Price of Weed

Price of Weed
Type of site
 User generated database
Slogan(s) A Global Price Index for Marijuana
Website http://www.priceofweed.com/
Commercial No
Registration None
Launched 2010
Current status Online

Price of Weed (or priceofweed.com) is a user-generated database of marijuana prices in the United States, Canada and other countries. 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]

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 a 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.
  3. ↑ Zook, Matthew. "The Price of Weed". Floating Sheep.
  4. ↑ Bird, Cameron (August 30, 2011). "Infoporn: The Price of Pot". Wired.
  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".
  11. ↑ Floyd, David (2016-10-03). "What Does Weed Cost in Your State?". Retrieved 2016-10-05.

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