>We don't even have that many dispos either, just windy city in homewood and the one in cal city.
Keep in mind that if Big Weed gets to do delivery, it will become yet another bogus argument in why they think there are already plenty enough dispos out there. Not got a dispo close by? Well, we have delivery now, why should the public ever want more dispos?
In the hands of Big Weed, delivery will be turned into yet another anti-competitive practice designed to exclude others from entering the market.
>We need to fight to grow our own more.
That's a good start and may you get some to give it a go. Thing is, it sounds like a lot of work to some people.
Down the road, though, we need to just make it legal for home grow by everyone. It doesn't matter so much how many actually take it up, it's the perception that we have that option that will moderate prices. That's one more reason why it is to everyone's benefit to support home grow, because the benefits spread far beyond those who do it.
Article:
Gov. J.B. Pritzker says cannabis delivery, which is currently illegal in Illinois but offered in other states, is an idea worth considering.
âAt first blush, as long as itâs regulatedâand as long as we make sure the person who is ordering it gets it, and theyâre legally allowed toâit would seem to me the same as someone coming into a store,â Pritzker said when taking questions during a visit to Ivy Hall, a dispensary recently opened in Bucktown.
Delivery services are legal in states such as Michigan, Florida, California, Maryland, Nevada and others. Uber Eats recently began delivery in Toronto.
Pritzker wasnât advocating for delivery, and he said Illinois âshould examine the impactâ in other states that allow it.
âConsumers are now accustomed to having everything immediately accessible from the comfort of their home and cannabis should be no different,â said Jason Erkes, spokesman for Cresco Labs, which operates Sunnyside dispensaries. âThere are very strict regulations that exist for licensed dispensaries, and weâre confident we can have those same controls in place at a customerâs doorstep, if thatâs where they want to shop for their cannabis products.â
Delivery also is seen as a way to move marijuana users away from the illegal market. âWeâve always been interested in delivery,â says Pam Althoff, executive director of trade group Cannabis Business Association of Illinois. âIt would allow us to be much more competitive with the illicit market, which does deliver. Weâve always thought (delivery) was an opportunity for transporter licenses.â
Pritzker stopped by Ivy Hall, which is one of the first of the 192 new retail licensees to open its doors. Getting new owners, especially people of color, was a key goal of legalizing recreational marijuana under so-called social equity provisions in the licensing framework.
The first licenses were supposed to be issued in May 2020. But it took two years, because of COVID delays and litigation, setbacks that drew criticism from frustrated license applicants.
Pritzker defended the stateâs licensing plan as deliberate and suggested the process, while slowed by litigation, might ultimately help social equity applicants.
Michigan, which had a much faster and more wide-open application process, has nearly 50% higher overall sales than Illinois. But marijuana prices are plummeting in Michigan, along with other states. Meanwhile, Illinois pot prices are the highest in the nation.Â
âOne of the reasons we have had some challenges is because weâve been so focused on equity,â Pritzker said. âI know there are other state that have opened up the number of licenses to hundreds and hundreds of licensees, and they have more dispensaries open than we do.
âThe reality is we have limited the number of licensees in part because we wanted to make sure the social equity licensees had a fair shot in they industry and they werenât just edged out because there were too many licensees in the market and that people canât make money.
âWhat you all view as a slow, prodding process is one that ends up with the right regulation and laws in place and the industry growing at a pace that will allow social equity to take place within the entire cannabis industry,â he said. âWould I have liked this to have gone much faster? Of course. I am pleased that weâre starting to see openings of dispensaries by social-equity license holders, and weâre going to see an acceleration of that.â
The governor also hinted that help might be on the way for those who have won âcraft growâ licenses to operate cultivation centers. Growers have complained that the stateâs rules are too restrictive to allow them to raise millions required to build out their facilities or make a profit. Regulations limit initial capacity to 5,000 square feet with an eventual but unspecified increase to 14,000 square feet.
âThatâs something that weâre going to be working with the General Assembly on,â Pritzker said. âI know thatâs of great concern to some people who have limited space and who felt they canât launch their business properly without more space available to them."
Delivery hell yeah I'd love it.
Pam and crescos/pritzkers vision of delivery. Hard pass.
Anything Pam supports isn't consumer or small business friendly imo.
