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