Quote Originally Posted by icybonghitman
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Amen, bro. Any smoker against prop 19 has the most selfish reasons. Boo hoo that your long term career prospects as a weed grower aren't going to work out. ZeroWingX, so you want other people to go to jail just so you can charge exorbitant prices to your "patients"? I hope you get busted and go to jail.
I agree with your point, but do we have to wish people get busted?

I want people to be able to grow their own, and grow for others who don't have the resources to grow their own. I want safe, taxed, controlled cannabis, not some chemical-laden GMO monstrosity from Monsanto.

Prop 19 is the first battle of a very long war. If you're afraid (as I am,) that Oaksterdam or some other rich players will squeeze out the smaller growers, get active in your community. Reason with people.

Whats better, lots of small growers making the best product they can for a tidy, if not huge profit, or a few big growers using their money to ice out the competition with outrageous start-up costs that mom-n-pop can never manage?

If history is any teacher, we'll end up with the latter, unless we get involved! Budweiser may be the king of beers, but the microbrewers do well by offering something special. Let's make sure there's a place for the small-scale local growers. Keep the licensing fees down. Keep commercial growing spaces reasonably small. Encourage competition.

This is a time where somebody with a good idea and not a lot of money can do well, if we have a level playing field. it's up to us to make sure that happens.