The Chico News & Review, 29 Dec 2011 – So who’s benefiting from the federal crackdown on medical-marijuana dispensaries? Why, black-market pot growers and dealers, that’s who. According to a recent report by the Center for Investigative Reporting’s California Watch, prices for high-grade, outdoor-grown marijuana, after slumping precipitously in 2010, have risen by 20 to 40 percent since four U.S.