Price of Weed
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Type of site | User generated database |
|---|---|
| URL | 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. 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 eight 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 an infographic in a post titled What Does Weed Cost in Your State?[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Debate brews over Oregon marijuana prices". Natural Resources Report. February 14, 2012. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
- ^ Weisenthal, Joe (September 14, 2010). "How Much Does Marijuana Cost In YOUR Area? This Awesome Internet Map Will Tell You". Business Insider. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012.
- ^ Zook, Matthew. "The Price of Weed". Floating Sheep. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
- ^ Bird, Cameron (August 30, 2011). "Infoporn: The Price of Pot". Wired. Vol. 19, no. 9. Archived from the original on February 17, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ "Price of weed". Flowing Data. August 29, 2011. Archived from the original on January 15, 2012. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
- ^ Ritholtz, Barry (August 31, 2011). "The Price Of Weed in the US". The Big Picture. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
- ^ Downey, Allen (2014). "Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers". Archived from the original on 2015-08-04. Retrieved 2015-07-31.
- ^ Bi, Frank (May 12, 2015). "All 50 States Ranked By The Cost Of Weed". Forbes. Archived from the original on October 3, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
- ^ Swanson, Ana (June 22, 2015). "How the price of pot differs in 50 states and 8 major cities". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
- ^ Wang, Mingshu (August 12, 2015). "Crowdsourcing the landscape of cannabis (marijuana) of the contiguous United States". Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 48 (8): 1449–1451. doi:10.1177/0308518X15598541.
- ^ Floyd, David (2016-10-03). "What Does Weed Cost in Your State?". Archived from the original on 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
External links
[edit]- Gawker comment on Price of Weed
- Graspreise in Deutschland (in German)
- A breakdown of neighborhood specific prices in Los Angeles
- Draft academic paper based on the data used to build the heatmap