Why Medical Marijuana in Colorado Is $25 an Eighth

In an epic article on the Business Insider, Walter Hickey tells the whole story about how Colorado medical marijuana patients can pay $25 for an eighth of an ounce of top-quality cannabis. I don’t take the word ‘epic’ lightly, in fact I hate to hear it, but this article is an absolute must-read for any medical marijuana patient or cannabis enthusiast.

Hickey walks you through the history of medical marijuana in Colorado, from the passage of Amendment 20 to the dawn (or explosion) of dispensaries, to what he calls ‘the great marijuana crash of 2011.’ From the ‘basement growers,’ who were sometimes legal caregivers and sometimes illegal growers, to the clashing of growers and retailers in 2010, when HB 1284 required dispensaries to grow 70% of their own product.

The only beef I have with the article is that there is no mention of the fact that a lot of great growers (ahem…) were cut out of the business for having a felony, even if that felony was for growing cannabis.