Having lived around the region for a couple of years, I can say that three-quarters of the adult population on the east side of DC are at least once-a-week smokers. It really doesn’t change anything to say it’s suddenly legal. The challenge here....after you make it legal, and a guy puts up a store-front...to suddenly find out that with expenses and taxes...it’s NOT profitable. The street guy still wins.
Isn’t that what is happening in Colorado, that they are not pulling in nearly what they expected in terms of taxes from the sale or pot?
Pot vending machines with EBT card access. Problem solved.
I finally let my curiosity get the best of me and visited a local pot store and its not like walking into a 7-11.
Just in the 30 or minutes I was there I saw at least $1,000 in sales. I was amazed at the clientele was a even split between classic stoners and regular looking folks. My point is it was a pretty steady stream of people going in to legally purchase weed.