There is a way to successfully grow cheaply, you just need to have a lot of knowledge and be extremely resourceful. But you’ll still be likely to be growing on a very small scale.
When talking about a $200 budget you could easily eat this up buying pots, soil, and seeds to run a few plants outdoors. You’ll still need some soil ammendments or nutrients, pesticides, some tools, etc to get these plants to harvest. For indoor grow you’ll need all of this stuff plus to build a grow space. Building a space is usually something that you get out whatever you put in. You’re simply not going to grow a pound of weed with an $80 light from amazon or ebay. So the question then becomes if you’re cool with spending a few hundred bucks on stuff thatvis basically consumable and will need to replaced every grow or two just to end up with an ounce or two worth of fluffy buds and shake.