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Presumably, the legal product will drive down the price of black market product. If the only reason to buy it illegally is price, then there better be a signifi

• DanBC 12y ago
  > If the only reason to buy it illegally is price, then there better be a significant discount. Yes, in the GP quote the discount is 30%. > Putting pressure on the dealers could lead to nasty shit happening (diversification into other products and services, or hostile competition) in the mid term. Yes. This was a problem with limited decriminalisation experiments with parts of London (UK) - criminal gangs flooded regions where cannabis was decriminalised; and the rest of the chain of production and distribution was still illegal so minor decriminalisation did not stop people being trafficked into the UK and forced to grow cannabis.