Quote Originally Posted by Loafyboy
...This would mean they would have total contol over the production and distribution. You can bet it will still be illegal to cultivate your own, just like tobacco.
Not true. Even though the tobacco companies would have the big upper-hand with distribution and market share, growing it for your Cannabis Boutique would remain legal...as long as you pay the taxes. Alcohol and micro-breweries as an example.

Altho commercial ops are always of lesser quality than smaller (personal) grows, if the quality fades, so will their proffits. My biggest fear of the tobacco companies and the retail cannabis products, from oils to cookies...from hash to cured cannasmokes...what are they going to add to make it more addictive or disease and insect-resistant, or grow faster, or...?