“Liquor shops and tobacconists are deserted and tumbleweed-infested, since of course nobody finds the convenience and higher quality control of commercially-manufactured products an attractive reason not to self-produce. Right?”
Since much of the proposed legislation PROHIBITS commercial sales, your point seems moot.
You also seem confused about the relative difficulty of obtaining the ingredients and brewing a premium brew, versus plantiong a seed and waiting four months.
Keep researching, you’ll get it sooner or later.
Yet my grocery store is loaded with produce, and people seem to buy it. Even though growing pot is relatively easy (and honestly, growing and curing high qualaity pot is a little more difficult than just throwing a seed into the ground and waiting), it would still sell like hot cakes at the store. Never underestimate the inherent laziness of the average consumer.