I understand that, but I honestly think the window will close for making decent money from growing in about 5 years everywhere once there is some type of goverment regulation, I don't think it's possible to maintain the culture and legal climate you have out there indefinatly, if not this bill, then another, and not to far in the future either.
I think everyone needs to set themselves up to make as much money as possible during this transition period (5 years for the nation once something passes) and get ready to take your earnings and transition into some other line of work and back to just hobby growing.
I look at cali like a goldmine that's almost played out, but the other states are still mines where people can make their fortunes(well, little reasonable size fortunes) if they act fast.
One way or the or the other things will end, and we'll talk about the good old days like the ex moonshiners.
I do see both sides here, and I think this bill is the begining of the end for things as we know them now, but the window of oppurtunity to make yourself a little stake in life has not closed yet, and won't for a while.
This of course is all IMO.
It will be played out if you don't go big. Yes many moonshiners for instance are nowhere to be seen now however those who decided to go bigger and better and market correctly are still around. Also with your "new line of work thing", that is exactly how nascar was built by rum runners so yes there will always be other things that can be done if you get out of the growing scene itself.
It will of course remove those who think they can just grow an elbow and unload it without having to work for it. Easy come easy go but if you do it correctly you could be the next jim beam for the weed scene.
Just like walmarts removing small stores, some make it because they changed their marketing tactics and others couldn't keep up because all they relied on was the walk ins simply because they were the only shops in the area. You can make it if you adapt with the market but if you don't, you odds are can see where that ends up.
I don't care for the government regulations but look at our country, that is how people THINK it needs to be and if you want that removed from this market then it would FIRST need to be removed from many others health, cars, stocks, big business, unions, free cash aid, section 8 and a MILLION other things that need to go away.
You can't have one market ran completely different as the others especially if it becomes legal. Now if we can get it legalized we can work on decriminalization of it later on if we fight hard for it BUT would need to change the federal hold over the states rights first.