All right, I'd like to chime in here.
As a grower who considers herself a law-abiding citizen in a country with a couple REALLY stupid laws, I would LOVE to be able to decrease the number of laws I'd be breaking by cultivating. The small amount of product that I sell, cheap, to legitimate med users- I'd like to be able to track that as income along with the income from my legitimate job, and pay taxes on it, and have it counted towards my total worth when it comes time to apply for my next mortgage or car loan.
It totally sucks to be marginalized in other ways.

Oh- And that's how they got Capone....