I have no oposition to people doing whatever they want but I wouldn't give my kid THC until the following happened: * I could obtain it from a trustworthy s

I have no oposition to people doing whatever they want but I wouldn't give my kid THC until the following happened: * I could obtain it from a trustworthy source * It's studies to understand it's effects on children (medical) * Understand any long-term effects it has on children's memory/behavior (psychological) I don't know if it not being patentable is accurate. You can patent your specificly mutated gene in the plant (like monsanto) to get exclusive rights. The plant is also presumably easy to cultivate as many untrained "farmers" do it. If you gave profesional botanists and farmers a crack at it I'm pretty sure they could come up with large scale and extremely cheap growth plans that are paralleled to the cost of tabaco. Lucky for them pot isn't as regulated as tabaco so they'd make out like kids in a candy store.