My question is that your proposal doesn't support the taxation of any aspect of legalized MJ, and that would, IMO, create an exceptional situation, where MJ is not the equivalent of any other agricultural commodity. Legalization should equal Normalization and MJ should be just another product, subject to gov regulation and taxation like any other.

There probably are state-by-state limits on how much beer/wine you can produce at home, but you don't hear of raids on homes for illegal alcohol production (Maybe moonshine). Nor is there a licensing requirement for manufacturing beer and wine at home. I can't see how there could be such a requirement for a substance you grow in your garden if it is legal. Commerce is another matter and is rightly subject to 'big gov' taking its cut (some may disagree, but I like taxes; they are used for stuff that I consider essential to my well=being). If Anheuser-Busch starts marketing MJ, I want the government to get a cut.

I think governments, local, state and fed, would seek to regulate commerce, but not private growing. If the government can't win 'the war on drugs', how can they expect to control private cultivation and consumption? Go from house to house looking for 5 plants at a time?

I think, also, that most MJ users, would prefer someone else to grow their weed, so there would still be a healthy commercial market which would provide plenty of government revenue from the buyer side, not the seller side.

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