bye Terrance make way!
Charlie Beck please hire civilians for CAPS , these sworn police officers do zero
1/07/2020 10:55:00 AM
Fuck it save the money and get rid of CAPS all together.
An ounce of legal Illinois weed is more expensive than an fucking Troy ounce of gold, and that’s 31 grams by the way ! What a Fucking joke these blood sucking, bottem feeding politicians are !
Whatever happened to “ just say no?” ♠️
Lt P is mad that his flutter Sgt is getting dumped to nights.....awww go back to your leather recliner and go back to sleep old man.
There are some new additions at O'Hare and Midway Airports. They now have dedicated boxes where you can dump your weed before getting on a flight! But do not use them! Those bastards are being slick. They will sell your weed and you get nothing! Look for me at Midway and my brother at O'Hare. We each will be wearing a sandwich sign that reads "I'll Buy Your Weed! Don't Throw It Away! I'll Weigh It And Give You 40% On The Dollar! It's Better Than Throwing It Away!" Turn your weed into cash!
The Weed Mongers. Our Slogan, "Turn Your Green Into Green!"
Republicans and other political parties rarely fill up the ballot choices, which usually makes Democratic the only choice.
Just how long before Trump declares all gangs as domestic terrorist organizations! If not why not?
That range instructor should be charged with failing to teach his charges marksmanship. Way o many CPD fired no one hit. First rile is you got to keep your yes open and on the target.
Can't wait to retire and light up...toke, toke, toke !!!!
The coca plant is just a weed.
The poppy is just a weed.
So yeah
It's a weedmergency!!!
These legal weed shops and every politician that supported it will have blood on their hands this year. It’s just a matter of time before armed robbers go in and shoot one of those places up to steal the cash and weed. Dummies standing in line will also be a big target. I just hope the victims families sue the shit out of the mayor, governor and every politician that voted for this.
Once again, the put their corrupt greedy needs before the safety of law abiding, tax paying citizens.
Be sure to turn a blind eye every now and then to save your own asses.
? State ,County expungements of all records for pot .
Will CPD Officers fired for pot found during drug tests be given a second chance , it only seems like the right thing to do .
Reason I bring this up because people arrested , convicted of illegal possession , maybe sales reduced to possession will be hired .
Now that is scary . Can’t wait for the drug shakedown scandals by these criminals , now police .
Keep lowering the Standards.
Off Topic but interesting: The Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 ( 3 days after the first Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima) was an implosion type with a Plutonium core Codename: FAT MAN. Just as FAT MAN destroyed Nagasaki, FAT GOVERNOR JB will destroy Illinois This State is in direct violation of Federal Law ( Marijuana Tax Act of 1937)
And here's the very latest from MarketWatch website:
'Cannabis Amnesty Box' (Jan. 7, 2020)
That's the text emblazoned on the latest amenity at
Chicago airports O'Hare and Midway (for dumping
recreational marijuana before boarding a plane).
Major Airlines have stated that they prefer people
boarding planes in Chicago (after Jan. 1, 2020) to
NOT bring the marijuana aboard the aircraft.
How come there’s never been a kale or spinach shortage, not even in the food deserts when the opened the Whole Foods there. I don’t remember people waiting in line for hours to get a good quality salad. Some people seem to have their priorities backward!
Beck do you see how stupid and corrupt this Mayor really is and how incompetent she and her staff are? Her staff is on per with the dummies on your staff. Take the money and run before you and your reputation are ruined.
Anonymous said...
We could import directly from Afghanistan, the home of Kush. Bring it back on Otherwise empty MAC flights
1/07/2020 04:24:00 PM
It hasn’t been MAC for a long time
Local weed dealer doesn’t sell edibles!!
Crain's Chicago Business
GREG HINZ ON POLITICS
January 07, 2020 04:26 PM UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
Foxx calls in big legal heat to help with Smollett probe
The embattled state's attorney retains ex-top judge Ruben Castillo and noted D.C. attorney Michael Bromwich to help her through Dan Webb's probe of how the Jussie Smollett case went down.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has called in some heavy legal reinforcements to help her deal with the continuing probe of how she and her office charged and then dropped charges against TV star Jussie Smollett over an allegedly faked downtown attack.
