If California legalizes marijuana, how would they be able to tax it if people could just grow their own?

Watch out!

California is on the path to setting up a Marijuana Grower's Union.

Obama LOVES Unions. He can send in their thugs and claim no responsibility for the burning of your home and the deaths of your wife and children when your deception is discovered.

The drug lords won't be making the money off the demands for drugs any more. Obama, his Elitist friends and the Unions will take your money instead.

People wouldn't grow their own.

Marijuana isn't some hillbilly planting seeds out back anymore.

They'd buy the store bought kind, because it is much more powerful and doesn't involve dealing with some sketchy drug dealer, who will say anything to get your money. Anyone who has ever bought drugs would welcome stopping at 7-11 over dealing with the average pot dealer.

Amateurs simply can't compete.

California would likely take a page from Colorado's books and require the same strict inventory control to prevent black market distribution from legit growers.

People can legally make home brew right now but that doesn't prevent the government taxing beer. The exact same thing will happen with cannabis.

Yes - it's called the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and before you start throwing insults around, don't you think it's funny that prohibitionists like you have such scant knowledge about what you support and are so ready to abuse those who are different from you while "potheads" and "stoners" like me take the time to learn the facts and bend over backwards to treat other people with respect? Obviously facts aren't very important to you but here's some current statistics about what you're supporting anyway:

850,000 people were arrested in the U.S. last year for marijuana offenses while at the same time marijuana use in this country went **up** by 8%. We taxpayers get *nothing* back for the $40 billion a year we pay for the prohibition! Every year, $113 billion is spent on marijuana in the U.S., and because of the federal prohibition *every* dollar of it goes straight into the hands of criminals. Far from preventing people from using marijuana, the prohibition instead creates zero legal supply amid massive and unrelenting demand.

According to the ONDCP, at least sixty percent of Mexican drug cartel money comes from selling marijuana in the U.S., the cartels protect this revenue by brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering countless innocent people.

If we can STOP people using marijuana then we need to do so NOW, but if we can't then we must legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax prices set too low for the cartels to match. One way or the other, we have to force the cartels out of the marijuana market and end their highly lucrative marijuana incomes - no business can withstand the loss of sixty percent of its revenue!

To date, the cartels have amassed more than 100,000 "foot soldiers" and operate in 230 U.S. cities, and the longer the cartels are allowed to exploit the prohibition the more powerful they're going to get and the more our own personal security will be put in jeopardy.

It's legal in the Netherlands so I don't know what treaty with the UN you're dreaming about. In California you can get a medical card that allows you to buy it, and from what I understand from my friend who moved to Cali last month from NY and already has a card (he's not ill) it's not hard to come by.

I haven't smoked in years, and I could care less if they legalize it or not. Right now its illegal in most states, but it's not hard to come by so it might as well be legal. When was the last time you heard of a pothead committing a robbery because he needed money to get some tree? NEVER! The government criminalization of marijuana is a waste of tax money, but that's par for the course (I hate golf) with this government.

The only bad thing about weed is having to listen to ignorant idealistic hippies who want a utopian society where everyone can just get along and love man ... and course smoke weed all day without having to go to work. F HIPPIES ALL DAY !!!

The proposition on the ballot #19 is to legalize the sale of pot in order to tax the sales since California has a 9.6% sales tax. The opponents want only medical marijuana taxed, not marijuana sold to everyone.

people would grow it but to smoke i mean it is simple but its like trying to have a veggie garden in the backyard its "complicated". The only people growing it would be just bored or find it as a hobby or just want to make a garden look pretty like the mexicans do with the tequila plant its pretty so alot grow it just for that. If Californians want to legalize we legalize we could give a sh.. if its illegal under fed law, we voted for it and we will do it anyway.

There would be special provisions for those who grow their own. Just like people who brew their own beer. Don't know about the United Nations having anything to do with it. If a law is unpopular enough, people will simply not abide by it. Historically proven, again and again.

They are going to grow it and smoke it regardless if it is taxed, illegal, or legal... it simply doesn't matter. The state of California would be happy just to get a few cent tax on a dollar right now if they could from anywhere right now... they are hurting. I would say California would be the first state to go into martial law when it hits the fan, it will spread like their wildfires!

The last time I checked, the Netherlands was a part of the UN.

So no, there is no "UN treaty" on marijuana legalization.

Also, it's like getting eggs: Would you rather go through the time consuming and costly process of raising a chicken and then getting an egg when it matures, or just buy it from a store? The same logic applies to pot.

Most people are unable to grow their own plants. For example, anyone could grow their own corn, tomatoes, potatoes, but grocery stores are in business in every town. Some people don't have the land. Some the time. Some the know how. It would be too costly for Uncle Sam to chase every gardener in the backyard.