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Illegal black-market alcohol is a negligible phenomenon, although it has no taxes and regulations and can be laced with other stuff. That's because the taxes and regs on alcohol are low enough to not overwhelm the economies of scale that only legal producers can enjoy - and because users of any drug are as a rule willing to pay at least a modest premium to get content-regulated product and stay on the right side of the law.

Hey, then why is there still a demand for illegal pot. Including states where pot is legal.

Because it's only been legal for a few years, and some states are overtaxing and overregulating - as has not happened with the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol.

I doubt that a user/buyer is concerned about “well regulated.”

Of course they are - those who drank bathtub gin during Prohibition switched to legal booze when Prohibition was wisely ended.

Maybe. But the people that I know who are using it are looking for the high. The more pure THC, the better. Heck, there is even “pure” THC that can be inhaled.

This is where legal pot wins if you call it a win.

The whole process of growing and processing are getting so refined that there are massive amounts of THC.

And this is all very new because never before did pot have 40% THC and so there is very little information about the affects of massive amounts of THC on the human body (brain, liver, kidneys, etc. organs).

More health information should be available in the near future and I predict that it will not be good. Too much of anything is not good. Heck, drinking 100% alcohol is not good for you.

If I were a grower or a producer I'd be prepared for the day when there are massive class action litigation against all entities involved. It will happen; guaranteed.