I take it that you don’t garden, and that you have never grown pot then.
Growing pot is easy, it is a pretty, and sturdy plant, it produces a huge amount of the drug, and the drug has a long shelf life.
If it becomes legal, there won’t be taxes and controls over it. Pot will simply become ubiquitous, and free, and near free.
Will the store carry some taxed product in a nice package, sure, but only for the upscale and impulse buyers, gifts and hobbyists and gardeners who don’t even smoke, will take care of the rest, I don’t smoke, but I will grow the plant, I always regret having to throw them away and kill them.
We grew tomatoes a few summers ago. With relatively little effort, we got good-tasting produce - whereas the pot you grew was useless for mind alteration.
and that you have never grown pot then.
Growing pot is easy [...] I don’t smoke
Growing ditchweed is easy; growing mind-altering pot is not, as I've shown with a thoroughly footnoted article.