I happen to be watching a show on the history of alcoholic beverages as we know it and they mentioned a famous bartender getting paid 100 dollars a week and how he was getting more than the vice president at the time. I know 100 dollars back then bought a lot because things were much cheaper. Will we in say 50 years or so hearing ourselves say I remember when such and such was a dollar as it increases to a Lincoln??
Inflatation is amazing...
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TommyTooter
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hoo ha! i walked into a jack in the box the other day, took one look at the menu and walked out. 6 bucks for a greasy burger in a franchise store? no way. i'll go across the street and get 4 tacos from the roach wagon for the same 6 bucks.
when i was a kid, white castle sliders were 10 for a buck. now they have 6 for 5 dollars in the freezer at the grocery. not gonna happen.
my mother used to send me to the store in the late 50's and early 60's with a dollar for a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. i had to give her the change. same with the quarter dad gave me for his cigarettes. at the candy store, a dollar was enough to get two kids sick.
i'm no economist, but i'll bet if one looked at the retail price of commercial marijuana, it hasn't inflated as much as the rest of the economy. in 1972, gasoline was about $00.20/gal and an ounce of weed was $20.00. today, the price for gas is around $3.00/gal here and $50.00/oz for weed.
it's funny how silly i always thought their talk was about what a nickel would buy and how much stuff was less than a dollar when they were young. so here i am ,forty years later, the old fogie in the same conversation with youngsters old enough to notice that their money isn't buying what it did when they were children.
when i was a kid, white castle sliders were 10 for a buck. now they have 6 for 5 dollars in the freezer at the grocery. not gonna happen.
my mother used to send me to the store in the late 50's and early 60's with a dollar for a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. i had to give her the change. same with the quarter dad gave me for his cigarettes. at the candy store, a dollar was enough to get two kids sick.
i'm no economist, but i'll bet if one looked at the retail price of commercial marijuana, it hasn't inflated as much as the rest of the economy. in 1972, gasoline was about $00.20/gal and an ounce of weed was $20.00. today, the price for gas is around $3.00/gal here and $50.00/oz for weed.
it's funny how silly i always thought their talk was about what a nickel would buy and how much stuff was less than a dollar when they were young. so here i am ,forty years later, the old fogie in the same conversation with youngsters old enough to notice that their money isn't buying what it did when they were children.
Alien Allen
Froggy the Prick
you are wrong about pot
back in 1972 I could buy a pound for $125
Today an ounce is over $200
Where are you buying weed for that cheap??????
back in 1972 I could buy a pound for $125
Today an ounce is over $200
Where are you buying weed for that cheap??????
Peter Parka
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When I started smoking marijuana in the early 90s it was £20 an ounce for weed and £15 an ounce for rocky. Nearly 20 years later, it's sold in 10 bags now which are a bit under an ounce but it's still £20 for weed and only £5 for rocky. Given inflation, I'd say marijuana has got quite cheap!
TommyTooter
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i can still buy pounds for $125 if i buy enough at once. back then i could get 10 pounds for 500 bucks.
single quarter pounds of commercial are $125 and ounces are $50
high grade is sold by the gram at between 15 and 30 with the price sometimes getting down toward 10 if you buy a whole ounce.
from what i'm told, these prices are pretty standard over most of the us with fluctuations in medical marijuana states and places that are farther from the border than here, which is austin, tx.
it also helps if you are part of the scene rather than a tourist. for years, i didn't even know that silly psybin mushrooms were even sold.
TommyTooter
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is rocky hash?
here, rock is cocaine and it's more like $600/oz which is actually much lower than it was 30 years ago when coke could cost $100/gr
Peter Parka
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Yeah, rocky is hash.
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