[FlingWingFlyer]

In the past,planting day was a time of great expectations, maybe for a vacation in Hawaii or Mexico during the rainy months or a new motor home to make deliveries around the country.

Geez. I don't know what to say. But hey! Things are tough all over. (Old Cheech and Chong saying).

[Vermont Lt]

Damn, that free market economy is a bitch.

[skeeter]

I guess we’re supposed to get all sentimental or something.

[I_Like_Spam]

Its not difficult to grow marijuana, in as much as it is a weed.

Only the risk of getting busted can justify the high price.

Once that risk is entirely lifted, the price will be a lot closer to zero than even the $800.

[NVDave]

It is just as the proponents of legalization have foretold: Make it legal and the incredible profit margins just.... go away. The market will take care of it.

Same thing happened at the end of Prohibition.

[rbg81]

When did it become legal to grow pot? Did I miss something?

[ColdOne]

Excuse me but I have no sorrow for them.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Meanwhile Mexican drug gangs are making it harder for honest mafia hit men to compete in the open market.

[Chode]

[mongo141]

AW, I am just crushed that the free market is causing you to lose your butt. Maybe the choome brother in the white hut will bail you out. /S

[Repeat Offender]

The pot bubble is popping.....meanwhile stock in Frito Lay is looking hot.

[Cicero]

He suspects plenty of people will still want high-quality,organically grown cannabis

Oh, well. Who'd've thought that organic pot was GOOD for you?

Millions of greenie hippies, that's who.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Hunton Peck]

Pot kept things afloat as the logging and fishing industries declined.

The economy went to pot.

Then things got bad.

[Brad from Tennessee]

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration marijuana smuggled into the U.S. accounts for 60 percent of profits of the Mexican cartels.

If marijuana is legalized it should be regulated, licensed and taxed like tobacco and alcoholic beverages. It should be processed and packaged like cigarettes and sold by licensed merchants. Like homemade wine, people should be allowed to grow limited quantities for their own consumption. But eventually the quality and price of the commercial products would be the choice of most consumers.

Law enforcement could focus their time and energy on hard narcotics and serious crime and U.S. prisons wouldn't be quite as crowded.

[count-your-change]

I think I might shed a tear. Then again not. The illegal pot growing will crowd out honest but less profitable endeavors.

[Avid Coug]

An amazing amount of irony here. “It ought to be illegal to make pot legal!” (sarc)

[rawcatslyentist]

They should be ashamed of selling the first gift of creation!

[tiki]

Shoulda been saving for retirement when it was 5K a pound.

That is one of the problems in America right now, no one saves they just spend everything they make plus.

Even my own son, his wife graduated and got a job and tripled their income and all of a sudden it was spend, spend, spend. I gave them a good talking to and they came to their senses but in the beginning they were acting like idiots.

[Revolting cat!]