Really? My guess is the government would see the new legal marijuana business as a great source of revenue and eventually tax it in close proximity to the taxes they impose on tobacco.
The illegal cigarette market is a very booming business. Take a little field trip. Go to your local grocery store or convenience store and look at the brands of cigarettes available and notice the prices. Next drive to a local Indian Reservation and go to a smoke shop. Take a look at the brands available and notice the prices. You will notice a whole plethora of brands that are illegal to sell of the reservation at very low prices (because they don’t have to charge taxes).
How will legalized marijuana be any different?
Agreed. See my Post #54.
Where exactly is the tobacco grown? The difference in your analogy is that the tobacco is all legally grown and being smuggled from one location to the other. In this case, the illegals are trying to fill the demand with the supply, which has to be grown illegally.
To put it another way, why isn’t tobacco being grown clandestinely in national parks? Probably because it is being grown legally on hundreds of thousands of acres in North Carolina/Virginia/Kentucky etc.