The hood always needs weed I know people Alllllllllllll over Detroit still killing it. Just gotta be in the right spot amongst the right perps 10$ grams flying out barely open windows of houses making McDonald's look slow.
Shiddd .. then explain why it’s MORE expensive now than it used to be .. even at the dispos the prices just keep creeping up… I personally don’t think it’s worth that type of money and should be WAYYY cheaper
@@darnelldaughtrey3646black market too many easy corners to cut offsetting quality . weed is dirt cheap rn and dispos follow regulation to a degree, i think like ricky said it still hasn’t bottomed out and a lot of people are operating in the red currently. tbch if you aren’t already in the rec weed game black market or dispo doesn’t seem like much of a point/roi
@@betonblack3621you don’t need a book Brody lol you could of went to a hydroponic store and they would of taught you everything for free you wasted money on that book
@@Rerollful nah you need learned experience. Something someone can’t teach you in a 5 minute convo. I already know you’ve never grown with that statement. How you gonna tell me about me ?! lol the internet Man 🙄
as a legal grow owner in michigan... I wish it was still 1k a pound... we've seen prices for our indoor hit 700, and outdoor , tested, only $150.........
I just left a grow house in Colorado. Them guys have been operating in the red for 8 years, "since they've opened". They owe their investors millions.... one of the many reasons I left....
Prices are the same, there’s just way more cheap weed now. I’m still paying 2000-3000 for the super fire, but paying $900 for the stuff that LOOKS fire but isn’t
@@poptartkilla3718 prices are not the same. A real pack of top shelf used to go for 1600 ABQ NM. They go for 12 now. Prices dropped. But I agree w u that there is A LOT more cheap weed out there. 500-700 packs so many options.
An old GQ article from '16 or '17 titled "The Great Pot Monopoly" talks about how there is a group of investors that are patenting strains that they didnt even create to essentially future proof their profit margins like they're Monsanto of the weed business
Seems like a grower could get around that pretty easy though lol by just giving it a new name. I doubt these investors are running through every spot in the legal world doing genetic tests to make sure nobody is growing them without paying up, right?
Weed is so cheap in the US. Here in Scandinavia we pay $3500~6000 for a kilo. Usually hash is cheaper than weed and the quality isn’t the best. I’d rate the weed I got now a 6-7 of 10 but it’s probably a autoflower by the looks, smell and high.
@@LsxSosaeven less. Upstate NY we got pounds for $300, cheapest shit you can get. Exotics up to the $1200-$1600 range for a p That $300 pound could make a killin tho
In Michigan there are ounces cheaper than double date at Applebee's with a coupon. No money. Just multi state operations holding on till really big companies can buy them out.
He's such an og. He doesn't need to work but does n you can tell he still has the hustler energy. Losing 700k is likely not going to affect him financially but he really took the loss heavy
Yes, he’s 100 percent an OG no doubt about that but he came home from prison broke and ABSOLUTELY needs to make moves like he’s trying to do and isn’t set by any means smh cold game
Well this is actually a good thing because it allows black market dealers to compete with dispensaries really effectively. People can now afford to smoke the amounts they want to.
@@larenzowesley30 🎯 seen it here as competition increased & prices decreased. They still got to get lab-tested for bacteria & mold, but the actual bud quality is drastically down in the majority of the dispensaries in my city. The only ones who _haven’t_ lowered in quality at all, are the ones still charging $35-$45 per 1/8 and they only get away with it because they was first ones opened & still have a lot of customers who willing to pay more for med grade
Nothing new just a different day. Same thing happened with coke, also why would you out a building near a homeless camp and not have security there.. Not smart.
There used to be an insane amount of money in coke, ecstacy, and ketamine. Recent enough history that saying the numbers and years makes it sound like a lie. People buying ecstacy at 25¢ - $1 a pill and selling at $5-$25 a pill...
