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[–] DrPenguin 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Sounds like a government funded cartel.

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[–] Hand_of_Node ago 

Sales used to be $14 billion...

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[–] capnflummox 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Oh gee... Who could have foreseen this event?

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[–] Ghetto_Shitlord ago 

Anyone, there is always a black market, best to not try any new shit then, right? /s

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[–] Broc_Lia [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Black markets only really flourish when regs and taxes get so out of hand that the potential profits from operating a business outside of the law outweigh the risks.

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[–] Pattern_Blind 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The “black market” is local mom and pops that are legal citizens also with medical cards selling off their extra. You can grow one plant 20 feet tall if you do it right with long hot summers and dry falls, your crop will not face bad mold issues and can produce large amounts of weed off one plant. Bonus if you do it organically with no pesticides because smokers can smoke your stuff all day long, no headaches and or sore throat/lung issues.

Remember those growers are still California citizens and pay taxes in one form or another and the cost of living in California is astronomical. Many of these black market grows are just getting by, due to low weed prices and a over saturated market.

The next step will to be what the businesses tried in Washington State, No Legal Grows for Medical Patients. For safety reasons, or for medical reasons or what ever reason but the reason is if you get right down to it, it’s the business community arguing for more money and forced business promised by the government, or Fascism.

The weed in the stores that is dry, not very good and usually tastes bad due to chemicals use or bad/cheap state growers is usaully affordable, The kind of weed you want to smoke all day long for medical use or straight up addiction is unaffordable with taxes and regulations to the normal medical user. Thus the black market.

My really fascinating issue here is that the Govenor chooses which laws to enforce due to the business community. Ignoring illegal aliens breaking the law for the business community to get cheap labor for the “legal” pot farms but suddenly the laws matter and the National Gaurd is called out for moon shinners in the hills with actual farms that produce something and help their local depressed economy that is trying to compete with illegsl aliens taking their work.