Maybe overall, but the tobacco industry is stratified to meet the tastes and price points of consumers from generic cigarettes to $2500 boxes of premium hand rolled cigars. This industry will be no different.
That is name branding. Like alcohol as well. But at least alcohol is aged for years. I wear the cheapest jeans Walmart sells. They are comfortable and last for years. Levi's? Meh. I rarely wear the ones I own. I am more comfortable in the cheapies.
Marijuana is easy to grow like tomatoes or many other veggies. When you lift the black market? And people discover this? Why would they pay $50 an 1/8th? I think watching the Colorado fall harvest will be a tell. If everybody and there brother grows outdoors this summer, which I feel could happen, and all of a sudden you got all this abundance of MJ and competition. I think wholesale prices will fall.
Like the oil panics of the past were overly dramatized, which drove gas prices through the roof, eliminating the marijuana black market will cause prices to plummet.
Oil is just sludge pumped out of the ground and refined. Marijuana is just a plant that is easily grown. You can learn all about it on the Internet afterall.