CA created a huge illegal pot farm problem by taxing the legal crop to death and then making growing illegally a misdemeanor.
This is only the “law of unintended consequences” for STUPID people who could not see these consequences.
I grew a bit of pot back in the mid-70’s in Seattle. It’s really pretty easy. I’ve not touched the stuff since 1977, but if I did now, I’d just grow my own. But then, I live in the heart of Cornbread Mafia country. Seeds are still easy to come by.
Copperhead Road might as well be the biography of this area. In fact, it may be.
Yes, people think California decriminalized and deregulated marijuana.
All they really did was try to use their power to create their own highly restrictive monopoly over a harmful vice.
Basically what mafia-gangsters do, with the approval of law