Sure but be careful with the price increases. At some point, bootlegging/smuggling becomes worthwhile. Happened with cigarettes in Canada (organized by the tobacco industry):
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tobacco-firms-to-pay-550m-ove...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tobacco-firms-to-pay-550m-ove...
its sad how the Indian Act is still in effect today and how politically impossible the situation is.
I think that countries without these huge loopholes might see less problems from bootlegging as we see here.
0:https://www.ontario.ca/document/tobacco-tax/first-nations-ci...
That way instead of general tax payers funding enforcement, it's the direct beneficiaries of the enforcement who are funding the effort. And they can decide how much they want to tax themselves.
20 years ago your local specialist was had a lot of risk, too. Cops, guns, general shadiness, etc. Now most cops DGAF for anything under giant quantities, and even then it's a regulatory thing, so they're not tracking down the local weedman. No risk, and better prices.