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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The black market is going to crumble based on the current look of legalisation, and every grower or distributor are not idiots, they know the industry, they know what’s coming, and they’ve prepared to enter an industry with a lot of unknowns (and are primed to adapt).
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Sorry, I put more stock in the predictions of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, the RCMP, the OPP, the C.D. Howe Institute, the Canadian parliamentary committee on marijuana legalization, Ontario's attorney general, the federal health minister, the federal Department of Public Safety, B.C.'s provincial-municipal committee in charge of crafting the province's cannabis rules, the Cannabis Trade Alliance of Canada, the editor of the BCMI Report on the marijuana market, the CEOs for several of Canada's largest legal marijuana providers, who all say the black market will persist in Canada after legalization.
I'm always amazed at people who will take 15 minutes to post arguments about a subject, but won't take 5 minutes to read a couple stories about that same subject to increase their knowledge.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Please, just look deeper into the industry and legalisation precedents before continuing this ridiculous assertion that the black market is going to last, and that “Terry” is impervious to the juggernaut of business disruption that is legalisation of a black market.
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I never made the claim the black market is impervious to business disruption. I'm just pointing out the consensus of experts that the black market will still continue to have a large share of the pot business in Canada once it's legalized.
And if you want precedence, how about the precedence of pot legalization in Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, where studies put the black market share of consumption at 51, 49, and 27 per cent, respectively.