Retained to represent Foxx’s office is the Chicago office of Akerman LLP and specifically litigation partner Ruben Castillo, who joined the law firm this fall after stepping down as chief judge of the federal court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Hired by Foxx personally is prominent Washington D.C. attorney Michael Bromwich, a spokesman for Foxx’s campaign confirmed. Bromwich is a former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Justice but probably is best known for representing witness Christine Blasey Ford in U.S. Senate hearings on the confirmation of then U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The high-level hirings are an indication of just how much is at stake in the probe of the Smollett matter by Dan Webb, who was appointed a special prosecutor last year. It joins in the same case Castillo, whose biography on the Akerman web site says his practice will focus on “corporate investigations (and) white-collar criminal defense,” and Webb, for whom Castillo once worked when Webb was U.S. Attorney here.
In a phone interview, Castillo said a team headed by him was retained in October and, as per Foxx’s direction, is “fully cooperating” with Webb, the Winston & Strawn co-executive chairman who is a former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and served as the Special Counsel in the Iran-contra affair back in the '80s. Webb “has kept us busy” with requests for documents that other sources say run into the tens of thousands, but has not indicated where his review is going or when it will conclude, Castillo said.
“I don’t see that I’m defending” the office, Castillo said. “I see myself as assisting.” But there are no guarantees where the case will end up, he conceded.
Foxx spokeswoman Aviva Bowen said is “not uncommon” for the office to retain outside counsel, especially in complex civil cases. She said Akerman has not yet been paid anything, and did not immediately know its pay rate.
Castillo said the figure is “not anywhere near my usual rate”—believed to be in the hundreds of dollars an hour—but declined to provide a specific figure. Taxpayers will be footing the bill for Castillo's services.Bromwich was not immediately available for comment.
The Smollett case has stirred considerable controversy ever since the “Empire” actor reported that he’d been accosted near his River East hotel by mask-wearing men who shouted racist and homophobic slurs at him and declared he was in “MAGA country,” a reference to President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan.
At the prompting of police, Foxx’s office initially filed felony charges against him, alleging that he faked the matter and paid his attackers in a publicity stunt. But Foxx’s office later dropped the charges against Smollett after he agreed to forfeit his bail, suggesting there were difficulties with the case.
Webb has given no indication whether he will announce his decision in the case before or after the March Democratic primary, in which Foxx faces three opponents.
Why is this cash only?
Why would any form of tax revenue such as a hefty $25 tax on a $60 sale be in the best interest of the public? Oh wait. Transparency. Sure.
Nothing about these weed operations are in the best interests of Chicago. These morons can't even stock the inventory without a bureaucratic machine clusterfuck.
Only in and for the interests of the skim. Very Chicago. Dysfunction junction.
You need to correct your correction.
Looking at the receipts you posted, the crappiest ditch weed is going for $18.25 PER GRAM. ($516.48 per oz)
The spendy shit is $270 per gram which works out to $7641 per oz (Yeah, you read that right - over SEVEN AND A HALF GRAND)
Man, there are a lot of anti-liberals on here who really want the government to go back to limiting the freedom of chicagoans. I agree that it might not be a huge tax win, but the idea that it’s going to be a win for dealers is silly. Especially while commenting on an article about how the demand fit legal is so high
Inventory is low because growers haven’t been licensed yet (and plants take time to grow)
For those who don’t want to pay the absurd rates, we can grow our own.
This directly targets a major gang revenue stream.
Chill, it’ll be ok
Nothing like a good old fashioned white castle clonic, even in arizona.
What would really make me LMAO at the Amnesty Drop Boxes, is Passengers dropping off their little baggies of the Cheech & Chong variety of Weed known as "Labrador"! LOL
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Man, there are a lot of anti-liberals on here who really want the government to go back to limiting the freedom of chicagoans. I agree that it might not be a huge tax win, but the idea that it’s going to be a win for dealers is silly. Especially while commenting on an article about how the demand fit legal is so high
Inventory is low because growers haven’t been licensed yet (and plants take time to grow)
For those who don’t want to pay the absurd rates, we can grow our own.
This directly targets a major gang revenue stream.
