Haven't touched the stuff for 20+ years. The idiot doing it is Tom Ammiano, a raging old queen, who was the DA in SF and is now in the Assembly. He stopped arresting prostitutes in SF, and the crime went up. Just doing it for the tax $. He talked about the >$1 B it would bring in. That wouldn't stop the illegal growing because it would still be cheaper to get it illegally. There are problems with people taking vacant houses and businesses and jerry-rigging electric to the building. These cause fires. One happened in the nice suburb in the next town over. Recently an Oakland city employee noticed a new electrical hookup to a closed down fortune cookie factory in Oakland. They found hundreds of plants. The city said the hookup could have electrocuted someone walking by on the street (it was from an underground vault). In the hills, the pot growers are growing stuff very near hiking trails. They have armed guards and sometimes booby traps. The cops even got shot at while raiding one patch (they shot the illegal alien dead).
Hey you potheads, we don't need even more problems here.