“Why don’t they rush find new ways to grow garlic or onions or strawberries? There’s already an established market for those and its not counting on already feeble Americans getting even higher and stupider than they already are.”
I would imagine it’s because garlic and strawberries sell for a few dollars a pound while cannabis sells for thousands of dollars a pound.
Free market and all that.
Cannibis sells for $hundreds per lb, because it is nearly completely illegal except for some exceptions. When it becomes legal, price will be as low as anything, and 90% of those companies entering the cannibis biz will be bankrupt.
meanwhile, America will still be importing lots of fruits and vegetables.