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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen marijuana is legalized, what will be the position on private growth?
Is it going to be similar to the exemption on making your own wine and beer at home?
Distilling spirits is illegal (along with being difficult and occasionally dangerous, if you don't really, really know what you're doing), and that's reasonable.
But growing plants?
Anyone have any thoughts?
I would hope that "growing your own" would be something that was allowed, along with being super difficult to police, especially with hobbyist growers.
I was going to make this a poll, but doing that would lead this out of discussion.
hlthe2b
(102,360 posts)No other state has legalized to date, as you surely know.
http://www.denverpost.com/homegarden/ci_24782729/growing-your-own-marijuana-colorado-legal-doesnt-mean
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Keep it small and for your own use.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I favor the Colorado Plan over the Washington Plan.
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)This is an example of how far language itself has been corrupted
If you can't grow your own it is Decriminalization not Legalization. All one has to do is look up the definitions.
Washington did not "legalize" cannabis, they decriminalized an ounce or less and that ounce better have a tax stamp and you better save your receipt.
Growing a single plant in WA is a felony. The New Lords of Cannabis in that state are the gun toting Liquor Control Board which wants to change its name to the Liquor and Cannabis control board. Well meaning Washingtonians who voted for "legalization" got screwed over by dis information.
msongs
(67,441 posts)legal in that case
klook
(12,166 posts)Some states allow mail order wine, for example -- in limited quantities -- while in others (e.g., Georgia, where I live) the spirits distributors have such a lock on the legislature that we'll probably never get home delivery.
And, of course, if enough people grow their own and save the seeds, the commercial suppliers' market is kaput.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)and that made by masters. A bottle of wine can be $2 or $2,000. They are both wine. Every house has a kitchen, and yet people pay dearly to eat the cooking of someone else's kitchen. It's perfectly easy and legal to grow all your own veg, and yet people buy billions of dollars of veg grown by others.
In Colorado, people can grow at home, they are selling 10 tons a month. Why is that?
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Philosophically, I think it ought to be the same as brewing one's own limited quantities of beer/wine at home.
If it goes over a certain level to become a commercial enterprise, then it gets regulated and taxed, etc.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)and since the state has no way of collecting money on home-grown MJ, I would suspect that states will not allow home grown.
Like I always say, it's always about the money.