Legal versus illegal sales of marijuana

Post date: 2024-03-22 01:35:00

Watching The Gentlemen (TV series on Netflix), where the plot involves huge amounts of money being made from marijuana growing in UK, I started to wonder about states in the US where recreational weed has been decriminalized, and how the dynamic of buying and dealing may have changed.

I've tried Googling for information about this particular question but haven't come up with much, so here goes:

If you had been selling weed before, how would legalization have affected your career? Did growing and/or selling pot illegally suddenly become not worth the trouble anymore? Does the answer vary from state to state? For instance in Illinois, prices for recreational weed are very high compared to other states, and the selection widely said to be not great either. So is the situation different here than in a state like Michigan, where the legal supply and prices seem to be better?

I would love either anecdotal or scholarly answers to this question. Thanks!

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