[PowderMonkey]

"If the law allows people to grow their own without withering taxes, the price will plummet as soon as the first crop is in."

The first crop is in. Demand is skyrocketing. At $400 per ounce. That a far cry from the days when illegal "Colombian Gold" sold at a whopping $35 per ounce, brought into the U.S. one laborious plane load at a time. Bottom line, I can refute your position with one family name: Kennedy. Old Joe didn't make his money running rum during prohibition. He made his money and accumulated political influence because he was in place and ready to profit handsomely from established networks when prohibition was repealed. Political corruption can't exist in an environment of freedom and limited government? Really?

[William Tell]

PowderMonkey said: "Political corruption can't exist in an environment of freedom and limited government? "

Please provide an example of Kennedy's political corruption that isn't an example of excess government control.

Also, when I smoked tobacco years ago, I consumed one to two packs a day, perhaps thirty cigarettes. Would that habit cost $7 per day now?

What's so different about marijuana that delivering thirty cigarettes per day would have to cost more than $10? I'm pretty sure that's in the neighborhood of an ounce.