Fun fact, their is only a certain amount of alcohol you can brew legally without getting a license. However, since alcohol is legal... no one cares nor do cops go raiding party houses for beer. Think weed will be different? The sheer stupidity of the big business argument makes me reluctant to even respond to it... but people seem to think that it is worth debating. You don't want big business bud... well since all of you have already boasted of growing your own bud, don't buy it. Let others buy who want to. Since greed isn't motivating you, why do you care? Let people be stupid and smoke artificial/chemical bud. But stating that all big business bud will be chemical bud is stupid too. Lets take cigarettes for example. Marlboro and Camel... fake and shitty. American spirits, real tobacco... still shitty. Bugler/Drumm/Bali Shagg... etc. Real tobacco, really good, hardly even more expensive than regular cigarettes. Hey would you look at that. For paying a tiny bit more, in bugler's case, less, you get tobacco that is real, and pretty tasty.
I understand that growing is a way of life for people and this bill could affect them negatively, but lets get real. You can always take out loans to start a business, use your house as collateral (that's what most entrepreneurs have to do), and make your own bud company. It's not going to lose money, if you have a good product. You could be the friendly corner store that sells chronic. Call yourself "family smokes" to let everyone know that you're a great guy, and greed isn't your driving motivation. Sure, prices of outdoor weed will go down (peanuts cost more money to grow than weed, and yet they cost 1/100 of the price at least), but you will be growing way more, and you will have a large amount of customers every day. Indoor weed will be expensive so long as electricity is expensive, but there will probably be ways around huge electric bills in the future (LED lights?).
Bob Marley would be for everyone legally allowed to smoke weed. He wasn't a greedy prick, and he didn't use irie and brudda in stupid ways on forums. Bob Marley also would not pretend to know someone and use it against other people that were fans of said figure. In fact, if he was a fan of the same musician, he'd probably be stoked on the fact that he had something in common with some random dude. That's great that you're a huge dealer, I thought I was cool when I dealt with pounds of bud, but then I graduated highschool and realized dealing is a shitty way to make money.
