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The text examines how cannabis, a plant that grows naturally, was transformed into a profitable commodity. It highlights the marijuana industry's lobbying efforts to restrict home cultivation in states that legalized the drug, limiting individuals to growing only a few plants. This shift from natural growth to controlled production illustrates the commercialization of a once-common plant.

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Abstract

First it was the plant, cannabis. How could this be made into a saleable profit‐making commodity when it grows in the ground? Witness the marijuana (a chemical from the plant) industry, which lobbied to make sure laws in states that legalized it banned people from growing more than a few plants.