“Have any evidence for your suspect claim?”
Other than press out of Oregon and Northern California, some drug wars in Tennessee and Kentucky, Indiana and the mid west mess, other nickel and dime operations get hit by gangs etc.... highway truck jackings on I-81 up through Virginia, requests by senators looking for additional funding to combat trafficking on interstate corridors going up the Eastern seaboard; no.
But then again, this is uncharted territory. With 40 something other states looking for resource. Supply and demand and all of that pesky side action. Human nature, greed etc...
Seems doubtful, as it's widely reported - on FR and elsewhere - that CA medical pot has been so laxly regulated as to be a legalization in all but name. Have any evidence for your suspect claim?
You seem to have provided "evidence" for a suspect claim other than "medicinal product growing was at much smaller scale". But let's go ahead and look at this "evidence":
Other than press out of Oregon and Northern California,
What's that press say?
some drug wars in Tennessee and Kentucky, Indiana and the mid west mess,
No legalization there, so no possible support for your claims about what will happen under legalization.
other nickel and dime operations get hit by gangs etc....
Be a little more vague, could you?
highway truck jackings on I-81 up through Virginia,
I-81 doesn't run through any states that have legalized, so again no possible support for your claims about what will happen under legalization.
requests by senators looking for additional funding to combat trafficking on interstate corridors going up the Eastern seaboard; no.
And you'd have us believe that these senators are concerned about trafficking because they want to prevent pot robberies?
But then again, this is uncharted territory. With 40 something other states looking for resource.
If by "resouce" you mean pot: all 50 states have been supplied with pot before there were any legal growers to rob, and it will remain the case that targets of theft offer resistance while dirt offers no resistance to seeds.
Supply and demand and all of that pesky side action. Human nature, greed etc...
Nobody said legal pot growers alone among Americans would be immune to thieves - just that there's no sound reason to expect "countless" instances of pot-theft gunplay.