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Originally posted by parabellum:
How did they manage to fuck this up? It's beyond farcical.

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Originally posted by DaveL:
It doesn't take a genius to see that private, unregulated growers can produce pot cheaper than legitimate businesses operating under byzantine regulations and paying substantial taxes for the privilege of doing so (the massive tax revenue, remember, was a big part of the sell to voters). As long as those regulations and taxes are in place the only way to make the price of legal pot comparable to illegal pot is through subsidies that offset both the regulatory cost and the tax burden, which means the industry would be a net fiscal loss to the state. If commercial pot growing is going to succeed it will have to regulated and taxed like, say, tomato or broccoli growing.

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Originally posted by powermad:
It's legal to grow it for personal use and many have more than a couple of plants.

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There's a pot shop across the street from my credit union in an upper-middle class area. I watched the people go in and out for about 15 minutes a few weeks ago.