Before Canada legalized marijuana, it was largely a person-person sized business and many dealers grew their pot for personal sales.
Once it became legal, right to the minute, there were acreage size grow up operations being built. You don’t build these gigantic marijuana farms, without there being some serious money involved in building them. That money to build the acreage sized grow-ops came from Big Pharma and other Big Corp.
By having Big Pharma and Big Corp involved, the small time dealer found his business dropped significantly.
Once the US legalizes marijuana nationally, it will happen in America as well. Big Corp and Big Pharma are just waiting with bags of money for it to be legalized and they will start building those acreage sized grow-ops as well.
There won’t be a place for the individual grower.
Gotcha.
We already have “Big Weed” in parts of the country (like Arizona). And the Circle K chain is now selling pot at some of their locations ( selling pot at a convenience store )
Seem to remember hearing back in the 70s that some tobacco company had already copywrited or trademarked Acapulco Gold
Alfred Hitchcock Presents S.5 Ep.10 “Special Delivery”