When people say things such as 80% of marijuana purchases are on the black market, how are they getting data for this?

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When people say things such as 80% of marijuana purchases are on the black market, how are they getting data for this?

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Sorry I’ll dumb it down further. They know how much weed is sold online. They know how much is smuggled across the borders. They know about how much is sold legally because it’s ridiculously easy to monitor sales of legal weed. If they have an approximate volume of sold vs. Known or average consumption of a population, then it’s pretty easy math… I’m not saying they’re correct. Odds are that number is pulled from the Aether..