"The good things we were promised aren't happening"

Trenton Sperry writes,

the cost of buying pot on the street is considerably lower than buying recreational marijuana legally.

The University of Northern Colorado student newspaper, The Mirror, reported this week that UNC students can buy an ounce of pot from street dealers for $150 to $200 as opposed to paying up to $600 for the same amount after taxes at a legal Garden City dispensary.

Although it’s still early by all accounts, Greeley Police Chief Jerry Garner said police are seeing few indications the black market has any intentions of backing down.

“One of the things that some of the proponents were telling us was when we legalize marijuana, that will dry up the black market, that will dry up the crooks that are out here growing it in the forest or growing it in the middle of a field. It will keep the cartel from bringing marijuana from Mexico to the United States, or at least to Colorado,” Garner said.

“We haven’t seen that happen yet.”

He added, “There are still illegal grows out here. There’s still cartel marijuana coming into Colorado. So some of the good things we were promised aren’t happening yet.”

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