Well it could be supplied by the little guy. I know with distilling you have to get your liquor taxed (you pay the taxes) before you can sell your hard spirits to the liquor stores. Could do the same with mj and the states will have a true tax stamp, not a hidden bust card.
Unfortunately you can't just make liquor, pay a tax,
and sell or consume it. For all practical purposes it's
illegal to distill your own liquor. If you want to make
your own liquor (legally
) you need DEEP pockets.
From:
http://www.ttb.gov/faqs/genalcohol.shtml
Spirits
You cannot produce spirits for beverage purposes without paying taxes and without prior approval of paperwork to operate a distilled spirits plant. [See 26 U.S.C.
5601 &
5602 for some of the criminal penalties.] There are numerous requirements that must be met that make it impractical to produce spirits for personal or beverage use. Some of these requirements are paying excise tax, filing an extensive
application, filing a
bond, providing adequate
equipment to measure spirits, providing suitable
tanks and
pipelines, providing a
separate building (other than a dwelling) and maintaining detailed
records, and filing
reports. All of these requirements are listed in
27 CFR Part 19.
Spirits may be produced for non-beverage purposes for fuel use only without payment of tax, but you also must file an
application, receive TTB's
approval, and follow requirements, such as
construction,
use, records and
reports.
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If there was an AFFORDABLE tax stamp of some sort
that growers could get that would give them 100%
legal protection and allow them to supply the market
I'd be all for it. Unfortunately with all the money involved
the little guy would be cut out from supplying the market
(legally) and quality will be sub-par.
Here is an article that illustrates what we might expect if marijuana
gets reclassified:
http://www.freep.com/article/20120422/NEWS15/204220533/Company-wants-grow-quality-medical-marijuana-old-mine
Here are a few paragraphs from the article:
Zettl said a court ruling forced the Canadian government to rush medical cannabis onto the market sooner than it wanted. The company's product had a THC content of about 14%, but the government ordered it to dilute it with leaf material to bring the THC content down to what the Canadian government believed was the norm for street marijuana: 10%.
It was that required blending, which has since been relaxed so that PPS can provide marijuana with 12.5% THC content, combined with the fact that the Canadian government would allow the company to supply only one variety of cannabis, despite a wide range of needs, that led to complaints, Zettl said.
Ted Smith, founder of the Cannabis Buyers' Club of Canada in Victoria, British Columbia, said quality concerns persist: "It doesn't smell very good; it doesn't look very good."
If our neighbors to the north are being that
restrictive with the strains (only fucking ONE!),
and potency (diluted with leaf to not go over
12.5% THC, fuckin nice), just imagine how our
overbearing Uncle Sam will treat it.
treetopmmmp
I assume it's for liquor but hearing numbers 
