Freedom said:

but even if they only legalize it in a way that makes it expensive and gives big profits to businesses and government, wouldn't this be a move in the right direction? Once they admit that it is not going to destroy your life, they will have to lower the penalties for someone growing pot, because then the grower isn't thought of as a distributer of poison, just someone going around the system like the moonshiners, the moonshiners who are not nearly as heavily prosceuted as the pot growers are now today.

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Morican said:

I've grown twice in my life before all this medical marijuana legal right to grow and I did it in a smaller area than 5x5 and yielded almost enough (my second time) to almost supply myself and my best friend in bud for a year, but I had to store in the fridge and freezer.

There are ways around the 5x5 restrictions, or rather ways to maximize the small space.

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Entropymancer said:

It's clear their interest is in making obscene profits off cannabis users, not promoting their civil liberties.  They fired one of their faculty, a longstanding member of the medical cannabis and legalization movements, simply for expressing his belief that people should be allowed to grow their own cannabis without paying exorbitant taxes.

I don't have any problem with some taxation if that's what it takes to make it legal in the short-term.... but it's clear that Oaksterdam's priority is not legalization, but simply making fat stacks of cash.

Fuck them and the horse they rode in on

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