What If Bourbon Couldn't Leave Kentucky?

An eighth of cannabis cost $15 in Washington in August and $52 in Kentucky, where every buyer is a patient. This week's Read-In starts with a bottle of bourbon, which costs about the same in all fifty states, and asks what would happen if it could no longer cross a state line. What you get is cannabis as it works today, with forty complete supply chains, four open states that landed near $18 without ever trading a gram, a Florida license that fell from $55 million to $9 million, and a cap Virginia is setting right now. Most of what a state charges above $18 is a decision somebody made.