NOPE...lol...the underground pot growers still control the market price...They don't respond well to competition and don't participate in tax policy and regulation...It would kill em with taxes
Do your own local DD...
So are you saying that underground growers will continue to sell at a lower price than the stores?
I am saying that at some point, prices will reach the bottom of this big decline they are on, and settle out.
Legal growers will start producing enough, and efficiently enough, that the price difference with underground (black market) suppliers will be basically the taxes and regulatory costs (Licenses, packaging, testing/inspections and such).
Big legal growers, like other modern farmers, will likely become more efficient than small operations are capable of.
Underground growers would have to consider the costs of getting caught (and having everything seized) as well as the tax savings. It might be easier to go legit - there is still good money in it.
Personal use growers (just a few plants) will probably always beat the store bought or underground prices.