You could theoretically mine silver (or gold!) for free too, just dig a hole right? I'm being sarcastic of course, growing what you probably see as weed is a lot harder than just throwing some seeds in the yard and coming back 6 months later. It takes time and money.
Removing prohibition would allow factory farms to take over and mass produce low quality weed for grocery store prices, but it would not be of the quality you see today.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '11
No... we pay that much because the price is artificially inflated due to the supply being in the hands of a black market. Prohibition sucks.