Heavy use and high potency commercialized marijuana are real dangers of pot commercialization. Already this latest addiction for profit industry is proved to follow the others: 80% of sales come from 20% of daily chronic users. And as prices inevitably collapse with over supply, so do the tax revenues leaving insufficient funding for health services, regulation, enforcement and prevention.

This is unprecedented — a side effect of pot commercialization: much more heavy use of a much more potent drug.

This pot market takes on a life of its own. It quickly slips out of control. Agricultural economics and commodity market stampedes.

• supply goes up
• prices plummet
• a glut of product results
• cheap excess drug gets pushed onto new consumers
• potency is driven up as producers try to differentiate their products
• more people use more potent pot more often
• predictable health and mental health consequences

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