Right, just because you could manufacture product yourself, doesn’t mean that most people will choose too. Anyone can grow tomatoes in their yard, but most still choose to buy them from the store for convenience, quality, availability, or other reasons.
Also, $300/oz is still less than the street value for the quality of stuff you get from a California dispensary. So, even with taxes and the business marking it up to make a profit, the consumer is saving maybe 25% via legalization.
Like the people doing the bath salt thing would become “converts” to the marijuana religion?
Or maybe spray paint will be the next hot kick?
I frankly would rather have marijuana illegal than let the state become the new drug cartel through taxation and invasion of privacy.
I don’t think the states should profit from something that is federally illegal, that is racketeering.
If you want to grow the stuff in your garden like a vegetable, I don’t have a problem with it.
But, I don’t think registering with the government as a pot user is a really smart idea...
People are being arrested every single day because they went and gave the government all the necessary investigative information for surveillance.
Stupid is as stupid does...
How about just simply erasing all laws on marijuana at the state level and let the federal government take up the burden and costs of enforcement?
If marijuana is supposedly so safe, why does it need to be “regulated” ???