im not going to get into an argument about laws but obviously you dont care about the law as you grow cannabis. thats why i dont understand why you would be happy to let the government to tell you what you can and cant do. i personally will continue to grow whatever the legal situation of this plant is regardless of what some prick in parliment says.
I'm not trying to challenge anyone but I grow cannabis and I do care about the law. If there was number where I could be certain I'd not face a fine or caution (or ideally confiscation) I'd stick to the law and sign petitions and write letters to parliament and go to protests.
As it is there's no guaranteed number where people are not at risk from having their name put on some kind of list of narcotic producing criminals.
If I could sign up as a legally self-medicating grower and grow 9 plants (or even as few as 4 or 5) without persecution or prosecution I'd be happy to stick to those numbers and keep working within the system to extend the limits.
Just because you feel one law is invalid or exploitative and you can't in good conscience adhere to it doesn't mean you hold the legal system in contempt.
I don't hate the political or legal system, the judiciary or the police. All of them have some (sometimes a lot of) corruption in them, all of them have signifficant problems with the way they're operated and obviously they all have bad people within them but not every police officer or politician is a bastard, not all of them want to enforce this damned prohibition but it's their job so they do it.
I'm only a criminal because the law gives me no other choice, if it gave me a limited choice I'd say "that's a start, let's see where this goes".
I think a lot of us feel the same?