Most Consumers Choose Retail Marijuana Access Over the Black Market

PAWTUCKET, RI — Retail cannabis providers are far more popular with consumers than are illicit market providers, according to survey data compiled and published by Marijuana Business Daily.

Sixty-nine percent of respondents who resided in states that permit regulated marijuana sales reported no longer purchasing cannabis from the black market.

Pollsters surveyed more than 1,600 medical and recreational users across the country. The results appeared online Tuesday.

The data rebuts concerns that many consumers would continue to solicit the…