There are more reasons than I can count. Our state legislature is pushing for THC limits that are absurd, 1960's weed low. The dispensaries are already starting to weaken their oils and tincs playing to the legislature to try and avoid more rules. I literally could go and buy a gun with fewer restrictions and state monitoring, they have to account for every milligram of bud they sell and who they sell it to. My concealed permit was $50 every 2 years, my weed card is over $400 a year after the required doctors visits and state fees.
The stores have the ambience of a 1930's psychotic ward. The worst of it is, they're growing weed in a damned swamp. I know more than a few people who have been lucky enough to score jobs with the 4 companies allowed to grow. Every single one of them has quit within a few weeks because they couldn't take throwing out nearly half the harvests because the companies refuse to spend money on indoor facilities and continue to try and grow in outdoor hoop houses, in a swamp in soil so sandy it might as well be an outdoor hydroponic grow. Expecting a store to maintian inventory is too much to ask of them and they get pissy when you ask why they only have distilates and oils but have been out of flower for a month. Anyone growing indoor is going to produce superior bud to what's being sold legally, the companies are throwing out almost as much as they sell because they penny pinch everything. Eleven years growing indoor here, I've had mold once and only once.
Between republican government not being happy with the population that voted to pass the law and doing their best to make it miserable, locking out any possibility of locally owned businesses by only letting massive muti-billion dollar corporations grow in the state. Corporations are doing what corporations do, spending the absolute bare minimum on nutes, environmental controls, and not being willing to even consider indoor cultivation; our dispensary weed sucks on many levels.
I'd much rather go back to pre legalization and sit on my dealers couch playing the PS4 with him while smoking a mystery strain from Oregon, Washington or Colorado and guessing if it was a sativa or indica.