A producer cost of $2 per gram is appallingly inefficient. You can buy other agricultural products (fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices) for prices most conveniently expressed in dollars per kilogram, or for those items like herbs and spices that you typically buy in small quantities, in cents per gram, retail. As an example, you can buy rolling tobacco for $80 per 200 gram can, or forty cents per gram, including very heavy taxes. Obviously, wholesale prices must be significantly lower than retail prices; retailers have to pay their costs of operation.

My view is that a wholesale price of $100 per kilogram (10 cents per gram), with retail prices at perhaps 25 cents per gram plus taxes, should allow ample margin for producers and everyone else in the distribution chain to make a living.