Round here (ONT), it's 10/gram street, 14/gram through the system.
But the price on the street drops with quantity where as in the system it does not.
Once you get to triple digits the street price is usually half the system price.
The system gives you specific quality and strains.
On the street you have to rely on the dealers' choices.
IMHO, the government plans to monetize the pain that THC deals with like they have with the whole chronic disease management system.
In my estimation, growing ones own is the only real solution if one is stuck using weed as medicine.But that can be problematic too for a bunch of reasons.
I replaced weed with magnesium chloride to get at the cause as opposed to dealing with symptoms, and couldn't be happier about it.
If the problem involves inflammation, I would seriously recommend looking into MC.
Or even MC and weed.
Some Drugs can bring about real PERSONAL mystical moments but I think it's greed for money and power that causes religion.
I have a bunch of songs I wrote while using weed that people seem to really like, but they were finished and memorized while straight, or they never would have got finished and memorized.

Oddly enough some of them are very gospelesque and really rip religion and government ideologies.