[Beagle8U]

How much is invested in growing all those tomatoes, how many employees? Very few farmers are getting rich, and zero of the employees.

The states would make zero or close to that if pot was totally legal. Everyone could easily grow all they could possibly use. Unlike tomatoes, it won’t spoil and is easy to freeze.

Tomatoes have to be picked at perfect ripeness, they then have a very short shelf life. That isn’t the case with pot, harvest, dry, into a zip-lock and toss in the freezer.

[Ken H]

So how did medical mj become a billion dollar industry in CA alone, despite the fact that patients can grow their own?

Any adult in CO can grow their own, yet pot stores are doing a booming business.

[Tailback]

Very few farmers are getting rich

Bwahahahahaha! That's funny! I have a job that puts me into close contact with farmers constantly. Farmers have no income on their income tax filing, but are worth multi millions here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. You want to take a ride with me here so I can show you all the farmer McMansions where they house their trophy wives from Oregon State University? You want to know how many farmers have houses in Hawaii? Every single one that I know.

Here's a question I have asked every single farmer I meet. What percentage of the cost of a single tomato is directly attributed to human labor? Still waiting for an answer.