Rodney

If you're actually in southern California, your supply is better and cheaper than in other areas where it's either imported long distances or grown hydroponically in warehouses or large, rented homes. Where I am, central coast college town, it's so easy to get marijuana, from so many people, that I've got to believe competition has kept the price lower than, other areas. Not that I've ever bought any here, or anywhere in the last 20 years. But we have illegals growing marijuana on covert plots up in the mountains for the Mexican Mafia, we've got the indoor hydroponics operations also, and a good many people grow their own in closets or the back yard and give away the extra. Yes, there's a lot of demand, but there's also a lot of supply.

Of course, back in the antediluvial days when I smoked, a lid (1 oz) cost ten bucks. But a) if you compensate for inflation, that's more like 40 or 50 bucks, and b) it was mostly low-grade, imported from Mexico. Suitable for high school students, which we were. But the potency of marijuana has really been enhanced by the growers of the last few decades. The last joint I took a few puffs off, maybe 10 years ago, made the whole world flicker, like the sun was strobing on and off. Definitely not your father's marijuana.

All that said, I do consider marijuana a waste of time. Although I do know folks who use it to fight side-effects of chemo, glaucoma, and certain other conditions, and I believe that, if it works for them, they should be able to get it without risking problems with the law.