If you would think for a minute it might occur to you that I was indicating quantity by using pre-legalization prices. A 20 year old that doesn’t eat tomatoes, except on a burger and could care less about growing one and saving 50 cents a few times a year, will be very interested in growing what would have been $50,000.00 dollars worth of pot stash that will enable him to party like crazy and be the life of the party, and sell some for pocket cash, and to build a mountain of an almost free pot reserve, that can last for years.
Tobacco can be grown, as my grandmother did it, but that is a long way from the complicated process of making the refined Marlboro cigarette. With pot, they just want it to get high, just the plant itself.
States have created a black market in finished cigarettes, not in people growing tobacco.