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"We paid $30 an ounce for Columbian Gold. Some people can't see the obvious problem. That's like buying Johnny Walker Blue Label as your everyday Scotch."

Where I live commercial grade pot goes from anywhere from $50 an ounce to $120 an ounce from what my clients tell me and from what I hear narcotics officers saying. The really strong stuff grown indoors with "trade names" like "Northern Lights," "Blueberry," "Bubblegum," and so on can cost as much as $120 per quarter ounce here but it doesn't appear that many people are buying it. I've seen an awful lot of pot brought to court by police in little clear evidence bags and it's almost always regular cheap Mexican, the compressed looking brownish buds with seeds, as opposed to fluffy seedless buds with a pungent smell that cost much more. I don't think most people are paying so much for pot. High earning executives might splurge on the high dollar stuff but the average Joe smokes cheapo Mexican for the most part.

The lion's share of the thousands of tons of marijuana seized in this country every year is cheap Mexican brickweed. Government estimates are that Mexican accounts for as much as 95% of the marijuana available on the market in this country. I'm on a major interstate highway and our public defender office gets several new drug mule cases every moth it seems. We handle several thousand pounds worth of these cases every year. For every load that gets popped you know several more are getting through. It's incredible how much pot is available on the streets. Government estimates say there may be over 20,000 metric tons available on the streets after they get done busting people and seizing what they are going to seize in a given year. The government will never stop the flow of pot in this country. They'd have more control over it if they just legalized it and regulated the industry.