Would?
I'm saying, today, the price of legal medical marijuana in California is higher than illegal and it has nothing to do with a regulatory burden. It has to do with greed.
Some Compassionate Use Program they got goin' on out there in the land of fruits and nuts.
"if people could grow their own without legal hassles?"
So you don't agree with the "legalize but tax the hell out of it" crowd?
Correct. They are starting to tax the hell out of cigarettes, and cigarette smuggling has already been used to fund terrorists. Sure, encouraging people to quit smoking might be a social good, but it's not clearly a purpose of government, and policies which fund terrorists are certainly bad.
Taxing the hell out of pot would bring the same problems. If you want it, grow it for free and get the government out of the transaction altogether. For those who can't or won't grow it, a small remaining market will exist, and taxes no higher than alcohol or cigarettes are taxed would be appropriate, for starters. I'd limit sales to adults only, just as for those other two drugs.
I would really like to take all the JBTs off pot enforcement and put them on the border, but that's just me.