It's already getting fucked up.
SWIM was in Vegas a while ba...
Wait, it was me. I can say whatever I want on the Internet about it, because it was legal there.
Anyhow, my wife and I went to Vegas and went into one of the cannabis dispensaries (they don't sell "marijuana" or "weed," it's "cannabis").
The focus of the shop -- as others, going by their websites -- was edibles, oils, vapor cartridges, and shatter. Not even good ol' hash like you'd find in Amsterdam back in the day.
Sure, there was flower bud, but it was clear that the new generation is into whatever gets them highest the hardest and fastest. Which is edibles, oils, vapor cartridges, and shatter.
It is obvious why the dispensaries were pushing these products -- they give a quick, heavy high, and they have a higher profit margin. You can more easily manipulate the CBD and THC content with a solution than you can with the plant itself. They are also more easily transported and the high/shelf space ratio is much higher.
Back in the day, my image of future legalization -- probably happening sometime in my 60s, maybe, if I was lucky -- was just straight-up striking marijuana laws from the books and allowing people to grow and smoke for personal use. Let the hippies do their thing, and whatever, man.
But capitalism always gets in the way of good hippie ideas, and the profit motive is king with the wave of legalization. Businesses -- I believe Colorado is only permitting local companies to participate for now -- are always going to find the most cost-effective means of getting their customers hiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhh AF. And the government is going to let them keep doing it so long as they get their taxes. Once the reins are off, and Altria, Reynolds, AB InBev, etc., get their hands in it, it's all over. Kids are going to zoning out on dabs and -- worst of all -- no one is going to know how to roll a joint anymore.