{"product_id":"can-legal-weed-win-the-blunt-realities-of-cannabis-economics-paperback","title":"Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobin Goldstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Sumner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo economists take readers on a tour of the economics of legal and illegal weed, showing where cannabis regulation has gone wrong and how it could do better.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cannabis \"legalization\" hasn't lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people are pointing fingers. On the business side, companies have shut down, farms have failed, workers have lost their jobs, and consumers face high prices. Why has legal weed failed to deliver on many of its promises? \u003ci\u003eCan Legal Weed Win? \u003c\/i\u003etakes on the euphoric claims with straight dope and a full dose of economic reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book delivers the unadulterated facts about the new legal segment of one of the world's oldest industries. In witty, accessible prose, economists Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner take readers on a whirlwind tour of the economic past, present, and future of legal and illegal weed. Drawing upon reams of data and their own experience working with California cannabis regulators since 2016, Goldstein and Sumner explain why many cannabis businesses and some aspects of legalization fail to measure up, while others occasionally get it right. Their stories stretch from before America's first medical weed dispensaries opened in 1996 through the short-term boom in legal consumption that happened during COVID-19 lockdowns. \u003ci\u003eCan Legal Weed Win?\u003c\/i\u003e is packed with unexpected insights about how cannabis markets can thrive, how regulators get the laws right or wrong, and what might happen to legal and illegal markets going forward.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn irreverent, well-written, no-nonsense, fact-packed guide to some of the unexpected consequences of weed legalization. Both surprising and enlightening!--Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology, Yale University, and host of \u003ci\u003eThe Happiness Lab\u003c\/i\u003e podcast \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It's high time economists took a serious look at weed. This insightful and entertaining joint effort sheds light on an important topic.\"--Jayson Lusk, Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Food Police\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnnaturally Delicious\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner provide a comprehensive guide to the key economic and regulatory factors that are driving the markets for weed, while at the same time offering plenty of fun anecdotes for an enjoyable read. A must-have reference for anyone considering participating in this industry as an investor, producer, retailer, policy maker, or consumer.\"--Bradley Rickard, Professor of Food and Agricultural Economics, Cornell University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Not just your ordinary puff piece, \u003ci\u003eCan Legal Weed Win? \u003c\/i\u003edelivers a refreshing explanation of how the legalization of cannabis ended up in smoke and how it can get straight again. Goldstein and Sumner take a refreshingly objective perspective, which few weed books do, and explain with simple, understandable economic intuition how we have arrived at a dual-market (legal and illegal) system.\"--Michael McCullough, Professor of Agribusiness, California Polytechnic State University, and CEO of the Beeronomics Society\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Goldstein \u003c\/b\u003eis an economist and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wine Trials\u003c\/i\u003e, the controversial exposé of wine snobbery that became the world's best-selling guide to cheap wine. He is Director of the Cannabis Economics Group in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He has an AB from Harvard University, a JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD in economics from the University of Bordeaux. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Sumner \u003c\/b\u003eis Frank H. Buck, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He grew up on a California fruit farm, served on the president's Council of Economic Advisers, and was Assistant Secretary of Economics at the US Department of Agriculture before joining the UC Davis faculty. 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