“so we pricing out people who can use it for legit medical purposes.”
Pricing is about $12 per gram, same as it has always been. The difference is the 21.5% State sales tax now applied to pot.
I’d say for the price, losing the risk of going to jail, reducing the massive taxpayer costs for prisons, cops, and SWAT teams, must be well worth it.
A significant benefit to Colorado is that the Mexican cartels are gone. Gone. Poof. Overnight. The government doesn’t like to talk about that as it cuts into their empire of “law enforcement”. The Mexican cartels cannot compete with legal pot much less legal pot that has been tested to be free of disease and pure in form. Mexican pot is stems and seeds and full of garbage like pesticides. The pot sold in Colorado must be tested for purity. The reducing in crime has been the main benefit here and no one talks much about it.
You bring up something that I' really like to see some studies done on once this has been in place for a while. Should be really interesting.