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Originally Posted by 724Skinsfan
You're right in one sense but you're also forgetting about brand recognition. If Philip Morris starts package and distribute marijuana and spends its resources on advertising then people will generally tend to buy their product over the unknown dude with the cheap packaging and inferior looking product image. You can use tv's, shoes, over-the-conter drugs and just about any other product as an example. In the end Big Business wins out just about everytime. If the little guy is showing impressive sales success with a superior product then Big Business simply "makes him an offer he can't refuse" and buys the product. A good example of that would be Cisco Systems.
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I think you're giving Beem WAAAY too much credit. He's making no sense.
People will seek out the cheapest and easiest route to getting their products. That will be buying a pack of joints over the counter made by Phillip Morris for five bucks a pack. Sure, you could grow your own. You could buy the seeds, shine lights on them, water them when needed, harvest the buds, dry them out, roll them up, and smoke them. Or you can run out to 7-11 and buy a pack for $5.
It's just like brewing beer. You could run out to the store to buy a keg of Miller Lite for $60-70, or you could buy the ingredients for $50, invest in brewing equipment, and put in the two months time it takes to brew up a keg of beer.
There are a few people in this world who brew their own beer because they think it's fun (me included). But I definitely DON'T do it because it's cheaper or easier. When I want a case of beer on the cheap and easy, I head to the effing beer distributer. Their costs of production are much lower than mine, that's why it costs just as much (if not less) and takes way less time to just go out and buy a case of Sam Adams than it does to brew one up. It makes no ****ing sense and I'm actually feeling angry and disappointed in the intelligence level of the person I'm debating with.