no, growing your own is not harmless, because you can still be utterly fucked by the legal system. In fact cultivation can bring about more repercussions than purchasing on the street, especially when cop math becomes involved. all the negatives you associate with large-scale operations are byproducts of the legality of the substance and in reality have nothing to do with the drug itself a better question is who doesnt profit from the illegality of drugs? cops get paid to enforce laws....they profit from the illegality judges get paid to sit on cases...they profit prisons get paid to house inmates....they profit drug dealers get paid to sell the drugs....they profit, until they are caught, at which time they are fucked the only people who dont profit are the people who foot the bill, and they are too happy go lucky thinking they are being "protected" by all the drug busts in the newspaper to give a shit