A story from The Washington Post early this year lays out a startling observation about the future price of legal cannabis, and Colorado’s lawmakers should take note.

The piece, by Keith Humphreys, argues that as the legalization experiment continues across the land — or if it is allowed to under Attorney General Jeff Sessions — the price of weed will drop like a bowling ball.

As with so many aspects of marijuana policy in a nation where the drug is legal in several states, but forbidden by the feds, there is a head-fake element to what should have been a simple realization out of the gate. For decades and decades of black-market sales, we became accustomed to the idea that crazy tobacco sold for thousands of dollars per pound. Humphreys reminds us it never needed to be so. The Devil’s Lettuce grows about as easily as normal lettuce. They call it weed for a reason.

What to do when the price of cannabis drops like a bowling ball?