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Wes Mantooth · 03-27-2010, 01:06 AM

I don't know, in my experience pot is pretty readily available to children right now, I don't think I've ever heard of a dealer who wants ID before a purchase or really cares one bit about how old a customer is. If a child knows how to get it, they can get it. Really would there even be a large enough market of pot smoking 5th graders to keep the illegal drug trade wealthy and competing with corporations for a piece of the pie?

Once pot winds up in stores produced by wealthy companies who can grow a damn good plant the street value of "illegal weed" will become pretty much worthless. Very similar to tobacco and alcohol...both could be sold on the black market but the demand for bootlegged hooch and smokes simply doesn't exist, its too easy to purchase legally at a fair price and of good quality. There is NO way anybody working the black market would ever try to compete with that, they'd simply turn their attention to and up the production of other illegal drugs.

Honestly the last thing I would worry about if marijuana is legalized is how the black market would react. If it does become a problem we can always toss some of the billions of dollars we waste fighting pot to stamp out the new child selling pot pushers.

03-27-2010, 01:06 AM	#56 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	I don't know, in my experience pot is pretty readily available to children right now, I don't think I've ever heard of a dealer who wants ID before a purchase or really cares one bit about how old a customer is. If a child knows how to get it, they can get it. Really would there even be a large enough market of pot smoking 5th graders to keep the illegal drug trade wealthy and competing with corporations for a piece of the pie? Once pot winds up in stores produced by wealthy companies who can grow a damn good plant the street value of "illegal weed" will become pretty much worthless. Very similar to tobacco and alcohol...both could be sold on the black market but the demand for bootlegged hooch and smokes simply doesn't exist, its too easy to purchase legally at a fair price and of good quality. There is NO way anybody working the black market would ever try to compete with that, they'd simply turn their attention to and up the production of other illegal drugs. Honestly the last thing I would worry about if marijuana is legalized is how the black market would react. If it does become a problem we can always toss some of the billions of dollars we waste fighting pot to stamp out the new child selling pot pushers. __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”