, federal agents have been investigating an illegal growing operation in the state since 2017. During the course of the investigation, authorities have seized over one thousand plants, approximately 400 pounds of processed marijuana and in excess of $250,000.
After properties were raided in the Vancouver, Washington area, state troopers and Vancouver police netted around 950 marijuana plants, 50 pounds of processed pot, three vehicles and three guns. One of the four men arrested in the raids allegedly sold pot by the pound on the street for $700,Right now, medical marijuana is legal in 33 states while recreational marijuana is legal in 11 states. Yet, even in those states, black market marijuana is big business.
"If you're a consumer and you can go somewhere and get 40 percent less price for what they think is the same product, you're going to go there," said the Executive Vice President of Project Cannabis, Cameron Wald.Confusion between legalization and decriminalization may also lead to people buying weed illegally, thinking they won't get in trouble.
Where marijuana has been legalized, consumers cannot receive a citation, be convicted or arrested for using the drug. That is dependent on state laws, saysDecriminalization, on the other hand, means that consumers may still be arrested, pursuant to state laws, depending on the amount of marijuana they possess.
People gotta have their smoke
Pot should be legalized in the USA at the Federal Level 🇺🇸
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This just in, there are absolutely no moonshiners in the USA.
Of course we all knew this would happen when they added the 30% tax at dispensaries. Government gets their hands on everything and messes it up
Smhhh
Cops need to do real work and leave peeps growing house plants alone. We got meth heads and rapists out there, and you're worried about an herb. Lazy cops can't take on REAL crims.
Government weed is not the same as weed grown out the ground. Just like cigarettes and alcohol they want people to buy their chemically laced laboratory experiment weed that’s over priced. All this is, is a work around to leave millions of people in jail while they take their job
I mean, what's the point of selling black market stuff if you can get a job selling the legal stuff?
It should be completely legal to grow, smoked, ingest, or rub on your body like an herbal butter. Make it illegal to sell with the exception of business designated to sell. I can’t even smoke it, yet I know it should be 100 percent legal.
No shit. State governments tax the shit out of it so a black market will always thrive
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