Stupidly high fees and requirements for production or sale licences, no real legal way to acquire initial stock, countless hoops to jump through and continuous fees, over top the exorbitant tax rates have made it fairly difficult for anyone without a lot of initial capital to even begin.
Despite the fact there was already and still is a thriving underground grey market that gets mostly left alone until somebody needs to be made an example of.
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Stupidly high fees and requirements for production or sale licences, no real legal way to acquire initial stock, countless hoops to jump through and continuous fees, over top the exorbitant tax rates have made it fairly difficult for anyone without a lot of initial capital to even begin.
Despite the fact there was already and still is a thriving underground grey market that gets mostly left alone until somebody needs to be made an example of.