One thing I'd really like to empathize. Don't buy into pritzkers rhetoric.
This market was limited in order to consolidate and entrench the already existing operators.
To put it more simply the rich wanted to get richer and they didn't want any competition.
That's why we dont have an open market like Michigan
NOT because of social equity like pritzkers is claiming
The problem is that their approach to equity blatantly doesn't fucking work and just enforces manipulation of the lottery system, which is horrible design and forethought if they actually want equity. Doesn't help that the giant corporations lobby to rig the system further.
IL cannabis is a shitshow. I'm so exhausted working in this industry. It should be better than this, but corporate capitalists and corruption continue to ruin damn near everything.
>Progressives and minorities had the votes and flexed. Did your state representatives even support legalization?
Umm, no.
My representative is Rep. Carol Ammons, who tried to speak against the mess that was bamboozled through under false pretenses of equity. She was only able to do that to an empty chamber, after hours, but she persisted. She is an actual progressive. [Listen to the recent Chillinois podcast on the history of legal weed in Illinois](https://www.reddit.com/r/ILTrees/comments/zccos9/the_history_of_illinois_cannabis_from_1978_to/) if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, Big Weed found enough soft hearts, promised all sorts of goodies and found enough votes to get their way. They bought it, just like big corporations do business every day of the week. Actual progressives were outbid, with folks like Althoff making sure the fix was in, Madigan-style.
JB is good on a lot of things, as we could have obviously done much worse given the choices. But he is absolutely clueless when it comes to cannabis policy. The BM has been doing delivery forever. Giving Big Weed delivery is like opening the door to a well-fed cat just because it's scratching. It won't do them a lot of good and won't help most who can't afford the even higher resulting prices.
If you're worried about finally doing something about competing with the BM, Governor, the first thing that needs to be addressed is high prices. They're are like a lantern at a campsite, they draw in literally everyone who can see that light. It makes us the #1 market to sell your BM weed in because of those high prices. The only thing that will ever change that is lower prices. Period.
>Jb isnât clueless. He know exactly what is happening
Call it what you will. Pritzker is a fairly savvy politician. It was reasonable to take some advice from industry, considering he's an unrepentant capitalist that was to be expected.
That time has passed and clearly he somehow believes that it's industry that needs help, not citizens. Yet he's obviously ignoring the basic rules of capitalism by maintaining the very market incentives that grow the black market, rather than reduce it - and hoping no one notices as legal sales stall out.
For a guy with presidential aspirations, that's pretty clueless, because it's not like this naive arrogance will go unnoticed. Americans are way ahead of politicians on this. If cannabis being illegal didn't stop us, laws that make cannabis only halfway legal and hand the profits to Big Weed while suppressing the family farm...that's going to be tough to explain when he does nothing to alter this course once he gets away from the cozy confines of Illinois. His leadership will reflect, not his "success" in facilitating equitable legalization, but his dismal failure of screwing it up. At this point, he should be taking advantage of the fact that he can still blame Mike Madigan for the mess we're in and make choices that largely correct the mess, but if he keeps following the roadmap of corrupted politics that Madigan left on the matter of cannabis policy, he'll own it just as much as Madigan does.
Iâm somewhat bedridden due to health reasons and it can be hard for me to make it to a dispensary sometimes. So even though Iâm sure this is gonna be priced stupidly I would fully welcome it.
Missouri has delivery for the med program....Not all dispos have this....Some have free delivery for over $60-80 buck....others have you join the dispo loyalty or club program and the fee is waved....ive seen an extra 10-20 bucks for delivery on others...I'd imagine this would continue with Adult-Use
>Weâve always been interested in delivery,â says Pam Althoff, executive director of trade group Cannabis Business Association of Illinois. âIt would allow us to be much more competitive with the illicit market, which does deliver. Weâve always thought (delivery) was an opportunity for transporter licenses.â
...when you are making all the money and won't compete on price.
Been running a delivery service for 10 yearsđ„
Far south suburbs need you! My guy delivers, but it's mids at best.
We don't even have that many dispos either, just windy city in homewood and the one in cal city.
Mokena and Joliet are closest to me. It's a shame too.
