Annals Of Central Planning
By Mitch Berg
Minnesota “needs” 381 “cannabis dispensaries”, according to the same people who claimed that the state would have 20,000 Covid deaths, “best case”, by July of 2020.
And if you think that’s a curious number to arrive at, you’re right:
Now that recreational marijuana is legal, Minnesota will need nearly 400 dispensaries to comply with state law, a new study reveals.
The law requires one dispensary for every 12,500 Minnesotans. That totals to a minimum of 381 cannabis dispensaries across the state.
Why that exact ratio – a ratio higher than the ratio of McDonalds restaurants to Minnesotans?
Well, y’see, there was a study:
Participants in the study included Minnesotans who have consumed marijuana within the past year. Of those participants, 83% reported cannabis consumption at least once a month. Forty percent reported consuming cannabis “daily or almost daily.”
Still doesn’t make sense?
Just remember – the whole thing is a wealth transfer from taxpayers to the political class that employs the bureaucrats that’ll administer this inevitable soon-to-be boondoggle.
Now it makes sense, right?
February 8th, 2024 at 1:33 pm
So that’s 381 state approved, inspected and fully licensed retail outlets to serve the entire state? But there are 851 cities in Minnesota. Two-thirds of us will have to drive to a nearby town to find a legal dispensary. Unless we buy from the guy on the street corner across from the school.
Oh, the law will crack down on unlicensed dealers? Sweep ’em up like moonshiners and bootleggers? That sounds good except . . . what if the people you’re sweeping up tend not to be White Males? What if your arrestees tend to be from historically oppressed groups such as Black, Latino, Native American or Women? All those arrests won’t make your crime statistics look good. In fact, your crackdown will have a disparate impact that makes law enforcement look positively racist.
So no enforcement, then? How can the licensed shops stay in business if they’re being undercut by unlicensed dealers?
Didn’t anybody think this through before passing the law?
February 8th, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Looks like the state is pulling a California and putting a boatload of regulations and taxes on legitimate growers and distributors, and that’ll keep the market “black”, and I’m guessing we’ll see a lot of dispensaries and such going bankrupt. My calculation is just a bit north of $1 million per year of revenue per shop, and that’s fairly “lean” given that you’re going to need 5-10 people to run it, and the shop will merely resell wholesale dope.It’s not a business that is well suited to high markups.
Also of note is that for a person to get high every day for a year, it would require about 100-200 grams, but the law allows people to have a kG in their homes, enough to keep them high for a few years. So I’d argue the law is going to create thousands of informal pushers, too, all while the state loses money on selling dope to potheads in the same way they lost money selling beer to college students at football games.
February 8th, 2024 at 4:21 pm
Didn’t anybody think this through before passing the law?
You’re a funny guy, Big. Unintended consequences are the hallmark of all DemoCommie legislation.
February 9th, 2024 at 12:06 am
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February 9th, 2024 at 3:29 pm
Might be a good time to invest in a business that sells grow lamps and weed growing starter kits.
February 10th, 2024 at 7:52 am
It’s quite illuminating to review the condition of city & state run liquor stores. Short answer. Minnesota cannot sell booze and make a profit. Nevertheless our soi disant elites really, really believe that the state can sell dope and make a profit. Ya know, the movie “Idiocracy” was supposed to be satire, not a plan for government.
February 10th, 2024 at 11:02 am
What does the arrogant-ugly-fatfokker-walzruss have to say about this? Oh, that’s right, he said… HUBBA HUBBA HUBBA BUBBA BUBBA SPEWSHIT.
February 12th, 2024 at 10:49 am
Regarding municipal liquor stores, keep in mind that they have documents that “prove” they are profitable, more or less by ignoring lost property and corporate income tax, as well as depreciation of buildings and such not calculated.
Oopsie. So if they’re still unprofitable after that, well, there are bigger problems for munis than we’d initially have guessed.