Sticker shock coming with California’s new pot market
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Donnie Anderson, a Los Angeles medical cultivator, retailer and co-owner of Western Caregivers dispensary poses for at one of his dispensary’s in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES >> Consumers eager for the coming of California’s legal recreational marijuana market should be ready for sticker shock.
An array of new taxes and fees will be attached to pot sales next year, driving up prices.
For example, a small bag of good-quality medical marijuana in Los Angeles now runs about $35.
But in the legal recreational market next year, industry experts say the same amount is expected to ring up at the retail counter for $50 or $60.
At the high end, that’s a 70 percent boost.
Medical pot purchases are expected to jump in price too, but not as steeply.
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Some fear bargain-hunting consumers will turn to the black market, undercutting efforts to establish the legal one.
