[philman_36]

I'm talking about suing the manufacturer of the product for damages.
You can't sue a tomato manufacturer if you grow and consume your own tomatoes.

[SampleMan]

You can't sue a tomato manufacturer if you grow and consume your own tomatoes.

Well, I wouldn't put it past a lawyer. But selling the seed would be the same as selling a joint as far as civil liability goes, or at least close enough to ensure any seed company would soon face a massive lawsuit.

My point isn't against "growing your own", that is perhaps the strongest argument. My point is that legalization, as we think of it with other products, simply wouldn't be possible in the current tort atmosphere. MJ might make a go of it with hefty insurance costs tagged on, but other more harmful drug manufacturers would simply be unable to make it work. The pharmaceuticals have a hard enough time with drugs that have medically redeeming purposes.

[Bogey]

I'm talking about suing the manufacturer of the product for damages.
You can't sue a tomato manufacturer if you grow and consume your own tomatoes.

---

You think the government is going to make growing your own legal?
Have you seen the jail terms for people smuggling tobacco?
Try to produce bourbon out of the house. Wine, beer fine. Not bourbon.
You have no prayer of legalization without a price tag of 700.00 a bag or more at the table from a retail outlet that can afford the equivalent of an alcohol license.
Another poster said he paid 850.00 for medicinal. Legally.
This is a capitalist country, not Amsterdam.
75% going to the government. Like booze and smokes.
Their going to make it expensive and call it a voluntary tax. Don't want to pay it, quit.

You have to be kidding.