I am not sure how this law is going to affect the ability for the local grower to thrive. Although licenses for small businesses to grow and distribute are going to be available in california, because it is not federally legalized there may be some problems with those enforcement agencies. Also, big corporations have already designed business plans around large scale grows that may push the smaller growers out of business if 19 passes. This is not including the fact that corporations have a lot of money/power and may be able to influence the federal agencies to come in and bust small scale (relatively speaking) growers that may be taking away from their business. This is what could happen, according to my paranoid mind.

Ideally, the passing of prop19 will make Cali like a US Amsterdam. This could bring people from all over the world to cali, bringing an already thriving market out from "underground". The potential for new types of cannabis oriented small businesses would only be limited by the imaginations of the people that aspire to profit from this market. Coops that are already thriving will be able to expand, and specialty shops will pop up wherever the local governments allow. Assuming that people actually continue to care about what they are putting into their body (when it comes to cannabis), private suppliers/distributors would stand to make a good deal of money and the quality of the product would only be improved by not having to continue hiding the majority of operations that are already in place.

However, california will also have a lot more border inspections on the way out, to ensure that people are not going to be crossing state lines with it. This may finally make California the independent country people have always thought it would be. Haha!

Anyway, I will be trying to figure out how I can hop on this train, if 19 passes, because I have come to find that gowing is definitely something I could do for a long time, and selling legally would basically be a dream come true.