My preference would be that it just be deregulated and it’s sale treated as any other cultivated crop but I acknowledge there needs to be some amount of regulatory framework around cannabis. So I think speaking practically a tax on sales and a fee for a retail license or cultivation of like six plants or more that pays for the office that issues the licenses and a commercial cultivation facility inspector to protect consumers from bad growing practices is kinda a necessity. Some amount of tax revenue to the state would also be a benefit.

Selling cannabis and liquor and using the threat of punishment to stop others from doing it is awfully authoritarian. The state shouldn’t be a vice cartel.