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Re:Medical Marijuana a Challenge for Legal Pot States by martinald on Saturday January 03, 2015 @02:55AM (#8830207)
Interesting. I'm not sure about the best approach to the 'medical' marijuana side when there is no actual prescribing guidelines that I can see. How can you crack down on it when there are no real rules?

I'm surprised that black market dealers still exist. Surely, medical marijuana is so easy to get that if you care about the price you get a card and go there? If not, go to one of the legal stores.

Why are the black market guys still in business? You very rarely see black market alcohol, for example.

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Re:Medical Marijuana a Challenge for Legal Pot States by nostromo on Saturday January 03, 2015 @03:11AM (#8830228)
In Seattle the legal market is about twice the cost of the black market.

Washington State put a ton of regulations in place with a lot of taxes, so it's much cheaper to ignore the legal stores and go medical or unregulated.

Also, the black market offers a lot of services the legal market can't -- like delivery.

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