I had a very long talk with a young person Monday actually who is your age, just starting college, and was interested in getting into the business.
The word 'business' being key.

I'll tell you what I told her, and you can take it for what it's worth. She's a SMART girl for whom I have a lot of respect, hard working too- I wasn't trying to discourage her out of any lack of confidence that she could do it; rather, because she WILL succeed in a normal career, and you NEED that in your life for some stability. If she goes down, it will ruin her ability to get hired after graduation, because of the background checks that are becoming the norm.
Do your thing, do your school, stabilize your life FIRST. Don't count on pot for income.
I told her, you don't want to get involved in this dirty business now. Your friends are young too- they aren't stable either. They add another element over which you have no control.
It's not fun living in a house that has been robbed 3 times in 3 years, and not being able to call the cops! It's not fun waking up in the middle of the night because you heard a coyote going through your rubbish and thought it was the cops. While you are in college, you don't need that added stress.
After school, when you have a job, and your friends have jobs, everyone has about the same stake in it- my friends have careers; they have a lot to lose too. The people who know about my smoking and even growing, have so much to lose themselves that it is in their best interest to be as discreet as I am.
An outdoor grow that you can do in the summer when you aren't busy with classwork is not a bad idea, and since it is away from your home, you don't have to lose sleep over a knock on your door.
I started growing when I was 26. I made mistakes. I've had close calls. I was VERY lucky to have a local mentor who would call me out on stupidity- I'm not a dumb person; I literally have a genius IQ, but that and an expired inspection sticker will land you by the side of the road with a load of coco fiber under a blanket on the back seat going OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT. lol... More balls than brains, my friends tell me sometimes.

It's just something to think about.