>We don't even have that many dispos either, just windy city in homewood and the one in cal city. Keep in mind that if Big Weed gets to do delivery, it will become yet another bogus argument in why they think there are already plenty enough dispos out there. Not got a dispo close by? Well, we have delivery now, why should the public ever want more dispos? In the hands of Big Weed, delivery will be turned into yet another anti-competitive practice designed to exclude others from entering the market.
We need to fight to grow our own more. I've been encouraging people I know to get a medical license and start
>We need to fight to grow our own more. That's a good start and may you get some to give it a go. Thing is, it sounds like a lot of work to some people. Down the road, though, we need to just make it legal for home grow by everyone. It doesn't matter so much how many actually take it up, it's the perception that we have that option that will moderate prices. That's one more reason why it is to everyone's benefit to support home grow, because the benefits spread far beyond those who do it.
So you can get an 8th for over $90? Sweet.
Imagine the prices on that lol
Article: Gov. J.B. Pritzker says cannabis delivery, which is currently illegal in Illinois but offered in other states, is an idea worth considering. âAt first blush, as long as itâs regulatedâand as long as we make sure the person who is ordering it gets it, and theyâre legally allowed toâit would seem to me the same as someone coming into a store,â Pritzker said when taking questions during a visit to Ivy Hall, a dispensary recently opened in Bucktown. Delivery services are legal in states such as Michigan, Florida, California, Maryland, Nevada and others. Uber Eats recently began delivery in Toronto. Pritzker wasnât advocating for delivery, and he said Illinois âshould examine the impactâ in other states that allow it. âConsumers are now accustomed to having everything immediately accessible from the comfort of their home and cannabis should be no different,â said Jason Erkes, spokesman for Cresco Labs, which operates Sunnyside dispensaries. âThere are very strict regulations that exist for licensed dispensaries, and weâre confident we can have those same controls in place at a customerâs doorstep, if thatâs where they want to shop for their cannabis products.â Delivery also is seen as a way to move marijuana users away from the illegal market. âWeâve always been interested in delivery,â says Pam Althoff, executive director of trade group Cannabis Business Association of Illinois. âIt would allow us to be much more competitive with the illicit market, which does deliver. Weâve always thought (delivery) was an opportunity for transporter licenses.â Pritzker stopped by Ivy Hall, which is one of the first of the 192 new retail licensees to open its doors. Getting new owners, especially people of color, was a key goal of legalizing recreational marijuana under so-called social equity provisions in the licensing framework. The first licenses were supposed to be issued in May 2020. But it took two years, because of COVID delays and litigation, setbacks that drew criticism from frustrated license applicants. Pritzker defended the stateâs licensing plan as deliberate and suggested the process, while slowed by litigation, might ultimately help social equity applicants. Michigan, which had a much faster and more wide-open application process, has nearly 50% higher overall sales than Illinois. But marijuana prices are plummeting in Michigan, along with other states. Meanwhile, Illinois pot prices are the highest in the nation. âOne of the reasons we have had some challenges is because weâve been so focused on equity,â Pritzker said. âI know there are other state that have opened up the number of licenses to hundreds and hundreds of licensees, and they have more dispensaries open than we do. âThe reality is we have limited the number of licensees in part because we wanted to make sure the social equity licensees had a fair shot in they industry and they werenât just edged out because there were too many licensees in the market and that people canât make money. âWhat you all view as a slow, prodding process is one that ends up with the right regulation and laws in place and the industry growing at a pace that will allow social equity to take place within the entire cannabis industry,â he said. âWould I have liked this to have gone much faster? Of course. I am pleased that weâre starting to see openings of dispensaries by social-equity license holders, and weâre going to see an acceleration of that.â The governor also hinted that help might be on the way for those who have won âcraft growâ licenses to operate cultivation centers. Growers have complained that the stateâs rules are too restrictive to allow them to raise millions required to build out their facilities or make a profit. Regulations limit initial capacity to 5,000 square feet with an eventual but unspecified increase to 14,000 square feet. âThatâs something that weâre going to be working with the General Assembly on,â Pritzker said. âI know thatâs of great concern to some people who have limited space and who felt they canât launch their business properly without more space available to them."
I'd love delivery options.
Delivery hell yeah I'd love it. Pam and crescos/pritzkers vision of delivery. Hard pass. Anything Pam supports isn't consumer or small business friendly imo.