Rick should look at this closed dispensary location in Lake Balboa on Victory and Woodley. Back when it was open I saw Zab Judah there. Structure just standing there advertising its purpose
I remember back in the 80s in the UK hash was around 2k a kilo. By the mid 90s hash was around £800 per kilo. Nobody wanted it. Everyone wanted Skunk that sent you nuts 😂
@@tyreesneedit’s fake. Anybody who smoked weed pre 2010 knows this. Only these new kids think it’s good weed. Sour kush and all the og weed that’s natural and not grown in a lab with pesticides is way. Better
Sheeit. In the illegal market, it’s hard to sell a P for $500! And that’s for bomb NorCal weed too smfh. Making weed legal ruined it for all the pot farmers
Supply and demand basic economics Look at the cigarette/tobacco industry. About 10 years ago I said weed would get sold at gas stations like Newport’s 🚬
@@Cuddy83 Demographics and sketchiness. He's probably the only black dude within a three mile radius operating a business and it's a low income residential area. It's not a dangerous area, just sketchy. Easy to believe homeless campers or neighborhood bangers got him plus it's just a area no one that doesn't live there goes to. He shudda did Sherman Oaks or Reseda, hell, Panorama City but. SUNLAND? That's like up there and waaay over there
@mid in America? I remember getting some brick stuff that was terrible. Yeah if u have a proper connection in Canada you’ll get amazing stuff for that price, America is like a coke habit with the prices
Happy that vlad giving him a platform for his business
Oh stop it. Vlad bleeped the name of his dispensary out at the very beginning of the interview
I need the name of the dispensary
He got the eyes of lil Duval 😂😂😂
"Hehe, a doit baby sticky baby!" Smile bitch!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂he look like him period a older version that been threw more shit
@Tenkbreeski 😂😂😂💯
He’s just borrowing them
😂😂😂😂
I'm thrilled to hear that Rick has opened a dispensary! Could you share the link to the location?
Me too
He should of said it feels like those big people are hypocrites
he said its in sun valley
@@Soloflavorwhat Sun Valley?
Armenians and Asians destroyed weed prices. Great for smokers but no point in selling black market
Asians did it 💯
Them Hmong packs been going for cheap since early 2000s, this isn't anything new.
The hood always needs weed I know people Alllllllllllll over Detroit still killing it. Just gotta be in the right spot amongst the right perps
10$ grams flying out barely open windows of houses making McDonald's look slow.
@ 💯 I’m n South Carolina
Just like Chinese chicken, it’s trash
Stopped smoking weed 6 weeks ago. Not turning back
L
Who cares square??..and I bet it's all you think and talk about too😂
you sound like a loser
I care! I’m stopping next year! I’m smoking right. Now only because I’m on vacation and took a trip to Dallas
I'm curious. Why did you stop smoking?
Each time I see a new video, it’s a treat!
Yep thats y i stopped sellin weed, market got too flooded. The amount u used to be able to make 100k off of now u make like 30-40k
I still take it..
Don't support the stores support your local hood! 💯
What if the store is in the hood? FOH 🤡! 😂🤣
@@MasterBamarahmad your store sells bush
Then it will go back to being fully illegal again. That's why we have to learn the importance of unity and group operations and have our own stores
@@bentleyrxtheonly6817 damn
@@mattycampy go to sleep
Legalization is what dropped the prices
Shiddd .. then explain why it’s MORE expensive now than it used to be .. even at the dispos the prices just keep creeping up… I personally don’t think it’s worth that type of money and should be WAYYY cheaper
@@JackSullivan-u6oblack market will always rule
@@JackSullivan-u6odispo in Detroit cheap oz going for $50
@@JackSullivan-u6owhere I am dispensaries are DIRT cheap
@@darnelldaughtrey3646black market too many easy corners to cut offsetting quality . weed is dirt cheap rn and dispos follow regulation to a degree, i think like ricky said it still hasn’t bottomed out and a lot of people are operating in the red currently. tbch if you aren’t already in the rec weed game black market or dispo doesn’t seem like much of a point/roi
Weeds been legal since 2018 shipped right to your door. Only true Cannabis smokers know this.
U act like this isn’t common knowledge
Weed has been Lawful the whole time it was illegal. Only TRUE Law Student's and Truth Seekers know this.
I think everyone should try and grow their own herb Indoor tents are a blessing.
Takes patience and a learning curve. I bought a book on how to grow. Taught me a lot ! Best thing I learned is don’t overwater.
@@betonblack3621you don’t need a book Brody lol you could of went to a hydroponic store and they would of taught you everything for free you wasted money on that book
@@Rerollfulno he didn’t you can never learn enough with growing plants there’s always something new to learn.
