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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I didn’t call legalization a failure. I supported it then and I support it now. Though it certainly has been a disappointment by all of the metrics touted at the outset, from the size of the black market to government revenues to the sales figures and valuations of the commercial players. Anyone who has followed the issue at all recognizes that.
The assumptions many Canadians (and most posters on this forum - go back and check) made about the black market for pot going away proved wrong. And assumptions we make about safe supply may prove wrong as well, and for similar reasons: Because users don’t behave the way we expect them to behave, and the black market is incredibly entrenched and efficient.
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Actually the legal weed industry is slowly killing the black market, it has massively reduced the money anyone can make from weed, the real problem for legal weed is not taxes, its the reduced 'quality' of the product due to lack of freshness, with the delivary option coming in in BC I see dealers getting all but shut out in the next decade