It's a shitty law, it wasn't written with the citizens interests in mind. It was written as a taxing authority, and only big companies are going to be able to play as it is. It's a sin tax. So pot is wrong/illegal until taxes are paid on it?, unfortunately that's the way it was written, the states massive taxing of the product lets the state siphon off all of the profits to be made, with none of the overhead.
Pot should be legal to grow or possess for anyone over 18.
It should be governed by the same laws as alcohol
i.e. some of my friends brew beer, and are free to do so as they please, they can share it, but not sell it.
Want to take the criminal element out of weed? Make it ubiquitous. Take the criminality out of it, make it so that getting high or not is no big deal. So three of your neighbors are growing?, so what.
I'm ok with taxing and regulating weed as a commercial product, I think the tax is too high (25% every-time it changes hands, AND an additional local sales tax (currently the highest in the nation at 9.9%)to the end user), republicans?, libertarians?, haven't heard a peep out of them about job killing taxes and regulations on this one (funny how they pick and choose absolutes).