Reply #54: keep dreaming. [View All]

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if you think that tobacco is the model that legalized pot would follow, you're insane.
it would be more akin to liquor.
and i don't recall saying anyting one way or the other, as far as what role the small farmer will or won't play- although i do believe that more people will grow their own if allowed to do so legally- although i would imagine that part of the taxation process will be the requirement of a license to grow it- whether a home grower or a corporate farm- and the more plants you want to grow, the more it will cost(and for the corporate mega-farms that dot the landscape of your imagination- the costs would be pretty high) and i could even see them putting a limit on the number of marijuana plants any one person/farm would be allowed to grow. i doubt that the same kind of tax/license/limits would apply to industrial hemp- as it's market/uses would be entirely different.

i also think that it's just as likely to appear in boxes of brownie mix, green butter, or other food products as it is to appear in cartons of pre-rolled joints. i know for myself- if the price were to "plunge" i would probably cut back drastically on how much i smoke, and switch to eating it. whatever form it would end up being sold in- it would definitely require an i.d., and it wouldn't be sold to anyone who isn't old enough to buy liquor.