Is that the case with alcohol today? Is it a serious crime to make your own gin?
Yep. Especially if you serve or sell a few bottles of it to your friends.
Of course not. Millions of people do it. Every day.
Just like 98% percent of smokers who do an end-run against cigarettte taxes by growing and rolling their own.
(do I really need a sarc tag?)
So. Here’s what is gonna happen when pot is legalized:
First of all we legitimize the drug cartels. All of a sudden MS-13 become like the Mafia. More power and control.
Next, we market it to kids. Like Joe Camel, remember?
Third, we open up the need to build new prisons for the stoners too lazy and stupid to work. They turn to crime.
Next, the welfare state explodes with triple digit growth.
And on and on we go!
I think you can get a license to distill small amounts for personal use. But you MUST get a license and meet a whole slough of requirements.