Mediagazer: How ‘PriceOfWeed’ Uses the Crowd to Fill an Illicit Information Gap (Steve Myers/Making Sense of Media)

12:35 PM ET, October 1, 2010

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Steve Myers / Making Sense of Media:

How ‘PriceOfWeed’ Uses the Crowd to Fill an Illicit Information Gap — The other day I walked into a local “tobacco shop,” looking for someone to interview about a new website that documents the price of marijuana around the U.S. and the world. — I would call this place a “head shop,” …

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