Opinion: Can California's legal cannabis industry survive while illegal competitors still operate? [Opinion]
on the five authorized cannabis stores in unincorporated areas. Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, also wants to help the industry by legalizing the sale of food and nonalcoholic beverages at cannabis retailers and lounges.It’s a tall order. As long as illegal cannabis products cost half as much as legal ones — aslast year by UC Davis economists Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner — they will dominate sales.
Legal shops in California clearly need a more level playing field to thrive. Given that most illegal sellers advertise their services, authorities have a blueprint for an effective crackdown. But the longer that doesn’t really materialize statewide, the less likely lawmakers who aren’t enamored of a law-and-order agenda will be to pursue it. California will never “substantially address” the black market as a result.
Five years ago, Newsom said he felt “a deep sense of responsibility” to make sure Proposition 64 worked well. It’s time for him to demonstrate that.
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