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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
The pot is going to be available in the equivalent of a liquor store, and it is also going to be allowed to be grown for private use. My guess is both will thrive, so to speak. But that doesn't have anything to do with interstate trafficking. For those of you who are less than a certain age, back in the old days different states had different drinking ages. So a person could go across state lines and buy booze and bring it back to their home state. But that was still illegal, and if caught they would be punished for underage possession. The state where it's illegal doesn't care where the underage person got it. The same rules would apply for OTC pot sales. Just because you can buy it and smoke it in Washington doesn't mean you can buy it and carry it into another state. Will they? Of course. Just like kids drink while underage. But not making it legal doesn't keep that from happening.
The tax issue is a good question. Will people choose to buy their pot pre-prepped, or grow, dry, and process their own? How much is your convenience worth? My guess is there will be plenty of stores doing just fine, and there will be people who enjoy growing their own. Both can coexist. I'm certainly more comfortable with the home grown because I see it as having less social blow back. But I'm ok with either way. And other states will learn from initial mistakes and improve the process over the next 20 years.
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Are you speaking about Colorado? From what I read about the WA initiative in order to grow or produce MJ you would have to apply for a license and pay a yearly fee of $1000. Even then you wouldn't be able to sell it directly to consumers, only wholesale to the pot shops. It sounded to me that if you were to have a MJ plant in your house or backyard it would be considered illegal production of MJ.