Since this whole marijuana thing happened in Denver...

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by underEJ

I wonder if the aggressiveness you are seeing is because the street dealers are getting frozen out which can only be a good thing in the future.....maybe? As you can see, I'm not convinced, but I know prohibition doesn't work so I'm willing to see new ideas tried.

That's a really interesting theory. I'll be interested in seeing if it's true. I assumed it was just the more lax atmosphere.

As a "business", the street people have much lower cost, so unless their supply goes away they're going to be working at a huge advantage to the storefronts. And it seems to me like developing a supply isn't hard. So I guess the only advantage the storefronts have is that some people will prefer to be legal (within the context of getting someone to say they need "medical marijuana") and will pay more for that option. But the downside is that those people all have a history of illegal purchases, which presumably means they're not averse to buying it illegally.

I wonder how it's playing out in California, since it sounds like they're first in line as our perennial social experimentation laboratory.