As a long term pot smoker, I was disappointed when weed was legalised in California because the price didn’t go down at all.
If you can grow at home it’s good. Otherwise it’s business as usual, with just a change of franchisee.
If you can grow at home it’s good. Otherwise it’s business as usual, with just a change of franchisee.
And clients of the business went from consuming unregulated products from potentially unscrupulous suppliers to high quality and domestically produced product.
It's a very simple plant to grow ideally. For a large industrial operation that is under no concern for law enforcement, run as a normal business, it's pretty easy and cheap to do things as optimally as possible.
The quality of the legal weed here is far lower than the grey market or black market weed available and more expensive. You also used to have the ability to at least see your product before buying it, not any more.
I think more states should consider what DC has done. They’ve created a grey market where growing and distribution are still controlled by small businesses. The businesses can get lab testing done to show the purity of their products and many consumers expect this, but it isn’t required.
Although, I'm not sure it's the best thing for society to have too much cheap, high quality weed around. It's complicated.
I would like to see the artificially high revenue/taxes put to good social purposes.
In the longer term it'll sort itself out, but don't hold your breath.