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Alcohol is different than marijuana.If legalized, farmers will try to get more TCH content per acre, thereby raising the income. Why buy wimpy dope for the same price as kickass dope?

I disagree. My local bar serves a beer for $2.00 and a basic mixed drink for 2.50. The price is nearly equal to my mind but you'll normally find me drinking a beer.

There will always be the fools that go after "kickass" liquor: Absolut 100, Jagermeister, etc. Though Dickel & Jack Daniels are made at about the same costs of production, the higher (or the belief of) higher proof liquor will be priced above the "standard" brands. Mainstream drinkers will go with a Dickel and water, while the young bucks will pay the premium for the cachet brands.

"Alcohol is different than marijuana. If legalized, farmers will try to get more TCH content per acre, thereby raising the income. Why buy wimpy dope for the same price as kickass dope?"

Because there is a point of diminishing returns. It is apparently difficult and expensive to grow really powerful marijuana. That stuff is grown hydroponically indoors under expensive lights. Temperature, humidity and CO2 levels are kept at optimal levels. The proper nutrient level and ph and all of that stuff have to be maintained. From what I have read it is very labor intensive and requires a lot of specialized high dollar equipment.

My guess is that there would still be a market for that type of marijuana, but there would also always be a market for average quality marijuana such as the Mexican that most people in America can buy cheaply on the streets today. This stuff is grown in large fields. They grow it from seed instead of from female cuttings, leave the male plants in the field and let the bud get pollinated and go to seed. Then they pay little attention to drying, curing, manicuring and storing. These are quantity over quality operations. I imagine American farmers would take better care of it and grow better quality outdoor pot so they could command a higher price to make up for increased labor costs, but I don't see everyone setting up indoor grows and shooting for the the most powerful stuff they could possibly grow. For one thing, I suspect that there would be some limits on potency imposed by law, and probably graduated taxing schemes that tax the more potent stuff more than the average stuff.

Aside from that there is another important factor to consider and that is that not everyone likes the super powerful stuff. I have read that average potency of sinsemilla in coffeeshops in Amsterdam is about the same as it is here and in other European countries, somewhere between 12 and 15% THC. I also read that the Dutch tend to buy marijuana that is lower than the average strength while visiting foreigners are more likely to be looking for the most powerful stuff.

That makes sense to me because I know that when I was smoking pot I didn't really like expensive super weed either, both because I thought it was a rip off and because I didn't like that it made it so hard to keep from getting "over-stoned." I was always a lightweight when it came to that stuff but I could take two or three or maybe even four puffs of the average stuff and still just have a mild buzz. It seemed like with that other stuff one puff or even a half sized puff too much could mean the difference between a mild, pleasant buzz and several hours of sitting there like a zombie wishing I would just come down. I don't think I am unique at all in that regard. People don't want crappy ditch weed that they'll have to choke down a big fat joint or more of just to feel the mild head change, but on the other hand they don't necessarily want pot that is so strong that it is sort of the relative equivalent of doing shots of pure grain alcohol.

Do you think people would all go to all the trouble to grow stuff indoors if they could just plant a whole bunch outside and let nature take it's course? The main reason people grow indoors is because of security. It's too easy to get caught if it's grown outdoors. Americans can't get away with growing huge fields like they do south of the border. Indoor space comes at a premium price though and indoor growing is expensive and labor intensive so growers make up for that by growing the most powerful stuff they can grow. There would be much less incentive to grow indoors if marijuana was legal and people could grow larger plots outdoors for a much lower initial investment and with much lower labor, equipment and fertilizer costs.