If it ever were, how would the details of legalizing pot be handled?
First off I am for legalization. I don't use it but I do think it should be legal. It has been proven over and over again that it is far safer than tobacco and alcohol and those are legal.
Would the prices go down? Or would the Agra-corporations be in control of everything and set the prices and make all the money and make prices actually go up?
Would people be able to grow their own outside? I can see a lot of problems with that. First off is kids. How does someone keep the neighborhood kids out of their garden? And don't get me wrong here either, as I would rather have kids smoking pot than drinking hand cleaner or huffing spray paint. But you know that argument would come into it. People would be screaming, "What about the children!" How do you deal with that?
Another thing how do you keep someone who is too lazy or inept to grow their own out of their neighbors garden? People will be getting shot over finding some neighbor crawling around in their back yard to steal some at midnight.
Has anyone else thought about this?
Don
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Growers are the last thing one needs to worry about. Growing good weed is probably just as elusive, time consuming, and financially unrewarding as growing good tomatoes. Most attempts will fail the first time; most who try and fail will not try again; those who succeed will find themselves arriving at market at the same time everyone else does; someone else's crop will always be bigger and better thanks to local growing conditions, and killing off small farming operations is a procedure long since perfected by big money, so successful small operations will be quickly targeted and destroyed or absorbed.
The investment in growing space, tilling, weeding, fertilizing, watering, spraying, protecting from frost, drought, aphids, fungus, beetles, and deer requires a large up-front investment which, coupled with very high risk, makes aiming for a large and profitable operation--or even one big enough to defray its own costs--difficult and unattractive to most. Indoor growers have a better chance at controlling growing conditions, but the costs in electricity and hardware are even higher, and no lighting system can approach the output of the sun, so plants grow slower and smaller. There are at least three ways an entire crop (of almost any plant) can be lost overnight, negating months of effort, which is why people like Mitt Romney don't mess with farming.
It is my understanding that marijuana itself is a touchy plant, having been warped almost beyond recognition by generations of selective growers in the same way that apples, almonds, and tulips have been turned into human-dependent plants. That necessarily requires even more effort to protect it and grow it to term, because left to itself marijuana will quickly devolve back to hemp.
The problem is this simple: the vast majority of people, myself included, simply cannot be relied upon to tend their gardens every 72 hours or less. Most people want to plant something pretty in the ground, get instant results with no effort at all, have it fend for itself against everything that wants to eat or kill it, and have it in constant and copious supply regardless of weather or season.
Until that happens, weed smokers will continue to be consumers, not producers.
...and even in Colorado Springs, there are many liberals and libertarians that believe in individual freedom and the use of marijuana is one of those types of freedoms.
There are a lot of misconceptions out there, I think? 
