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by phone8675309 1057 days ago
I wonder what the impact of cannabis being illegal federally has on this sort of thing.

A lot of people went from drinking beer and wine when Prohibition was first enacted in the US and moved to liquor. This happened because many of the speakeasies would rather have a given volume of liquor versus beer because they can serve more customers and there is less of a concern about your product being large and conspicuous.

With illicit drugs you often find the producers making the drugs more and more concentrated so they can move more product in a smaller volume and then step on it to make up the bulk later down the supply chain.

It would make sense to me that dispensaries would be more interested in buying and receiving higher THC product because they can either do more with less or they can have customers come in less often and serve more of them.

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MAJOR impact.

People are only aware of what they can put hands on in their locale.

It's basically the one thing I hope Amazon gets their way on (they're one of the bigger lobbyists for legalization).