Chill, it’ll be ok
Couldn’t agree more
Limiting the freedoms of Chicagoans, what a crock. You mean the freedom to shoplift at will, ignore any and all traffic laws, reside in the city illegally, pay for water and natural gas. Are those the freedoms my friend at 12:47 is referring To? If so yes want too abolisih those freedoms ASAP.
I understand your one of those fools that believe that weed is not a gateway drug. Will be fun to talk in about 5 years from know when all the problems of legal weed have come home to roost. Pay attention to what has happened too people in CO with their weed freedoms.
So if you can't put the weed money in the banks where is it Going? On certain that is determined, and it will be determined therected are going to be a large numbers of high profile robberies. Piles of cash will attract all types of evil doers. Professional thieves, gang thugs and of course the mob. Good luck stopping that. The first heist noting 200k opened a lot of evil eyes. Expect lots more.
Y'all sure have a lot of pot heads in Chicago/Illinois! Hope you keep em. We already have enough here.
My weed dealer is already adapting to the new laws. Last month, he asked me if I was into coke as well as weed (I'm not). He's texted me twice to ask if I want any more weed; usually it's me asking him if he's available. And he's lowered his prices...a $60 eighth is now $50, a $100 quarter is now $90. I'll probably just keep buying from him even though my neighborhood has a dispensary.
Sorry Gov Fat-Fuck but I'll play it safe, buy once from the legal weed store and keep the container. After that I'll buy from the street tax free and cheaper. How will you know if the weed in the container is legal or illegal?
Better yet, I'll grow my own in the back yard garden this summer.
No worries, I'm sticking with a good scotch.
Chill, it’ll be ok
1/08/2020 12:37:00 AM
You think it will huh? This is mismanaged Chicago, Cook County with Tubby ToiletSeat at the helm in Springfield. And you really don't think people with regular suppliers won't continue on using them instead of paying higher prices and being taxed on top of it? New buyers won't ask friends if they have a weed source and save some money over the taxed stuff. But you "chill" awesome dude, once baked you won't even feel Groot in your pockets. Let's talk in 10 years with regard to what recreational pot will do to the country. Illinois hasn't learned a thing from the mistakes of other states but they can only see green, already spending lofty tax estimates. The most corrupt state in the country, but it will all be okay. Have faith in the political machine, it's the Chicago Way, y'all.
Since he is so concerned about pot sales, a frustrated pot smoker should merely call AlderCreature Ervin for one of the well supplied vendors.
Retired.38 spl +P
Anyone buying legal flower in IL is either a fool or so wealthy that getting screwed out of $500 per oz is just pocket change to them. Rent a gas sipper and head to Denver. Same high-test is about $200 per oz. No lines and plenty of selection. Just be sure to use all turn signals and cruise control after leaving CO. And for God's sake, don't open your containers and don't smoke in your car.
This directly targets a major gang revenue stream.
Also know as the government of Illinois.
in some point in the near future LAW ENFORCEMENT will be able to pull up any legal weed sales.
Street stop and asshole is carrying an old worn out weed container pull up data off bottle determine if weed is the same.
The charge will be the same as those silly cigarette laws we enforce like selling LOOsies or bringing in out of state weed.
LAws are on books already to stick in in GROOTS behind.
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Since he is so concerned about pot sales, a frustrated pot smoker should merely call AlderCreature Ervin for one of the well supplied vendors.
Retired.38 spl +P
1/08/2020 01:06:00 PM
Wasn't he being looked at once-upon-a-time over
dope dealing at some of his "vast" real estate
holdings in Maywood?
Wasn't he a Maywood alderfool?
Any Maywood, Broadview or Forest Park
coppers have some insight to share?
"...you can buy from Velvet, who probably delivers..."
I'm sure I don't want anyone named Velvet near my house.
Well, and article in WGN's news today talks about the quagmire of Pot and Guns, FOID Cards, CCL, and Firearm Purchases.
According to the state, with the first two since those are state issued, no problemo, but not so with purchasing a firearm via ATF background check.
It further states hat Illinois does not collect or share personal information. Is that so? Are legal weed customers having their Driver's Licenses swiped-scanned when making a "legal" purchase at a Dispensary? If they are, then I'd say they do indeed have your personal information.
Go to Colorado or Nevada the dispensaries are always full and they are making millions. Give Illinois time they will be raking in the money as well.
Ervin was previously Maywood's Village Manager
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