It's only '50k in a backpack that can't be controlled or taxed' because it's illegal.
Therefore it's inflated illegal value cannot be 'the reason it's illegal'-rather, it's a product of it's illegal status.
It's illogical to suggest that ease of home cultivation is the reason it's illegal- however logic would perhaps suggest that the same ease of cultivation would prevent it from being first on any list of possible drugs for legalization. Something harder to produce would be more easily taxed.
Therefore it's inflated illegal value cannot be 'the reason it's illegal'-rather, it's a product of it's illegal status.
It's illogical to suggest that ease of home cultivation is the reason it's illegal- however logic would perhaps suggest that the same ease of cultivation would prevent it from being first on any list of possible drugs for legalization. Something harder to produce would be more easily taxed.
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety- Benjamin Franklin, as if you didn't know...