@@bigolglock2568that’s a dumbazz comment he made above 😂
@@Rerollful nah you need learned experience. Something someone can’t teach you in a 5 minute convo. I already know you’ve never grown with that statement. How you gonna tell me about me ?! lol the internet Man 🙄
as a legal grow owner in michigan... I wish it was still 1k a pound... we've seen prices for our indoor hit 700, and outdoor , tested, only $150.........
Damn
@@quanbrooklynkid7776 riggght... I remember as the user paying 400 a ounce... fck me both ways lol
That owner literally sent those homeless people to robbed you and collect the insurance money and kick you out
I just left a grow house in Colorado. Them guys have been operating in the red for 8 years, "since they've opened". They owe their investors millions.... one of the many reasons I left....
Where they at and what’s the pound price
What's the telegram?
@drracodraco8635 ha
This the realest shit i ever witnessed prices went from 2k-3200 to 500-1200 😂😂😂🤧
2021 was the end of greatness and we didn't even realize it....
Prices are the same, there’s just way more cheap weed now. I’m still paying 2000-3000 for the super fire, but paying $900 for the stuff that LOOKS fire but isn’t
@ yeah no doubt it really all just depends on what you are grabbing, who its from, and where youre located, u know.
@@poptartkilla3718 prices are not the same. A real pack of top shelf used to go for 1600 ABQ NM. They go for 12 now. Prices dropped. But I agree w u that there is A LOT more cheap weed out there. 500-700 packs so many options.
@@JohnWayne-p2hnah by 2019 prices were finished
Met Freeway Ricky in Burbank, cool ass guy, met him at a taco joint.
0:44 He has given him 2x to shout out his weed business ‐damn
Weed has gone lower and lower in price with inflation going higher and higher.
Thca
Exactly 😢the money is not the same as it was from just a few years ago
Freeway Never sounds like the smartest guy
I am glad for your success! Everyone is trying to reach that level of achievement but it’s trials and tribulations , mental flexibility
Gil and Freeway are not lying. The whole game is fucked
An old GQ article from '16 or '17 titled "The Great Pot Monopoly" talks about how there is a group of investors that are patenting strains that they didnt even create to essentially future proof their profit margins like they're Monsanto of the weed business
Seems like a grower could get around that pretty easy though lol by just giving it a new name. I doubt these investors are running through every spot in the legal world doing genetic tests to make sure nobody is growing them without paying up, right?
@joojoobaw They are plus it's shell companies owning shell companies but read the article if you wanna actually be informed.
@@joojoobawnot that simple, it’s not about branding. Plants have DNA like humans. That what the diffrent strains is about.
@@ChangWufei That’s insane lol that’s a lot of grows to run through doing genetic tests. I will tho! Appreciate the heads up
@@joojoobaw They aren't just regular patents either. They're Utility Patents.
Weed is so cheap in the US. Here in Scandinavia we pay $3500~6000 for a kilo. Usually hash is cheaper than weed and the quality isn’t the best. I’d rate the weed I got now a 6-7 of 10 but it’s probably a autoflower by the looks, smell and high.
Interesting…….. ✈️
Bro there’s lbs for $500 over here 😭😭😭
Sounds like she needs a plug ✋🏽✋🏽 lol
Telegram?
@@LsxSosaeven less. Upstate NY we got pounds for $300, cheapest shit you can get. Exotics up to the $1200-$1600 range for a p
That $300 pound could make a killin tho
I been saying this the war in drugs is not a war on drugs it’s a war on the people
Man freeway is so honest. I got big respect for dude
The landlord might have set that motion up.
Every time I went his shop was Closed. Sun Valley ain't close to me. 3 times now morning noon and night
Damn...
In Michigan there are ounces cheaper than double date at Applebee's with a coupon. No money. Just multi state operations holding on till really big companies can buy them out.
Big businesses are going to ruin it. But I hope not.
Yea @@tombondcrispy6585
Vald, so what you wanna talk about ? Rick, I'll just make it up as we go along.
He's such an og. He doesn't need to work but does n you can tell he still has the hustler energy. Losing 700k is likely not going to affect him financially but he really took the loss heavy
Yes, he’s 100 percent an OG no doubt about that but he came home from prison broke and ABSOLUTELY needs to make moves like he’s trying to do and isn’t set by any means smh cold game
^^^^
I’m pissed how he keeps getting screwed over
Well this is actually a good thing because it allows black market dealers to compete with dispensaries really effectively. People can now afford to smoke the amounts they want to.
