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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (877011)	8/1/2015 11:01:06 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576280

IOW you guys are already lobbying the state to protect the mj growers from competition. Protecting small producers: The panel encourages policymakers to not allow Big Tobacco to swoop in and dominate the fledgling legal industry. "The goal should be to prevent the growth of a large, corporate marijuana industry dominated by a small number of players, as we see with Big Tobacco or the alcohol industry." It suggests that the structure of the legal weed market should be similar to the craft beer market, "where many small players (local microbreweries) exist at one end of the scale, and larger players (regional craft breweries) exist at the other end of the scale, with plenty of room in the market for a large spectrum of entities." This issue is of major importance to small, multigenerational growers in California's "Emerald Triangle" of northern counties, where an estimated 60 percent of the nation's herb is grown. It won't work ... all the weed will be grown in big fields in KS, harvested by combine, and trucked to factories for production of packs of mary jane. Anyone can grow their own tobacco, cure it themselves and roll their own cigarettes .. but you've never seen anyone do it. Complete legalization would eliminate marijuana cultivation from the Emerald Triangle, from California as a whole.