Dispensary make the same profits as drug dealers

I live on the California border, so I keep up on medical marijuana there. I also have chronic pain from back surgery, so I understand the patients side. Dispensaries in California may be proving the other sides point. I tell people all the time, that if we make drugs legal, it will take the profit out of drugs, and the drug dealers will go away. The California dispensaries sell a plant for almost the price of gold, and that's the problem, they sell it for the same price the drug dealers do. No wonder dispensaries have sprung up everywhere, the profits are huge. Dispensaries need to make a profit, but it should be a reasonable price, set by actual cost to produce with a reasonable profit. No plant that grows as easy as marijuana should sell for $500 an ounce. As long as dispensaries act like drug dealers, I'm afraid they will be treated like drug dealers by the government. E. Jay Fleming Speaker Law Enforcement Against Prohibition