Don't take any offense to this, but...
Instead of moaning about the inflated price of legal dispensed pot, don't you think it's actually great that the government is trying their hardest to figure out a way of keeping good quality pot in the dispenseraries, grown by license holders in strict parameters defined by the state. This is revolutionary. This is a step forward in the right direction. This is the first step towards legalisation and they are building a system to enforce only the best buds hitting the retail market.
If you ask me, 600 a oz isn't new at all, during the early 2000's we had a clone only strain rarely seen outside of Texas called Shoreline, not the seeds you buy online, but the real deal Holyfield. It wasn't unusual to pay 5-600 an oz of that stuff because of the supreme high quality.
Ask New Yorkers what the real ecsd went for in the 90's and 2000's and they will say the same, I used to drive lbs up to Oklahoma from Texas and profit over a grand a lb. and I was buying at 350 a lb for good Mexican Reggie.
The times are a changing in a good way, and were all along on this ride, wait a few years and things WILL get better, not as good as growing your own, but for the retail consumer who doesn't have the gumption to successfully complete a grow and keep going, 600 an oz is a small price to pay for medication with very little side affects and almost no proven addiction..
Ease up fellas its legal in states of the United States of America, this is just fucking awesome. And as an expat living in Australia, you guys are lucky as hell and I've seriously considered coming home to escape harsh punishment being caught with a single gram.
Weigh it up. I'd rather pay 600 legally than 250 and risk being thrown in the slammer..