Price of Weed

Price of Weed (or priceofweed.com) is a user-generated database of marijuana prices. Users may submit prices and quantities for transactions and their location is geolocated in order to generate a price index for states and cities. While user-generated prices have no inherent check on accuracy, the criminal status of marijuana in many countries means a formal price index may be difficult to construct.[1][2]

Price of Weed
Type of site
User generated database
URLhttp://www.priceofweed.com/
CommercialNo
RegistrationNone
Launched2010
Current statusOnline

In August 2011, Matthew Zook, a professor of geography at the University of Kentucky, generated a detailed heatmap using data from the site.[3] The map was included in an issue of Wired[4] and drew attention to Price of Weed from Barry Ritholtz's Big Picture and Flowing Data.[5][6] In 2014, Allen B. Downey, a professor from Olin College utilized data from Price of Weed in his book Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers (Second Edition).[7] In May 2015, Frank Bi of Forbes published a piece title All 50 States Ranked By The Cost Of Weed.[8] In June 2015, The Washington Post generated a detailed infographic portraying pricing data from 8 major US cities. This marks the first data shared publicly portraying a time series of data by city from Price of Weed.[9] In August 2015, Mingshu Wang from The Department of Geography at University of Georgia generated a detailed graphic portraying the crowdsourced data from The Price of Weed.[10] In October 2016, David Floyd of Investopedia published an infographic in a post titled What Does Weed Cost in Your State?[11]

References
  1. "Debate brews over Oregon marijuana prices". Natural Resources Report. February 14, 2012.
  2. Weisenthal, Joe (September 14, 2010). "How Much Does Marijuana Cost In YOUR Area? This Awesome Internet Map Will Tell You". Business Insider. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012.
  3. Zook, Matthew. "The Price of Weed". Floating Sheep.
  4. Bird, Cameron (August 30, 2011). "Infoporn: The Price of Pot". Wired. 19 (9).
  5. "Price of weed". Flowing Data. August 29, 2011.
  6. Ritholtz, Barry (August 31, 2011). "The Price Of Weed in the US". The Big Picture.
  7. Downey, Allen (2014). "Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers".
  8. Bi, Frank (May 12, 2015). "All 50 States Ranked By The Cost Of Weed". Forbes.
  9. Swanson, Ana (June 22, 2015). "How the price of pot differs in 50 states and 8 major cities". The Washington Post.
  10. Wang, Mingshu (August 12, 2015). "Crowdsourcing the landscape of cannabis (marijuana) of the contiguous United States". Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 48 (8): 1449–1451. doi:10.1177/0308518X15598541.
  11. Floyd, David (2016-10-03). "What Does Weed Cost in Your State?". Retrieved 2016-10-05.
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