[RetiredTexasVet]

With all the taxes and bribes required, it is still cheaper to go to the neighborhood drug dealer for the stuff. A little competition in the drug industry generally initiates a little pushback.

[Boogieman]

“it is still cheaper to go to the neighborhood drug dealer”

The neighborhood dealer also won’t make you place an order online ahead of time, wait for a confirmation, stand in line, wear a mask and observe social distancing guidelines while trying to get your product. Hell, half of them will come deliver it.

[dainbramaged]

it is still cheaper to go to the neighborhood drug dealer
With all the competition and unbelievable variety of products in states where pot is legal, that is simply not true. Opening a weed shop here in Washington State is a license to print money - I've seen duffel bags full of $100 bills come out of the store I patronize, which is run by now wealthy conservatives.

[Vermont Lt]

Here in MA you can grow your own. One tent and a decent light—you can grow more than you would ever smoke. You can give it away, 1 Oz at a time. As a “gift.”

And the idiots still drive around with bales in their cars.

You cannot make it much easier than that.