You have learned your hogwash MJ talking points well, grasshopper so it is useless to attempt to rebut.
However, your last sentence was obliterated by an article written in Colorado just this last week about the underground pot business flourishing because people will buy from the cheapest supplier which so happens to NOT be your friendly dope dealer with a store front and license.
We are destined for a society that fulfills the verse to that song; “Everybody must get stoned”.
Yeah right.
Hydro doesn’t use a 10th of the water required for an outside grow. Much the same as growing veggies hydroponic.
There is no huge pot of gold for the states to reap if pot were totally legal.
Nobody is going to get rich selling a product as easy to grow as a tomato plant. Make it legal and everyone would grow their own.