Quote Originally Posted by HighPopalorum
You sound like you're coming around. Obviously, if your wife is one of your patients, you have more than a profit-based interest in providing the best marijuana. I'm a pro-regulation liberal guy, but I would support any exceptions, any exemptions that allowed small growers like yourself to serve more patients who needed your meds. Hell, I don't even think non-commercial growers should even have to register with the state as caregivers. However, (and this is the rub) when caregivers sell marijuana beyond their family and friends, they really aren't caregivers any more, but businesses... and that means taxes, regulation etc. Kathleen, for example, sold pot to thousands of people, but isn't willing to go through the state licensing process and inspection regime! Nuts!
You've still never satisfactorily explained why cannabis is deserving of regulation of any kind. Or is it that you believe the government should be able to regulate "because it's there?" I guess if liberty is seen as having no value , in a cost/benefit analysis of regulation, liberty as a cost will always lose out to regulation, even if the benefits of regulation are marginal, uncertain, or even non-existent.