My guess is it will be on par with making moonshine.
Helicopters, Airplanes and entire departments that come alive for 'shine season.

Unless of course you are properly licensed, regulated and have that tax stamp.

Ya don't hear about wine/beer busts from home brewers/vinters/etc. because the folks makin beer and wine in their basements aren't turning around and selling it to keep from working a real job like many pot growers across the land are doing. In the end, 99.9% are doing it because they love wine or beer.

As will happen with weed (someday), once it is widely/freely available in stores and >everyone< can grow it in their homes and give it away to friends w/o criminal charges, there will be about as much demand for weed as their is in your neighbor's gallon of wine or case of beer. (when was the last time you bought homemade beer from someone on your street/in yer neighborhood??? yup...gonna be the same thing >eventually<.)

should be fun between now and then though.... :rolleyes:

Oh but they are turning around and selling it, and not only are they working, they made it their job, along with creating jobs for thousands of people in the process. The following is A list of the pioneers of basement brewing and guess who has had the last laugh. Top on the list is Sam Adams (Boston)... I was drinking Micro Brews at 17 and have had many on this list. They absolutely crush Budweiser, Coors, Miller, No comparison... Like trying to compare Bulk outdoor herb (no insult intended) with the Finest Top Shelf Indoor Dank in my opinion...

Rank Brewing Company City State
1 Boston Beer Co. Boston MA
2 Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Chico CA
3 New Belgium Brewing Co. Fort Collins CO
4 The Gambrinus Co. San Antonio TX
5 Deschutes Brewery Bend OR
6 Lagunitas Brewing Co. Petaluma CA
7 Bell's Brewery, Inc. Galesburg MI
8 Matt Brewing Co. Utica NY
9 Harpoon Brewery Boston MA
10 Stone Brewing Co. Escondido CA
11 Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn NY
12 Boulevard Brewing Co. Kansas City MO
13 Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Milton DE
14 Abita Brewing Co. Abita Springs LA
15 Shipyard Brewing Co. Portland ME
16 Alaskan Brewing Co. Juneau AK
17 New Glarus Brewing Co. New Glarus WI
18 Long Trail Brewing Co. Bridgewater Corners VT
19 Great Lakes Brewing Co. Cleveland OH
20 Firestone Walker Brewing Co. Paso Robles CA
21 Anchor Brewing Co. San Francisco CA
22 Rogue Ales Newport OR
23 Summit Brewing Co. St. Paul MN
t. 24 Full Sail Brewing Co. Hood River OR
t. 24 SweetWater Brewing Co. Atlanta GA
26 Victory Brewing Co. Downingtown PA
27 Oskar Blues Brewery Longmont CO
28 Cold Spring Brewing Co./
Third Street Brewhouse Cold Spring MN
29 Flying Dog Brewery Frederick MD
30 Founders Brewing Co. Grand Rapids MI
31 Ninkasi Brewing Co. Eugene OR
32 CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries, Inc. Chattanooga & Louisville TN/CO
33 Odell Brewing Co. Fort Collins CO
34 Bear Republic Brewing Co. Cloverdale CA
35 Stevens Point Brewery Stevens Point WI
36 Blue Point Brewing Co. Patchogue NY
37 Southern Tier Brewing Co. Lakewood NY
38 Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe Eureka CA
39 Karl Strauss Brewing Co. San Diego CA
40 BJ's Chicago Pizza & Brewery, Inc. Huntington Beach CA
41 Breckenridge Brewery Denver CO
42 North Coast Brewing Co. Fort Bragg CA
43 Left Hand Brewing Co. Longmont CO
44 St. Louis Brewery, Inc./
Schlafly Beers St. Louis MO
45 Saint Arnold Brewing Co. Houston TX
46 Ballast Point Brewing Co. San Diego CA
47 Big Sky Brewing Co. Missoula MT
48 Allagash Brewing Co. Portland ME
49 Uinta Brewing Co. Salt Lake City UT
50 Tröegs Brewing Co. Hershey PA

The 1980s marked the decade of the microbrewing pioneers. In a time when industry experts flat out refused to recognize their existence as anything serious, the pioneering companies emerged with their passion and a vision, serving their local communities a taste of full flavored beer and old world European traditions; all with what was to become a uniquely American character. Through extraordinarily difficult market conditions, the microbreweries and brewpubs of the 1980s struggled to establish the foundation for what was to become the proliferation of craft beer in America.

The number of craft brewers has gone from 8 in 1980 to 537 in 1994 to over 1600 in 2010. Craft brewers operate in 344 congressional districts and the majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a brewery. Truly craft brewers and craft beer drinkers are participants in a revolution. There has never been a better time or place to drink beer than in the US right now.

^ TOUGH BIZ.

Yep, But it can be done. I Knew A guy that started one in Temecula Ca. (Wine Country) in the basement (Literally) at his family's vineyard called "Blind Pig" All over the place locally in Temecula and still going strong... It's Every where now, I think the name of the brewery changed but He still makes the Blind Pig, Top Notch all the way...

Nor saying it can't be done...especially if the regs to play are the same as beer and wine....but so far we aren't seeing that be the case across the board here in CO. We have quite a few microbreweries here locally. We also have few dispensaries here locally. The difference is that you cannot ban the operation of microbreweries here, nor do the microbreweries existence here hinge on a special election/election question...while the dispensaries and all other cannabis-related business here are subject to bans and far more restrictions and are/have been the subject of elections here in recent years.

Gonna be very interesting to see where it all goes....if it goes at all.

Los Angeles voters opted to cap the city's medical marijuana dispensaries at 135 locations after voting overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition D.

As the debate over the future of Los Angeles' medical marijuana dispensaries rages on, a new study has found there are far fewer pot shops in LA than previously estimated by the city.
The UCLA study comes after the City Council approved a hotly debated ban on dispensaries, saying they had grown out of control. The ban has prompted advocates to sue and gather signatures to ask voters to overturn that measure.
The research, announced by UCLA this week, found 472 medical marijuana dispensaries operating in Los Angeles. The number is less than half of the amount of businesses that were sent notifications of the city's pot-shop ban last month.
Researchers went to 875 addresses compiled from a variety of city sources, and found more than 40 percent of the locations were not operating as dispensaries. Some had been shut down; others had never opened, the study said.

I guess 135 shops is better than none... Tax rate is currently @ 6%... Tighter regulations and fees coming in the future???

May 13, 2013
Weekly Wrapup: 100s of California Dispensaries to Close?

On Monday, the state’s Supreme Court weighed in on a closely watched case, ruling that cities and towns can ban marijuana dispensaries.
The decision upholds the roughly 200 bans in place across the state and will pave the way for more cities to outlaw dispensaires. Several towns that had instituted bans but were not enforcing them pending the Supreme Court decision responded immediately, sending out letters telling dispensaries to close down. Other towns indicated that they will move forward in implementing bans. As a result, hundreds of dispensaries could close across the state.