Have the new legalization laws generally made home-growing legal? From the commentary I've come across, they've thrown up a huge amount of obstacles to growing, where even medium-sized business find it onerous to enter the industry. The qualifications for growing seem to have been designed to throw directly to cronies.
Easy individual growing could depress the market enough that the state tax boon that legalization has been promoted as would be largely eaten up. It would basically be a license for individuals to grow enough to supply a small number of people by proxy. In that case, if there isn't an Uber for it within days, I'd be surprised.
Pragmatically, what states are trying to do is replace the cartels (and grab their profits) rather than eliminate them; laws are likely to look like what the cartels would write if they were the state.
> Have the new legalization laws generally made home-growing legal?
Here in Oregon, they made it legal for people to grow some small number of plants at home. Maybe 4 or 6 or something like that.
I'm not sure how popular this is in practice. Personally I don't know of anyone doing it. But on the other hand, I think the plants are required to be out of sight (eg in the back yard). So for all I know there are probably a few in my neighborhood and I'll never know.
Easy individual growing could depress the market enough that the state tax boon that legalization has been promoted as would be largely eaten up. It would basically be a license for individuals to grow enough to supply a small number of people by proxy. In that case, if there isn't an Uber for it within days, I'd be surprised.
Pragmatically, what states are trying to do is replace the cartels (and grab their profits) rather than eliminate them; laws are likely to look like what the cartels would write if they were the state.