In general I don’t care. The issue is this: the recreational cannabis legalization bill requires licensed growers. Licensed growers have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get said licenses. I know one who had to get up in front of his community and convince them that his use of water for cannabis would be a net benefit for the area he lives in.

Unlicensed growers don’t have any of those restrictions. They could have grown that cannabis off of tap water. They don’t have to invest in all the tracking equipment, or the security and what not. They didn’t jump through the hoops. So that outside cannabis has kind of an unfair advantage in a saturated growers market. Hell, that cannabis could have come from out of state. Out of state cannabis would bring the wrong kind of attention from the Feds.

I’m anti regulation, but currently a regulated cannabis market is the world we live in, so those are the rules we have to play by.

I think a lot of people were expecting to make their fortune growing. Sort of like how the medical cannabis producers had a lock on the market until rec was legalized. And there was a shortage when rec first went legal, meaning those initial growers really cashed in. New business owners need to do their due diligence before starting a new company.