I have thought about this alot over the past few years and I look at it this way. The government and big buisness will always have there hand in anything that is legal as long as they can make money, shit lately it seems it's the same even if it's not legal. My take on it is this, if you could go to the store and buy a pack of joints for 20$ would you? Hell yes. If the tabaco industry can produce and sell cigarettes for 5$ a pack, and most of that is tax were I come from, than they should be able to do the same with marijuana without changeing any of there setups.
This leads us to why I say 20$ a pack. If you don't grow your own how much would end up paying for a bag that you could get 20 joints out of, I'll tell you it's more than 20$ where I live. So you ask where the other 15$ goes, to the government of course. That's the only way they will ever concider legalization, money in their pockets. Plus think about how fast our country could get out of debt.
The best part of this plan is it should be treated just like alcohal. If you can make your own beer legally that you would also be able to grow your own grass. The best part, they could use the byproduct to produce clothing, paper, ect., ect.
I know a lot of people out there won't agree with me but it's the best shot I see of us being able to smoke our grass without getting any shit from the man.
peace, redeyed