First Marijuana Farmers Markets in LA Kick Off

Adam Henry, the general manager of the market, said that the open-air event was a chance for patients to not only buy weed at competitive prices but also learn from the growers. Patients were able to score a gram of weed for as little as seven bucks, compared to $20 in dispensaries. “We cut down the price of overhead and middle man,” Henry told ABC news. “You need guards at dispensaries. You need employees. Rent is expensive. That drivers up costs.”

At the indoor farmer’s market In Boyle Heights LA, patients waited up to an hour and a half to for access to medical weed at wholesale prices. And by mid-afternoon, about a thousand people were standing in a line that stretched around the block reports LA’s KPCC. After waiting an hour in the hot sun and not even half way to the entrance, John Arnt, an LA patient, told the station, “I’m willing to wait all day.”

Inside the Boyle Heights market there were about 25 to 30 vendors selling weed, pipes, edibles and even marijuana-infused sunscreen. And like the CA Heritage Market, organizers of this event hope their farmers market will be a permanent fixture in the future.

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