Anyone over age 21 in California can now walk into a store and pick up some marijuana. After three months of legalized recreational cannabis sales, how is the industry doing?
To learn more, we tracked one product—the Kiva chocolate bar—up the supply chain, from seed to sale.
What we found was surprising: Cannabis entrepreneurs are anxious about the future of the legal market under California’s highly regulated and highly taxed system. Under these conditions, some industry insiders expect the black market will continue to thrive.
“The situation in the market is pretty dire,” says Kristi Knoblich Palmer, COO and co-founder of KIVA, which recently had to lay off employees for the first time in its history. “That has everything to do with the cost of cannabis to the end consumer.”
Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Camera by Alex Manning and Weissmueller.
https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/04/02/californias-new-recreational-marijuana-m
Commiefornia has ruined every good thing that has ever transpired within its borders, nothing ever changes, manipulation to the core, the sheeple follow right off the cliff. We already knew this was going to happen, it has, now we watch the article butchering continue.
Goddamn shame…
We continue to comment on this shit, seems pointless.
No tax on straight-up pot here.
But they tax the all other cannabis products… edibles, waxes, hash, and the vape-type ‘pens’ (WICKED at 81% THC!). It’s the ONLY sales tax I’ve ever come across here.
bast@rds