People, where is "here"? Would add more to the conversation if you were to mention a location. I am in N.C, and as the threads title suggest - It is very true here. However, I am not happy with this change. I was a mid-grade smoker, who got great mid-grade prices. Making honey hash or budder was a common ritual with my weekly half-O. If I did choose to smoke it, it was lime tinted, well cared for buds. So, the smoke was great, but any and all should vaporizer anyway.
My point being - It's all gone. For an economically-wise smoker, one alternative (alternative being the key word) use to be buying extremely high quality bud, but also paying much higher prices. For the last year and counting, the alternatives have become the only options available. Either you buy dank for x$/8th (hell of a lot more than my mids ever were), or you buy premium/name-brand for even more x$/8th. Price breaks? Hell no, not here. Get your friends together to all purchase something sizable, and you save practically nothing unless you rip your friends off, and that's not cool.
Happy to see better marijuana flooding the market, however, these goons are still selling it for the same price. Meaning this, a cornering of the market which is not a good thing for consumers. Of course, I don't pretend to have any insight in the extremely vast marijuana market, or a clue as to where most of it stems from - pun intended, I'm angry and out!