My default position, since long before anyone even thought of marijuana as "medicine," has been that the government, especially the Feds but also locally, should not regulate something without demonstrating a reason that regulation is necessary. I mean REALLY necessary, not just because they can. I see no reason that growing marijuana should be regulated. Nobody wants to regulate the number of tomato plants I grow, and if they did I would ask the same question: "Explain to me the need for regulation."

And with respect to taxation, it is theft accomplished with the explicit threat of violence, and no less so because that threat comes from the government. From a more practical and less philosophical perspective, ANY more funding for the government is invariably a bad thing, regardless of the subject of the taxation. People tend to complain only when the proposed tax is on something they personally care about.

I have never understood the vitriol on this site re: dispensaries. Don't patronize them! Who gives a shit. Many options are available. Grow your own. Go underground.