Pot-legalization question: should the FDA be able to inspect and regulate it?

[Recursion]

Would it be a different regulatory body? No regulation at all? Curious what people think about that.

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. Yes, if it is produced and sold commercially.

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[OneTenthofOnePercent]

3. If grown for the purpose of public sale... yes. It's a drug isn't it?

[Recursion]

4. I guess so; I'm just wondering if that would be the end of grow-your-own

Regulation usually prices smaller producers out of business; lobbyists will see to that (but wow do I want to go to the National Marijuana Producers Association Christmas party once they start up and find an office on K Street). I know the USDA regularly busts Amish farmers who sell milk to people; I'm wondering how hard it would be to get locally-grown organic stuff.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

6. No harder than it is now.... So not hard at all.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. USDA busts farmers who sell RAW milk to people.

It is illegal to sell raw milk. If selling marijuana were legal, it would be legal, unlike selling raw milk. The premise of the OP is legalization, so comparison to an illegal product is sort of contradictory. Should raw milk sales be illegal? Different question. Point is, they are not busted for selling milk to people, but for selling a product that is not processed correctly under the law.

[Recursion]

10. That is false

It is illegal to sell raw milk.

That is simply factually wrong; the USDA milk busts never lead to convictions (cow shares are legal in all 50 states) but they stop operations long enough to put the farmers out of business.

To your other points, I'm assuming the lobbies would work to make what constitutes "legal" pot very difficult for somebody to grow on their own, that being the way regulations usually work.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. So selling raw milk is fine under regulations? Those Amish

should sue. As to your other point, yes, you are assuming. And that's it. The pot somebody grows on their own is not a product. No one gets busted, conviction or no, for drinking the raw milk they produce. So this is about personal gardening or is it about selling a product?

[anarch]

7. and/or a food...so, yes

much like apples, or collard greens and such.

[fredamae]

15. No, it is not a drug.

Drugs are manufactured in a lab or factory..Cannabis is actually a plant and a plant that in fact is a phytomedicine.
Mortal man did Not create Cannabis, it was already here when we arrived:)

[damntexdem]

5. If it is to be marketed as a drug, the FDA has oversight on safety and effectiveness.

Interestingly, were it marketed only as a food, the FDA would have oversight only on safety, not effectiveness. ;-)

And, by the way, marijuana has in the past been identified as a vector in e coli transmission, so safety is an issue.

[Taverner]

8. Yes - it should be treated as any herb would be treated

Although I almost think that might be a job for the USDA

[spanone]

12. certainly. otherwise humans will cheat and add synthetic drugs to cheap pot.

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[fredamae]

14. After VIOXX, Avandia and many etc's--No.

I don't trust them. Period.

Simply allow people, if they so choose, to grow it themselves.
I don't see where there are any problems with the products coming from the dispensaries in CA, MT CO etc, people are not getting sick...More people are getting sick from FDA regulated prescription/OTC medicines, beef, chicken, vegetables.. Apparently dispensaries are doing their own testing and doing so successfully.

Why waste the time and money?

[kenny blankenship]

16. Does the FDA inspect all tobacco products?

[guitar man]

17. If it's sold commercially

I'm fine with it. If it's my own growing next to my tomatoes in my garden... Give it the same inspection requirements my tomatoes have