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Is cannabis too lucrative to be illegal?

The laws against marijuana can’t fight the free market, including the $100 billion in annual potential profits and the $28 billion states could reap in tax revenue.

Dave owns a retail business in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. He was selling everything from flat-screen TVs to furniture — until Amazon crushed his brick-and-mortar warehouse store with its online merchandise, forcing him to put it up for sale.

His realtor — a conservative pillar of the local church — reluctantly told Dave the only potential buyer was someone who would turn the building into an indoor marijuana farm.

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