[pawdoggie]

Now, the dopers would get to smoke their extremely expensive legal weed... What makes you think the price would increase to the point of being "extremely expensive"?

If you read the rest of my post, you'd find that "regulating MJ like alcohol", as the author suggested, would include taxing it. Since this would be a "sin tax" (like gambling or alcohol), it would be a hefty tax.

[philman_36]

If you read the rest of my post...
I did read the rest of your post. And I'm obtuse...?!
Since this would be a "sin tax" (like gambling or alcohol), it would be a hefty tax.
You have no way of knowing that. You're making a guess, a supposition. Since you have nothing to measure such action against you have no way of knowing what the price will do or what the taxes would be.
Furthermore, taxes haven't slowed down the sale of beer and it isn't "extremely expensive" even with the taxes on it so I don't see the comparison as valid.

[KDD]

No distillation process to growing pot.

It grows wild and can be planted almost anywhere.

One row of pot plants in a vegetable garden would supply the gardener and his neighbor with enough pot for a year. Very few people know how to make their own booze. Anyone can plant a seed.

The "bootleg" argument is bogus...as is the tax argument for basically the same reason.

The only profit in producing pot commercially would be for the hydroponic growers.

[cryptical]

Since this would be a "sin tax" (like gambling or alcohol), it would be a hefty tax.

I see this notion all the time, so-called conservatives advocating for new high taxes on a product.

Kind of reveals where they're at, if you know what I mean.