Posted on 12/01/2020 6:46:08 PM PST by Mariner
Home cultivation has emerged as a clear sticking point in cannabis reform across many states.
While it faces pushback, including from several cannabis brands, home grow is making incremental progress in medical and adult use markets, and ushering in a variety of parameters to meet state needs.
The issue has made more progress than other key advocate issues, such as social equity. Yet, industry professionals say more could be done to improve access and curb industry greed.
Those supporting home grow believe that it is a way to provide affordable cannabis to low income individuals, as well as to those customers who live in legal states, but have little access to products.
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but if the state is going to legalize it, then private individuals should be able to grow their own dang stuff....
state wants to pick everybody's pocket for everything....
“Figured it would screw the cartels, the commercial dealers and the tax man - all a good thing.”
Again, I’m astounded there is a commercial market at all. And I can’t imagine why the cartels would have ANY interest in weed.
It’s free.
At Texas Tech University in the late 70’s, there was the Gordon Hall Growers Association.
As with any drug it has side effects and dangers. You should do your research and consult you doctor.
The marijuana on the market today is extremely more potent than the stuff that circulated in my youth. There is the possibility of overdose today.
I think it may be a benefit to grow your own today. I doubt that your home grown would be as potent.
Not hard at all.
Any one can make wine or ale with some yeast, sugar and either fruit or grain. Making something tasty that will give you a buzz is pretty simple and there are hundreds of places you can find that will give you step by step instructions.
Invest in some basic cheap equipment and you can make stuff that is a step above what you can pick up at your local gas station.
And while you need a license to make distilled alcohol or sell it to the public you can make beer, wine, hard cider and mead perfectly legally in your own house.
Being in the industry now.... Not a user of it but I will attest to the excellent use as a medical treatment for inflammation, and epilepsy (CBD) neurological disorders, neuropathy, and nerve pain (THC). What the growers can do that the home grown can’t really do is develop strains. I deal with some strains that are nearly 15% CBD and under 2 or 3% THC. If you are a recreational user it might be worth it to grow your own but it is kind of a pain. If you have a legit medical need then professionally grown and processed is the way to go. I was never a pot head or cared much for it. But I got in the industry manufacturing processing equipment. Having worked with labs, doctors, and patients there are very exciting uses for cannabis and hemp for very debilitating medical conditions.
Oh yeah. And people still like getting high. So there’s that too.
Why were the cops there at all?
A plant in the window wouldn’t catch my attention normally either.
But I generally have little interest in plants anyhow. I would be more interested in the stereo.
I have little interest in people breaking victimless criminal laws. A potted plant in the window would in my mind have little chance of being a criminal act.
But on the other hand, it is their job to notice such things. As and aside most of the guys that I went to school with that went on to be cops would likely have pot growing in their house.
Traded growing tips and swapped seeds I suppose.
Do you home grow every pea, bean and kernel of corn you consume?
How about raising all of the beef, pork and chicken you eat?
*Hint, there were Cold War tunnels running under the campus.
I grow a lot of it. I am very aware of where the meat comes from.
That said, I am a sucker for a crappy Costco chocolate cake.
Plus, you don’t put all that other stuff in your lungs.
“The marijuana on the market today is extremely more potent than the stuff that circulated in my youth. There is the possibility of overdose today.”
What would a marijuana “overdose” look like?
The Cold War was in full chill then.
Civil Defense bunkers from the 50s?
“If not for the hunger for more tax dollars cannabis would still be illegal.”
And criminals would still have their lucrative monopoly.
I don’t think there was ever a monopoly, I recall the competition was fierce and on occasion deadly.
Of course, the illegal market is still quite lively. Due to the government price controls.
And strictly speaking it is still illegal (Federally).
Fine, criminals would still have their lucrative oligopoly.
”a marijuana overdose won’t likely be fatal. [...] marijuana overdose is unlikely with smoking or vaping. You are a lot more likely to overdose on weed edibles because it’s difficult to determine the exact dosing.”
Got it, thanks.
Nice word. I had to look it up.
Thanks
That doesn’t happen very often.
I am not sure that it actually applies. There are large local growers (illegal) in every state.
But it is true that the South American cartels are the big kids on the block.
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