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The market will get much smaller for people who want to sell cannabis because lots of consumers will grow it themselves.

Many cannabis dealer will also try to start larger growing operations. Same thing happened in the Netherlands.



Just this. It's called weed for something. Sure, growing high grade stuff it's expensive and hard, but that's not what most people are consuming anyway.


Actually, growing your own is still illegal in Washington. Colorado limits each person to 6 plants. Will be interesting to see how the difference effects the markets.


Actually, if either of these conditions are met, it's legal to grow in Washington:

  * Medical cannabis patient (limited to some small number of plants, like CO), or
  * State-licensed grower under I-502




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