Yes
Weed ain’t a necessity. Not entitled to prices. If you were struggling to pay for the amount you wanted, you shouldn’t be smoking.
No it just makes more room for bad products price drop means inferior ingredients to produce the products
@trapstar2012 weed been around longer than u. It's free to grow weed dont cost alot guy
@@larenzowesley30 🎯 seen it here as competition increased & prices decreased. They still got to get lab-tested for bacteria & mold, but the actual bud quality is drastically down in the majority of the dispensaries in my city.
The only ones who _haven’t_ lowered in quality at all, are the ones still charging $35-$45 per 1/8
and they only get away with it because they was first ones opened & still have a lot of customers who willing to pay more for med grade
You are not a convicted felon you destroyer of community not someone else’s but your own n still drug dealing , great job.
No
This reminds me of that ‘Weeds’ episode where the Armenians had like 6 grow houses all in the same neighborhood. I guess that was real talk.
You on it......that show pretended to be comedy, but they low key laid the whole trajectory of the business out
@@laterrydorsey303 that's crazy
Vlad is doing this via video chat! This man has a fix on the game 😬
Is it just me or does it feel like djvlad low key was callknh ricky out for not really having his own owned retail dispensary??
Astute. SPOT ON!
Yup...
Why everybody do Ricky Ross dirty. Smh
It's sad but it's hard to be a genuinely nice guy swimming in a shark tank where most people only understand violence
@@DyllanNoRegretswell put
Because his eyes are bigger than his pockets
@@CaptainInsaino😂😂😂😂☠️
@@DyllanNoRegrets yea
Makes me so happy seeing Freeway with his own weed brand 😭😭😭😭😭🤣🤣omg
Wait so he doesn’t do live interviews shit makes no sense
Don’t open a grow operation with a bunch of copper within close proximity to a homeless camp in LA without great security.
Weed has always been overpriced.
Na u mean u always get over charged😂
@@Deeman-212Oms 😂😂
@@Deeman-212🤣
Nothing new just a different day. Same thing happened with coke, also why would you out a building near a homeless camp and not have security there.. Not smart.
There used to be an insane amount of money in coke, ecstacy, and ketamine. Recent enough history that saying the numbers and years makes it sound like a lie.
People buying ecstacy at 25¢ - $1 a pill and selling at $5-$25 a pill...
@@MrColdwilliam damn
he messed up a chance to drop the location and vlad gave me many tries
Damn
Why didnt you have an alarm system on the building
Making weed legal was the worst thing that ever happened.
Tf no it wasnt
@@joshuamayfield9501 yes it was, everyone and they grandma selling bullshit now.
No it wasn't u Idiot!😂
@amoebahunter U gotta have sumbody u trust lol
@@amoebahunterDon’t mean you have to be a return customer. Shop the market.
Never stopped smoking
Bro you should've been got with 50 Cent you life story is definitely a mini series or 4-6 seasons show!
Imagine vlad doesn't even his guests that he's not gonna be at the interview himself, guests turn up in a room and there's vlad on the screen 😂
The landlord had something to do with the theft he should really look into that
Na sounds like he had something to do with it
Rick should look at this closed dispensary location in Lake Balboa on Victory and Woodley. Back when it was open I saw Zab Judah there. Structure just standing there advertising its purpose
Shout out to Green Dragon North Hollywood my 1st place I started with clones great genetics
You were just in Columbus did you leave any of your strains
Where can I find the cheapest weed
Cali, Colorado or Oklahoma!
@bigcube501 tap in point me in the right direction
@@bigcube501if he wants cheap bs go to oklahoma
Freeway told us About Armenians and the w**d business in a Vlad interview awhile back
Shit the TV show WEEDS told us years ago...that show predicted the whole market
..
Support your local dealer, not these stores 😅
Over saturation devalues any product'
The higher ups knew wut they were doin when the legalized it,smh
Store weed sucks. It’s still 3k for real fire that you can’t get in a store.
I remember back in the 80s in the UK hash was around 2k a kilo. By the mid 90s hash was around £800 per kilo. Nobody wanted it. Everyone wanted Skunk that sent you nuts 😂
Weed is so bad now I stop smoking
Cuz u buy trash weed 😂
why is it bad now? I stopped 6 years ago. used to live in Harlem also during the haze and sour days. early 2000's was FIRE.
