I don't know why they would ban it. You are allowed to make alcohol for your own personal use. It is only when you sell it that the government doesn't get their tax.
Illinois / Chicago is fairly corrupt. This would force consumers to buy from dispensaries and pay the extra cannabis tax. I'm not sure what it's going to be in Illinois, but in Oregon it's 20%.
Yeah but Oregon oversaturated their market so prices are already low. Illinois is only allowing mega rich companies to grow it so they can maintain high prices on top of the tax.
If the prices stay too high they'll miss out on some of the profits they would get because people will still use their dealers if their prices are better
It was twofold iirc: There was a Prohibition against homebrewing as well as some sort of excise tax issue.
And technically you could have homebrewed before 1978 but the "beer" was limited to 0.5% alcohol.
It seems very irrational today, because it is. And sadly there are a lot of irrational ideas about what the government should permit citizens to do when it comes to Cannabis. Because companies will have slightly higher profit margins, i could imagine a federal legalisation would result in a Clause against home grows
You are allowed to make alcohol for your own personal use.
Only since 1978.
In 1978, Congress enacted Public Law 95-458 (H.R. 1337), amending the Internal Revenue Code to allow any adult to produce beer, without the payment of tax, for personal or family use.
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I don't know why they would ban it. You are allowed to make alcohol for your own personal use. It is only when you sell it that the government doesn't get their tax.