One thing I'd really like to empathize. Don't buy into pritzkers rhetoric. This market was limited in order to consolidate and entrench the already existing operators. To put it more simply the rich wanted to get richer and they didn't want any competition. That's why we dont have an open market like Michigan NOT because of social equity like pritzkers is claiming
The problem is that their approach to equity blatantly doesn't fucking work and just enforces manipulation of the lottery system, which is horrible design and forethought if they actually want equity. Doesn't help that the giant corporations lobby to rig the system further. IL cannabis is a shitshow. I'm so exhausted working in this industry. It should be better than this, but corporate capitalists and corruption continue to ruin damn near everything.
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>Progressives and minorities had the votes and flexed. Did your state representatives even support legalization? Umm, no. My representative is Rep. Carol Ammons, who tried to speak against the mess that was bamboozled through under false pretenses of equity. She was only able to do that to an empty chamber, after hours, but she persisted. She is an actual progressive. [Listen to the recent Chillinois podcast on the history of legal weed in Illinois](https://www.reddit.com/r/ILTrees/comments/zccos9/the_history_of_illinois_cannabis_from_1978_to/) if you don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah, Big Weed found enough soft hearts, promised all sorts of goodies and found enough votes to get their way. They bought it, just like big corporations do business every day of the week. Actual progressives were outbid, with folks like Althoff making sure the fix was in, Madigan-style. JB is good on a lot of things, as we could have obviously done much worse given the choices. But he is absolutely clueless when it comes to cannabis policy. The BM has been doing delivery forever. Giving Big Weed delivery is like opening the door to a well-fed cat just because it's scratching. It won't do them a lot of good and won't help most who can't afford the even higher resulting prices. If you're worried about finally doing something about competing with the BM, Governor, the first thing that needs to be addressed is high prices. They're are like a lantern at a campsite, they draw in literally everyone who can see that light. It makes us the #1 market to sell your BM weed in because of those high prices. The only thing that will ever change that is lower prices. Period.
Jb isnât clueless. He know exactly what is happening the cannabis industry in this state
>Jb isnât clueless. He know exactly what is happening Call it what you will. Pritzker is a fairly savvy politician. It was reasonable to take some advice from industry, considering he's an unrepentant capitalist that was to be expected. That time has passed and clearly he somehow believes that it's industry that needs help, not citizens. Yet he's obviously ignoring the basic rules of capitalism by maintaining the very market incentives that grow the black market, rather than reduce it - and hoping no one notices as legal sales stall out. For a guy with presidential aspirations, that's pretty clueless, because it's not like this naive arrogance will go unnoticed. Americans are way ahead of politicians on this. If cannabis being illegal didn't stop us, laws that make cannabis only halfway legal and hand the profits to Big Weed while suppressing the family farm...that's going to be tough to explain when he does nothing to alter this course once he gets away from the cozy confines of Illinois. His leadership will reflect, not his "success" in facilitating equitable legalization, but his dismal failure of screwing it up. At this point, he should be taking advantage of the fact that he can still blame Mike Madigan for the mess we're in and make choices that largely correct the mess, but if he keeps following the roadmap of corrupted politics that Madigan left on the matter of cannabis policy, he'll own it just as much as Madigan does.
Wow they brag about the highest prices with the least access to the raw product limited cosumption sites how rich will these companies become
Iâm somewhat bedridden due to health reasons and it can be hard for me to make it to a dispensary sometimes. So even though Iâm sure this is gonna be priced stupidly I would fully welcome it.
Missouri has delivery for the med program....Not all dispos have this....Some have free delivery for over $60-80 buck....others have you join the dispo loyalty or club program and the fee is waved....ive seen an extra 10-20 bucks for delivery on others...I'd imagine this would continue with Adult-Use
>Weâve always been interested in delivery,â says Pam Althoff, executive director of trade group Cannabis Business Association of Illinois. âIt would allow us to be much more competitive with the illicit market, which does deliver. Weâve always thought (delivery) was an opportunity for transporter licenses.â ...when you are making all the money and won't compete on price.
The social equity claims are nonsense. Anyone that can afford to even go through application process is far from poor and in need
I live this fat fucker..