@@tyreesneedit’s fake. Anybody who smoked weed pre 2010 knows this. Only these new kids think it’s good weed. Sour kush and all the og weed that’s natural and not grown in a lab with pesticides is way. Better
@@Deeman-212I bet you wasn’t smoking weed pre 2010 and before it became cool
He wasn't he a kid born after 90s@@killaB215
He's right weed is cheap nowadays. When I was growing up a pound would run you 3500 to 4k now it's more than half tht
I’m 6 hours sober. Like this for support
The weed business is over saturated… legally and illegally
Damn
3 million a month seems like a stretch…
Yea
Lil duval uncle😂😂😂
He got fast eyes. Signs of a real criminal that thinks a lot. His mind got him rich and he's had to have a quick eye all of his life.
Need to have at least three dispensaries to be successful. Labor costs eat heavy into store profits
People ball and fall.... U wanna be a boss.... U gotta take a lose like a boss.... Free Ricky....
Freeway say he owned it then they kicked him out
Sheeit. In the illegal market, it’s hard to sell a P for $500! And that’s for bomb NorCal weed too smfh. Making weed legal ruined it for all the pot farmers
Got to find a good out of towner
@ fasho
Thca messed up everything
Depends how good the weed is.
Used to sell lbs for over 4k once it went under 3k had to stop with that shit
calling the cops on you right now. You better hope the statue of limitations have run out
No one cares boy
do you happen to be 400 pounds and wear glasses and from groove st gang?
@vdanman I’ve lost some weight now
You can buy some top self weed in Cali for 500-1000…. Weed game water down
Where
That’s not top shelf but yeah can get good work 1400-1600
@ that’s normal price .. I’ve seen them 800 as low as 500 .. yea top shelf
If you know where to get them
Yo let me get that plug.
Legalise coke now aswell. That'd be fantastic.😎💯👌
you should've put his actual name dude you playin let it be known the real is back
Drug game is shady
Supply and demand basic economics
Look at the cigarette/tobacco industry. About 10 years ago I said weed would get sold at gas stations like Newport’s 🚬
$500 for indoor now middle men eat up
Dude’s face looks like a bad drawing with colour pencils. ✏️ 😂
Sun Valley is an odd place for dude to have a weed spot.
Exactly what I was thinking
I’m from the east coast. Why is it an odd place?
@@Cuddy83cause it's white folks😂
@@Cuddy83 Demographics and sketchiness. He's probably the only black dude within a three mile radius operating a business and it's a low income residential area. It's not a dangerous area, just sketchy. Easy to believe homeless campers or neighborhood bangers got him plus it's just a area no one that doesn't live there goes to. He shudda did Sherman Oaks or Reseda, hell, Panorama City but. SUNLAND? That's like up there and waaay over there
Or Van Nuys, literally where he's interviewing at
Squatters took over his trap 😂
Freeway Rick Ross - An opportunity seeker.
They let anybody grow in cali. Don’t get sold mold
The Armenians are using the Amazon Jeff besos philosophy.
Yep
So the producer made a part 6...lolol
You can only get 800$ an elbow for AAA flower in Colorado.
deps 👎🏾
Bunch of outdoor huff
Vlad..ain’t THERE…he be ZOOMING 😂. Y’all..!!!
Vlads not even interviewing in person. Smh
Vlad bouta get bro shit raided 😂
The reason the weed going for so low is because it’s trash
That as well...
@ I miss the sour and kush days. But Girl Scout cookies, white widow and blue dream used to be fire
Rick has endless stories of being swindled. Almost as if he's making shit up...
He has a legitimate weed dispensary business and social media for all to see. Where is the lie?
@@DiewMarial damn
The copper was worth more than the weed. Shame
Didn't wanna pay a security gaurd
Weed will eventually get to the point where they will be given out like salt packets
Right. U want some weed with those fries?
Ya sounds like the landlord set u up with the fail safe plan
He like dame dash
Won’t name it ? Doesn’t have it ?
Damn in Canada shit is like 500 4 1
its mid too, its at guv dispos and guv dispos in canada require them to radiate the cannabis before sale as well. bunk
@mid in America? I remember getting some brick stuff that was terrible. Yeah if u have a proper connection in Canada you’ll get amazing stuff for that price, America is like a coke habit with the prices
@@MindingMyBusinessMMBfacts you get what you pay for. They smoking straight boof
Damn
Damn I felt like he lied the whole 5 mins