How much easier can it be than literally growing from a plant?
There's a huge difference between having a plant that is alive and a plant that is producing quality flower of enough quantity to make a difference. There is much better info on the web a simple search will show you compared to me describing to someone that already thinks it's super easy.
Give me an example of a more accessible drug than marijuana.
Edit: Didn't mean to post a one word reply
While it's not classified as a drug, it's definitely addicting. Also, you question is very leading. More accessible? Depends on location. There are plenty of places where meth is much more accessible than anything else including alcohol.
Edit: I forgot to say alcohol for those folks who think of "drugs" primarily as recreational drugs. Not everyone is into getting high. Some people have other interests in "drugs."
I'm starting to realize how true this is. I didn't know my beef jerky has sugar in it until they came out with a sugar free version. I assume that's how they get people to eat otherwise garbage food and eat a lot of it. I bet if they starting taking sugar out of everything the US would get a lot healthier real fast. At least make it more obvious if something has sugar than the 15+ variants on nutrition labels.
That'll never happen, the US government is already bought, sold and paid for.
If you're not a weed snob and just trying to save a few bucks anything that the plant makes will be fine.
You too sound like someone that has never tried growing their own plant. I can tell you from experience, of my "friend", that it takes way more effort. My "friend" is not using lights or anything to trick the plant into doing more like other places do. It's just a green thing with unique leaves in the garden.
Edit: Correction, it's barely 20" tall now.
However, I feel like people in the thread are slightly overstating how hard it is to learn how to grow good weed. I live in a country where smoking and growing weed is illegal.
I know people (yes, more than 1) who grow their own using best practices learned from YouTube (and others). pH, heat, nutrients, CO2, light levels, everything is monitored and tweaked. I've been in grow tents with 2 plants inside and grow houses with >50 (highly, highly illegal).
It's really not THAT hard, especially if you can follow basic protocols (I.E probably most of HN). It's not exactly rocket science! There are (genuinely) illiterate people doing it as we speak.