Not the pharmaceutical industry, Pinkus. All the largest corporations will invest significant funds to develop effective medicine. This is a different industry, with different motives.
You just did agree. That is what I'm saying about the recreational market. This is the reason that I'm investing time into the marijuana industry, but not the medicinal focus.
you have an idealized view of the pharma industry, and what growing weed will look like in the future. wont be guys in lab coats growing in class 9 cleanroom, with several tens of millions in environmental controls. maybe they'll start 'growing' synthetic cannabinoids in a vial, and pop it into a pill... but if they source it from a real plant, it'll be like commercial corn production... and if lucky (like if they absolutely had to do it), filtering & isolating actives from everything else that was applied during the grow cycle.
but as a human consumable for recreational purposes, we'll here all the rhetoric for a clean product w rigorous quality controls that only specialized commercial growers can accomodate... only under a licensed & regulated market can such quality be assured. which is all crap, just like usda & fda & epa effectiveness in managing other public safety concerns. but, point being, very few will be left to legally grow & it wont be boutique... if we look to how the whole industry is shaping up. quality will be controlled & defined by the large commercial growers... and good enough is the name of that game, good enough to be profitable enough... the bottom line of a commercialized weed industry. if you want to grow/be allowed to grow in that world... you'l have to be able to pump out enough product to meet expectations & margins, and has to be good enough to sell & hit your goals... will be on the scale of any other commercial crop, with crop dusting & all. wont be indoors in a controlled enviro, nor boutiquey. to play, will have to become part of the problem... recreational or otherwise.
my take on it at least.