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ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: California to Vote on Legal Marijuana (1/12/2010 12:37:40 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Silence8
For one thing, illegal smugglers would probably be out of business almost immediately, unable to compete in terms of price or quality against professional legal mass producers. Likewise, whatever you grow out of your closet will pail in comparison, and your friends will make fun of you while smoking their strawberry-flavored indica-blend Burberry-essence haze.
Not my closet. I guarantee it. If you get the right genetics, and learn the idiosyncrasies of your particular strain, you can do anything in your basement that anyone can do in an industrial-sized operation, albeit on a smaller scale. To go back to the tomato metaphor, are the tomatoes you buy in the store any better than the tomatoes you grow in your yard? Same thing with weed. A plant is a plant is a plant, no matter where you're growing it. Take proper care of it, and give it the right lighting, the right medium, and the right nutes at the right time, and it doesn't care where it grew.
And in a price war, the small-scale grower can easily compete with larger operations, because they have essentially no overhead. Once you buy your initial setup, it's mostly just nutrients and the electric bill from that point on. Grow it outside, as most Californians would probably do it it were legal, and you don't even have to worry about the electric bill. A few hundred dollars worth of nutrients would grow into a several pounds of top-end smoke in less than 4 months.
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ORIGINAL: Silence8
Even with taxes, the price should go down.
That, I agree with. Way down. The question is, would it go down far enough that it would not be cost-effective for people to grow their own? I suspect that for many, it would, but for most people who had the space and the time, they'd rather just keep growing their own.
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