Why did Mexico’s president urge the passage of the bill? He knew we had to buy the buds at least somewhere; also, Mexicans would do the picking Americans wouldn’t do.
Imagine how this would have changed things for children in California: “When I grow up I want to be a pot farmer”.
You have that reversed. Mexican President Calderon was a critic of Prop 19:
Why would they want to grow up to be pot farmers if the price dropped drastically ? Pot can be grown anywhere in CA climate, and if anybody that wanted to could legally grow a few plants in their garden, there would be no market for any farmer anywhere to make a living on. It would be like if stores demanded $20/lb for tomatoes — nobody would buy them anymore, they’d grow them on their own patio. There’s never big money in legal and easily grown agricultural products. Pot literally grows like a weed if it isn’t systematically being eradicated. Taking the big money out of the pot industry would wipe out all those growers in northern CA that are currently providing for the semi-legal-wink-wink medical users. It wouldn’t valuable enough for anybody to try to make a living growing it anymore.