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Oh that all sounds all well and good having the weed growing next to the corn and soy beans on private land and corporate farms. Of course they would have to be licenced, and most likely have a limit on the amount they could grow. But what is stopping someone who is not licensed to start his own business? California since they passed their marijuana laws have a real problem with illegal growers. Colorado is reporting the same What the government will give you for 40 bucks, the illegal grower then will offer it at a lower price after all, he doesn't have to hassle with all the rules and regulations and he has a nice clientele in students who are either to young to purchase it or can't afford it.
thanks but no thanks.
Licensed and limited? that doesn't sound like legalization to me. If I decide to grow tomatoes in my back yard, no one tells me I can't, do they? I can plant corn, squash, anything I like in my garden. If I can grow my own cheaper than the commercial growers, more power to me.
We don't see illegal growers raising their own tobacco in any appreciable quantities, nor do we see them creating "plantations" in the national parks and forests, shooting at "trespassers" to protect their crop, and then leaving behind a mess of irrigation pipes and chemicals when they take their harvest and flee the scene. Were pot legal, we wouldn't see such plantations of weed, either.