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Originally Posted by Potty
That's a joke, right?
Look at the costs involved with growing weed illegally here. You buy or rent a house, convert it for growing with large-scale electrical modifications and hydroponic equipment for about 500 square feet of actual crops. And you'll probably get busted within a year or two, in which time you pay to set up all over again. And these guys still make MASSIVE profits.
Now imagine the government set up a large field, put up a security fence around it with a few security guards and grew acres and acres of pot. They could do it infinitely cheaper than the black market. Each 500 square foot section would cost pennies compared to the costs of setting up a grow-op illegally. Even if they did it indoors, it would still be infinitely cheaper if it was done on a large scale.
Can you grow cucumbers in your basement cheaper than the big greenhouses can? Of course not.
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Let me be more clear.
When I asked why someone would buy legalized, taxed weed if you could grow your own, I wasn't talking about some large scale growing operation.
Of course you woud save money by growing your own
personal supply ...if it was legal to do so of course.
It is much easier to grow one plant in your yard, you can water as necessary and even provide some supplementary light for it to grow properly.
This is opposed to trying to make your own beer, or cigarettes. You could try and grow a tobacco plant on your yard, but the cigarette has much more than just tobacco leaves, therefore harder to realistically replicate.