heres a WHAT IF???

ok so lets say it becomes legal and CA is all for this tax and regulate it deal..

would you guys be for it if CA kept in state strains very low on taxes while all the outside of state/country strains would be the ones being heavily taxed since those would be the product truly being 'ported' here??

that way if big business does what to devil into it they'd only get ahold of xx amount of strains and it would be the mom/pop shops who have the equal chance to deliver/grow the 'rare' strains??

good luck controlling those strains

well what im saying is since big business will have their foot in this regaurdless. why not limit them to the strains they can produce. that way the business gets its fair cut and the govt can still have its big head that its controlling it.

it makes sense doesnt it? locally grown produce always will be cheaper than stuff imported from chili or somewhere else.

There are already regulations to prevent you from getting ANY strains. Some of those regulations prevent you from getting strains from outside the USA. How are those regulations working??? Seeing as how most folks are growing strains they obtained from the Netherlands.... I would say the regs aint working. Why the fuck would anyone want to be hyper-regulated to that degree???

And just because a Farmers Market farmer grows Tomatos, Lettuce, beets, rutabegas etc locally... DOESN'T mean they got the seeds locally. It also doesnt mean they did not obtain seeds from Satan [monsato].

Perhaps someone from California can tell me how awesome hyper-regulation is, and we will start there.

fair enough. just a random thought that came to my head

The strains will work themselves out like beer did. They'll be your name brand budweiser (whatever they can produce good on a mass scale), but then they'll be your microbrews (those specialty small grows with special flavors and care). There are way too many different strains out there for one person/company to grow them all.