I think we’ve all bin there and dun that.
cf. The epic tale of “Pierre the Lobster”
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Ah yes, possibly the best food story I’ve ever read!
Going off on an LV tangent…
You should see how much weed is out there. There are dispensaries all over. The city hasn’t burned down or gone into chaos.
Old Phil is about to get this billed passed and it should be done in a month or two.
I’m going on a rant now… my town (Middletown) passed a law that says no dispensaries can exist. So likely most towns around me will rake in huge tax dollars. My town will continue to raise taxes year after year. Asbury will freaking rape the hell out of this and collect tons of money, yet my liberal hippy town can’t seem to find its way out of a paper bag.
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Oceanport passed the same law.
I can see that. There isn’t too much real estate there. In Middletown we have TONS of empty stores. So anyone who wants to smoke will just drive to the next town over and come back to town. It’s not rocket science but these morons can’t figure this out.
Fwiw, I’m don’t smoke but I’m for helping the bottom line of my town. People will get it locally so why not jump on the band wagon? Taxes are terrible here, along with a lot of Monmouth County.
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For you sir, the extra special oregano…
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Dis guyza cookina somethin up
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Amazing story. Would make a good scene in a movie!
CLAWS!! the movie.
NJR, alcohol sweating profusely, voice wavering:
Gulp… captain, we’re gonna need more clarified butter.
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Greg do you realize this is Jr’s own actual story? Lol
Maybe the food legend will chime in 
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Nope. @NotJrvedivici is too busy negoitiating the rights to the new herbal cuisine superstore and hometown buffet franchise for Ocean Co.
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It’s about to get pretty herbal here very soon
Start growing your dreads now
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I have a nephew who is a grower in Cali and he hates the legalization of it, killed his margins with taxes and NO more private sales. The Gov is all over his growths and his production etc.
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I’d like to be captain of the frisbee golf team. I’ll even bring my rusted root cd
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Not much to chime in about, the story is 100% true and just one of many drunken blunders I have made in life! Still here to talk about it though!
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Ok scratch philly from my must do list. Bourdain did make it look good but I doubt I would get anything as good as what he was served. Miss him!!
Man I have a really funny Frisbee golf story. Maybe I will tell it later lol.
Jr, I know a friend of a friend who was growing in CO for like a decade and he is basically out of business now. This dude travels with a SHOEBOX FULL OF MONEY in a backpack. That’s how much money he made. He’d drop several grand on a dinner and just pay for all of us. He always wore a backpack to carry the shoebox. I never understood why you need to have 5 figures on you at all times but that is how he rolled. Cool guy but kind of essentric.
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Everyone is going to try and get a piece of this action. The shitty part is this state will rake in millions of tax dollars and will you or I see any benefit in our lives? I doubt it.
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It’s an interesting conundrum.
The mob, which used to be prosecuted for illegal activities like rum running, prostitution, drugs and betting is getting out of those businesses and going legit.
And our government, which is run by idiots and is going broke, is getting into gambling and taxing the hell out of smokes, alcohol, and now weed to make ends meet.
Average cost of smokes is $6 a pack of which $1 is the federal excise, and $3 is state tax.
Sorta makes you wonder who the good guys are anymore.
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