“Nobody saw this coming. At all....”
When all this started coming about I rebutted a few articles espousing the groovy beauty of the legal MJ market.
Taxes was one issue covered, which would drive the buyer back to other sources with the resulting crop rustling that is bound to happen.
Crop rustling would then require security measures driving legal producing entities no other choice except raising prices and (in all probability) even some deadly skirmishing.
It is much harder to rustle alcohol and pot crops would be easy pickings (no pun intended) until the hammers start dropping.