Straight out legal for recreational use would drop prices on herb because everyone would start growing. The supply would INCREASE. Dispensaries will never be for complete legalization, they will always be against it.They don't even like mom n pop caregivers because it takes away from their potential earnings. You think dispensaries would like herb dropping down to $50-$75 an ounce for top grade herb?...hell no. They would make no money. I agree with Rick Simpson's view, the Canadian grower who fled to Europe after growing 1000's of plants for THC oil and giving it away to cancer people, he believes as I do that a pound of herb should be around the price of buying a pound of flour or sugar and that the ILLEGALITY of marijuana is the reason why the plant is so costly.
If you strip away the laws, more people would start growing it, the supply would increase 100+ fold. Most people don't grow it because they fear jail, losing their job, their house, their family. Even a lot of MMJ users fear growing because of the threat of legal trouble as well as the fear of evictions from landlords. Real legalization would end these fears and marijuana would start springing up everywhere. Imagine 1-out-of-5 households having a closet grow, with that kind of production all over the state there is no way MMJ would still sell for $250-$300 an ounce in dispensaries.So many people would start growing that before wouldn't because of legality issues that the supply would be so big that you'd see people giving it away.
For those that say legalization would not drop prices, you are wrong. Legalization would increase supply as well as access.The Fed's would blow hot air, make idle threats after a state passed full legalization and there is one way the Fed's can be stopped , even now. A COUNTY SHERIFF has the authority to prevent any Federal law enforcement agency from operating in the county that the Sheriff is voted in. You start putting Constitutional Sheriff's in office that don't bow to the Fed's and you can keep Federal LEO's out of the county they oversee.
The Sheriff has more power than the President -
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan192.htm
Sheriff Tony DeMeo of Nye County ,NV promised the Fed's who at one time were conducting illegal search and seizures of cattle in his county that if they showed up with their SWAT team they would face his SWAT team. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3hZCKAAizI
For those that say the DEA would still raid people after legalization , if you had a Sheriff with a backbone who was pro-Constitutional and stood for the people's wishes, he or she has the power to order the DEA out of the county. Finding pro-Constitutional Sheriffs are hard but the power that they have is greater than most people are aware of. Most are sell-outs to the Feds because they like getting that Federal funding from tax payers but as the U.S. is on the brink of a nationwide economic collapse , the days of funding are coming to an end. The country could gain it's freedom back one county at a time through voting in pro-Constitutional Sheriffs.
It makes me sick to hear disillusioned uber-patriotic people claim the U.S. is a free country, and sing the star spangled banner with misty eyes , and go on and on about being the best in the world but yet the U.S. has 25% of the world's incarcerated but being only 5% of the world's population.