Marijuana.  They're going to legalize it, they're going to tax and regulate it.  And it's going to be agony.

The Conservatives took home growing away, so now we will have some kinda mutant private companies running this newly-decriminalized industry?...

I've been watching business and companies and how they work in the modern era.  See, people in their hunger for power skipped selling things, and started selling things that sell things, ie: companies.

So the obvious endgame of all of these "Licensed Marijuana Grower Companies" that are starting to spring up, is the eventual sale of their company, or else an IPO to a group of shareholders.

Buying or buying in, Big Tobacco, Big Alcohol, Big Pharmaceuticals or maybe Big Food will take control of the weed racket.  Where is our advantage as citizens?

How can a private company, that survives on profit, take care of a compassionate industry in any way that can be considered ethical?  How can a private profitable company take responsible charge of marketing and distributing entheogens?

How is it considered ethical, instead of letting people grow a plant, to have to construct trade pathways for fleets of trucks of pallets of bags of weed, when people could grow it in their yard?