The money quote:
California, which has a 15% sales tax on marijuana, has reaped over $4 billion in tax revenue since legalizing pot. It also collects money from retail licenses, which can cost $100,000 annually, taxes on growers, and local taxes which are in addition to the state levies. But legal cannabis companies complain that the state doesn’t do enough to crack down on the black market, allowing unfair competition to flourish.
The whole argument about legalizing drugs is that it would eliminate the illegal black market while creating a windfall for government. Yet this argument ignores basic human nature. Why would your wildcat grower in Humboldt county start giving a cut to the State of California? Of course black market growers and sellers are causing unfair competition for legal growers. Because they don't have government stealing $4 billion of their profits every year.
Liberals pushed this crap.
Liberals are idiots when it comes to economics.
Liberals are in denial regarding human nature.
And now liberals are stuck with it while the rest of society suffers.