Originally Posted by Rob

You're missing the point. Not everyone would grow their own pot...hell, tobacco is pretty fucking easy to grow in the Eastern states (North Caroline, Virginia, etc) but you don't see people growing their own tobacco and rolling their own cigs. In order to grow pot it would require a license that would cost thousands and you would have to pay taxes on. If they outright made it legal then Phillip-Morris and every other cig company would grow the fuck out of it and sell it like they do packs of Malboros. That would be taxed.

I could grow tobacco on my property right now but it's a lot more convenient just to run to the store and buy a pack of smokes.

The main reason people grow pot now is because it is illegal and they get prime money for selling it. Once pot is legalize the regular grower couldn't keep up with industrial America and would go out of business like any other mom-and-pop store.