[Mr. Quarterpanel]

Here is how this will go;

The reason for doing all this is to increase State tax revenue.

The taxes are high, and the strategy will work....At first. Then the indoor hydroponics and backyard crops will start (Give it 2 years), and the untaxed weed will hit the streets and be much cheaper and as good as you can get from the stores.

Tax revenue will plummet, and the entire state-sponsored apparatus will collapse, which will lead to a re-criminalization of pot in the end.

Unintended consequences. You never see them coming until they whack you in head.

[Ken H]

The taxes are high, and the strategy will work....At first. Then the indoor hydroponics and backyard crops will start (Give it 2 years), and the untaxed weed will hit the streets and be much cheaper and as good as you can get from the stores.

Tax revenue will plummet, and the entire state-sponsored apparatus will collapse, which will lead to a re-criminalization of pot in the end

Sounds like wishful thinking. CA collects $100M/yr in medical mj taxes on $1B sales, despite patients being allowed to grow their own. The program has been in effect since 1997.

[gundog]

Then the indoor hydroponics and backyard crops will start...,

Oregon has gone through a different cycle. A lot of people growing med marijuana for the State can' t pay for their electricity. Weed is dirt cheap.