Actually, a friend-of-a-friend spoke with a pot-head at a party a couple of months ago. We live just a few miles from the border of Mexico and the pot-heads refuse to smoke Mexican weed, although it’s cheap and plentiful here. It’s considered low quality and (believe it or not) they don’t like the pesticides.
Apparently, there’s a sweet-spot where the consumer is willing to pay the price for good drugs. Plus, they would prefer to do drugs legally and are wiling to pay a bit more to so so.
If you look at the situation with cigarettes, you’ll see that there’s a point where the price for legal items is just too high. Then the bootlegging starts again.
The trick for impacting the drug trade is for our government to not get too greedy. (I know, I know.. we’ve already lost.)
Yeah, I was in Trump Plaza the other day. Cigarette machines were there. $13.50 a pack.