If it were legal the only market that would boom would be fertilizers, hydroponics dealers, grow lights, etc. Is hops and barley taxed? I don't know...

We don't need laws to protect children, we need parents who give a shit. When I graduated HS, my dad said "son, your mother thinks your on drugs. But I know better. I know your on drugs." He then went through all the illicit substances, giving instruction and warning, and forbidding me to try meth. I wasn't even on drugs, I just smoked herb with my German exchange student, who liked to brag that in his town people grew canna in their backyards. Then he showed me video of him and his freunds smoking a cone as a policeman strolled by. Now those are bragging rights.

It's an offence punishable by jail for farmers in Afghanistan to save seeds from season to season. They are forced to buy every year from Monsanto or some similar corporation. I don't think this could happen in the U.S., but who knows? With the decriminalization of cannabis could come certain concessions to the fascist corporate state. You might be forced to smoke only Victory brand reefers. (Anybody catch that reference?)

YESYESYES total legalization