But buy from the government-approved weed shop and you know it's real!

And before any dickhead says "hurr durr, you can tell the difference". No. You can't. There are a million version of "weed" now that are not weed, but look and smell EXACTLY like weed. If you don't get that, you probably aren't even smoking the real shit because you're clearly behind the game.

This was done on purpose to destroy the street market.

Destroy the street market and everyone needs to buy it from the government.

One of the many "totally normal coincidences" that just happens to completely benefit the people in power. Shocked face.