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Re:Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected by bane on Saturday February 22, 2014 @05:32PM (#7283925)
> Supply is pretty low because the only companies who have licenses are medical marijuana companies that already had a license, more companies will become licensed soon.

It's also a high risk business. You might invest millions on growing a crop only for the Federal administration to change policies in a few years and come in and blowtorch your crop.

Re:Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected by alexeisadeski3 on Saturday February 22, 2014 @05:59PM (#7284037)
Why would they blowtorch it? Them there wouldn't be any evidence for the Federal indictment.
Re:Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected by bane on Saturday February 22, 2014 @06:18PM (#7284088)
It's what they do with it. Storing hundreds of tons of weed plants isn't necessary if it's well documented.

http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/22/feds-destroy-1-billion-in-...

http://calcoastnews.com/2011/07/feds-raid-sanger-pot-farm-de...

Either way, you won't get it back and your investment is gone.