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Are there any tobacco farmers here on FR? I’d buy 100 pounds of cigarette tobacco for $3 a pound or whatever the price is.
There are tobacco auctions from what I hear.

You have to assume that part of the law would allow you to grow it yourself. You can grow tobacco yourself, tobacco is taxed, yet most people don’t grow their own tobacco.

Today’s illegal drug dealers will likely see a big hit in their wallets. Some people will grow it themselves, others will buy it in stores and pay a tax. There won’t be much of a profit for pot smuggling.

One, there will be a profit because the idiots will tax the crap out of it just as they do cigarettes. Tobacco is harder to grow than pot, you can't hide it as easily as you can pot. MJ will soon cost more than you can get it on the black market, once the taxes reach that point illegal growers will again pop up and it will smuggled in just as it is today. Why? Because the government always kills the golden goose.

They actually take in less revenue now with cig then they did before they started taxing it, hence the constant raising of the cig tax in order to raise revenues which then drives more people to stop smoking and fewer revenues to be collected. Soon, and it may have already started, cigs will be smuggled in.

Don't believe me? Cigars of certain types are smuggled in now. Every once in a while they will make a big "illegal cigar" bust, and cigars haven't been taxed much until recently.

Making MJ legal should take the crime out of it, and it will for a while(-the growers who now grow it illegally will probably get out of the market, but farmers eager for a new crop will start up)but they will kill that off like they have cigs.

Tobacco isn’t all that easy to grow, it’s subject to a lot of diseases. It takes a bit of aging after drying, and I bet it wouldn’t taste too much like a marlboro or whatever.
It’s not illegal, but that’s because nobody does it, either.
The state didn’t care when hippies raided Diners for (free) used french fry oil, when it went mainstream, they wanted to hit users for not paying the road-use tax! See where this always ends up?

Weed is (apparently) a lot easier for the DIYer to make a product. My view is that weed is not good for children/teenagers especially, and tends to create a lethargy and mental confusion that is not generally a Good Thing. There are probably worse things out there, but esp. parents who perhaps partook “back in the day” are decidedly against their children from smoking the stuff.

One thing I have always wondered about though, outlawing Booze required a constitutional amendment - why aren’t other substances?