Selective breeding, travel to foreign lands for genetics, horticultural excellence, hybridization etc. Not to mention distribution, often at great personal cost.
Sleeping outside from late August through mid-October, no matter the weather.
And they're supposed to give it all away after 50 years of building it.
So Ocassional Cortex is a hater? Im so surprised.
You must live down the street from me. 40 years ago a employee asked me if I wanted to smell MJ to stick my head in a old Jeep station wagon. My wife is now using a cream derived from the buds for joint pain and I was taken back those 40 years when I smelled it...