Price of Weed (or priceofweed.com) is a

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database of

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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. In August 2011, Matthew Zook, a professor of geography at the

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, generated a detailed

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using data from the site. The map was included in an issue of

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and drew attention to Price of Weed from

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's Big Picture and Flowing Data. 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). In May 2015, Frank Bi of

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published a piece title All 50 States Ranked By The Cost Of Weed. In June 2015,

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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. In August 2015, Mingshu Wang from The Department of Geography at

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generated a detailed graphic portraying the crowdsourced data from The Price of Weed. In October 2016, David Floyd of

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published an infographic in a post titled What Does Weed Cost in Your State?

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