Don't they tax the loose tobacco the same as the factory cigs?
I just bought my annual bag of pipe tobacco, and didn't pay much attention how much of it was taxed.
Personally, I'm too lazy to roll my own "fags"; the pipe is easier in my opinion.
As to growing tobacco; they use "hothouses" and such to grow marijuhanna up here year round, don't they?
I would suppose that if you had a good sized barn or greenhouse, that you could probably culture a sufficient tax-free crop to feed your personal addiction for a while.
And you could probably get all the info you neen on drying, curing, and processing it on the internet.
Since it's a legal crop, they can't bust you for growning it like it was pot, can they? The only way you could get in trouble with the law is if you tried to sell it without collecting the tax, I suppose, much like "moonshine".
The last I knew you could set up a still and run off about 55 gallons of "white lightning" as long as it was for your "personal use" and not sold to anyone.
If you (and perhaps a few close friends) "consumed" your product as you went along, how are the Revenooer's ever going to prove if or when you've surpassed your 55 gallon annual allotment, I wonder?
Home - grown obacco is probably a similar deal, don't you think?
Has anyone ever really tried growing tobacco at home in this sort of climate?
Any homeowner is permitted to grown up to 1/10th of an acre (appoximately 4,300 sqf) of tobacco for personal use without any problem.
when it comes to the climate for growing it, as far as I know it can be grown in all 50 states and is grown in Canada - one just has to find the type acclimated to the territory.
No, there is just a surcharge of 25 cents per bag of loose tobacco.
As to growing tobacco; they use "hothouses" and such to grow marijuhanna up here year round, don't they?
I have no clue about pot.
Has anyone ever really tried growing tobacco at home in this sort of climate?
I am too lazy to plant a garden much less try growing my own tobacco and drying it, etc. LOL! But way up here, the winters are so long and summers can be very damp, that I don't think this kind of climate is good for growing tobacco. A greenhouse would be the best way to go I guess, if someone was really serious about growing their own tobacco.
Yes, you could grow your own tobacco, and dry and cure it, but what is really going to be tough, is putting in the 100 chemical carciogenics that they say that are in purchased tobacco.