[houeto]

And don't give us that line about pot heads growing and rolling their own. Sure some will but the vast majority will be buying retail from the network just as tobacco users do now. Very few grow their own tobacco and roll it. And very few alcohol users have their own stills and breweries.

I've been lurking this debate. In this instance you are comparing oranges to apples. The vast majority would grow their own because it's just a dang weed needing little to no effort.

I don't grow it nor do I smoke it, but we do make our own wine! ;-)

[Hostage]

Thanks for sharing but there’s a point missed here.

I also have friends that retired and started to make wine, cognac, beer. They really studied the details and their first batches were pretty good. They made their own labels and they kept trying season after season their wine, brew and liquor got better and better. They entered their products in contests and always had it around at summer barbecues. But they never made it a business, it was a hobby. Why is that?

Take cigarettes. What $7 or $8 a pack now? Taxed up the wazoo? It’s not hard to grow a spit of tobacco, hang it, dry it, blend it. Why don’t more people do it?

The point is we are not Talking about hobbies. The brew, wine and liquor my friends make is nothing to the giant chain distribution of such products that fill aisles in supermarkets and specialty stores.

There is no comparison.

What drug legalization is proposing is to create a new huge market of legal products that certain distributors will murder to secure rights of. The backyard hobbyists will be statistical dust next to the production and supply of the distribution channels of marijuana and derivative products.

And the derivative products will be pushing the legal limits to magic mushroom snuff, heavenly peyote, crack by any number of names, heroin or mescaline with heroin traces and on and on. There will be no end until the population capitulates and allows the drug lords to rule.

Then comes the prostitution, the loan sharking, the extortion rackets, the port heist rackets, insurance fraud and on and on.

Illegal drugs are high priced not because drug lords demand high margins, they are high priced because the middlemen delivery agents mark the product up to make the risk-reward tradeoff attractive. With legalization, the high risk middlemen delivery agents are dissolved but the drug lords still make the same and more profit because the risk is gone. Because they are criminals with criminal minds, who think laws are only for the little people, they will create hell on earth for those in their sphere and their sphere will be greatly expanded when a large part of their business is legalized and they have murdered their way to preserving their supply and distribution.

Don’t entertain little provincial fairy tales about drug users living in their rainbow worlds growing their own in peace while they toke themselves to oblivion. They are playing with fire.

For those that bow before the drug lords and stretch out their arms and hands before them while repeating a humble request to stop the violence in return for legalization, they will find they have walked into the lion’s den. These cartel monsters hate the USA and the people in it. And they will not fade away with legalization. To the contrary they will be pushing to make addicts and dopers of as many useful idiots that they can find.