Legalization Won't Stop Black Market Sales
Lawmakers have consistently repeated the promise that the point of legalization is to take sales away from the black market. But again and again, despite their efforts to bring a crony, highly regulated "legalized" market to the people, the people have repeatedly shown that they'd rather support the black market.
Even with the risk that allegedly comes along with that, from not knowing exactly what is in their products, because they aren't purchasing highly regulated items that have been processed through this web of scrutiny for their "safety". In many circumstances, they have shown that they are willing to take that risk, they'd rather spend their money elsewhere.
Right now, California is known to have the biggest legal market, and the black market is even bigger.
Canadians have also shown that they would rather buy black market products, despite the recent changes to the cannabis market, which many might tell you have truly made things worse for consumers in a variety of ways.
If you are looking for good quality, variety, and prices, then the last thing you need to do is get a highly intricate government web of violence involved in the marketplace.
When we do, we should not be surprised when we are left with unappealing and unsatisfactory results.
The reasons that millions of people continue to go back to their favorite black market dealers are varied, including dislike for paying taxes on the products and wanting to get a cheaper price, limited options at the dispensary, poor quality products, and convenience.
It's estimated that the legal cannabis market might reach $30 billion or more by 2023, but if you include black market demand it's estimated to be closer to $55 billion in the United States.
#blackmarketsmatter
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Good post. Good point made.
Even Chronixx said that extracting CBD/parts
of the plant is wrong. The plant should be used
holistic...
Babylons weed sucks ;)
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I could not imagine that in countries where you can legally buy delicious buds, there is still an illegal market. Interesting to become, thanks.
There would be no black market if they would just allow anyone to sell it. Being Canadian, it seems like most people who are using the government as their new pot dealer are the ones who were too scared to buy it when it was "illegal". Everyone else who was using it the whole time just carried on as normal, but were able to relax a little more and probably don't have paranoia as a side effect anymore.
Government needs to decriminalize all of its arbitrary prohibitions and just back away, not wrap liberty with red tape and call it freedom.
Yeah, cause it is not really legal yet... all this talk about legal and illegal shows, that it just is a business becoming bigger... that's all so ridiculous! Hahaha