U.S. cannabis shoppers face a market flush with illegal weed

[Oregon Viking]

It just amazes me, when money is involved, how divisive people can become over a simple plant.

I've grown MJ in every way imaginable. Aeroponics, hydroponics, deep water culture, soil, coco, perlite, ebb and flo...and in the end settled on just growing in good old soil. I don't mean that Miracle Gro garbage they sell, but a decent soil mix with good, organic stuff in it. Although I've been approached with many offers, I have never grown for commercial or black market sale.

I was a site Admin and moderator back in the days of Overgrow.com (and others), and, via the web, have taught thousands of folks how to grow their own.

As a legit medical patient living in Washington state, I am allowed to grow up to 15 plants of my own. For the past 18 months I've been buying from the local retail stores, as growing is a lot of work (if you're going to do it right) and the retail prices are low enough that it makes sense. I can still grow killer bud, but running 2kw of lights 12-24 hrs. a day isn't cheap.

Washington state makes bank off of commercial MJ sales. They get a 25% tax from the grower to the packager, and another 25% when the packager sells to the retailer, plus state sales tax when sold to consumer. I have no idea wtf they're doing with the money.

Prices can run from amazingly cheap to kinda spendy, depending on what you buy.
Right now I can get an ounce (28gr) of Super Silver Haze for $24.50 (nope, that's not a typo). There are several other strains where an OZ is around $50.00, and an eighth of high-end (decent) bud will cost you in the area of $25-$45. The cheap stuff is schwaggy weed..not worth the investment, but there are a number of growers that offer a fairly decent product for the money, and it's sufficient for my needs.

I agree with some of the other posters, in that getting a MMJ card is a bit of a joke. Last one I had was in 2007, and to get one today they want to register you in some state database so they can keep en eye on you. They can bite me...not gonna happen.

This is a bud of a local Blackberry strain I used to grow. First hit of this and your mouth feels as if you ate a spoonful of blackberry jelly. Always thought of it as "dessert bud".

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[Tesorodeoro]

make Anything Illegal & it beomes a Money Maker !
i'm Conviced If they Made Something So Usless As Poison Ivy Illegal to Possess & Grow. there would inmmedialy be a market for it

& the price would rise with The law. if there is a death sentence, it would rise to thousands for one plant, and they would get it

Marijuana is legal here.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

You (and every other human) have every right to be pissed off at those idiots, and IMO I hope they bust them all and stick 'em in prison for decades. Those are cartel grows, and I'm hoping the US military will soon be putting them (cartels) out of business, with extreme prejudice.

Permanently.

Most of those creeks and streams are coming out of ponds and lakes in the higher country, and I know Calif. has a healthy beaver population. If you'd like to avoid a bad case of Giardia, also known as "Beaver Fever", then I'd boil that water before drinking it. JMHO

It’s legal here.
No beaver in the mountains here. Born here and I know which streams are safe. My dad and his family grew up drinking creek water as their only source of water. Never had problems.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Here is a nice organic farm on private property. Only the best quality.

This is a residential subdivision. I’d love to raise some kids there. Just gotta dodge the guy with the AK-47 driving by in the Toyota.

 

[Surf_Pirate]

It just amazes me, when money is involved, how divisive people can become over a simple plant.

I've grown MJ in every way imaginable. Aeroponics, hydroponics, deep water culture, soil, coco, perlite, ebb and flo...and in the end settled on just growing in good old soil. I don't mean that Miracle Gro garbage they sell, but a decent soil mix with good, organic stuff in it. Although I've been approached with many offers, I have never grown for commercial or black market sale.

I was a site Admin and moderator back in the days of Overgrow.com (and others), and, via the web, have taught thousands of folks how to grow their own.

As a legit medical patient living in Washington state, I am allowed to grow up to 15 plants of my own. For the past 18 months I've been buying from the local retail stores, as growing is a lot of work (if you're going to do it right) and the retail prices are low enough that it makes sense. I can still grow killer bud, but running 2kw of lights 12-24 hrs. a day isn't cheap.

Washington state makes bank off of commercial MJ sales. They get a 25% tax from the grower to the packager, and another 25% when the packager sells to the retailer, plus state sales tax when sold to consumer. I have no idea wtf they're doing with the money.

Prices can run from amazingly cheap to kinda spendy, depending on what you buy.
Right now I can get an ounce (28gr) of Super Silver Haze for $24.50 (nope, that's not a typo). There are several other strains where an OZ is around $50.00, and an eighth of high-end (decent) bud will cost you in the area of $25-$45. The cheap stuff is schwaggy weed..not worth the investment, but there are a number of growers that offer a fairly decent product for the money, and it's sufficient for my needs.

I agree with some of the other posters, in that getting a MMJ card is a bit of a joke. Last one I had was in 2007, and to get one today they want to register you in some state database so they can keep en eye on you. They can bite me...not gonna happen.

This is a bud of a local Blackberry strain I used to grow. First hit of this and your mouth feels as if you ate a spoonful of blackberry jelly. Always thought of it as "dessert bud".

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I love Blackberries 🤤

 

[Surf_Pirate]

It's all about the person and what they choose to do. Same applies to those who sit infront of a tv all the time. Same to this who just sit around drinking all evening. So it's not really the cannabis, it's the choices they make to sit and do nothing.

yep I struggle with Lazy! Or one to wait on a check. I see it on every corner of my neighborhood and just don't know how they do it. I mean the cost of living and we don't live in the Hood either. If you feed a cat he will settle in and won't hunt mice then expect YOU to take care of him. If you don't feed him, he will have to catch for himself. He will be more fit and wiser....

 

[pepperj]

100 percent yes not in the work place, and yes it impairs you. I agree and support not driving or anything like that just the same as alcohol. I think we are pretty much on the same page. I just hate the stigmas associated with cannabis being used to bring a negative light to it when I have seen it help so many people. So I'm probably just being too sensitive about it.

I smoked for years when I was under the knife so many times.
My plastic surgeon said I could smoke, but don't drink.
I got drunk about 3 weeks after a surgery.

When he took the cast off he looked at his work. He was delighted with the results, and explained to the staff it worked.
He then looked me in the eyes and said you got drunk once.
I still can feel that today as it was 1977 and he looked at my inner soul, as it sure felt like.
I asked why he said that, and he said your a week behind in healing.
Every time a person gets drunk it sets the healing back a week. He lived 75 miles away, and I got plastered in an apple orchard.
So I went back to just smoking pot while I healed up from there on.

 

[Chilli]

Yep!!

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Too blurry. Closer up. Trichomes and snow balls please! 😁

 

[Oregon Viking]

Too blurry. Closer up. Trichomes and snow balls please! 😁

 

[Chilli]

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Closer...closer...
😁

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[ARC]

Hey Chilli... what is Australia's stance on Cannabis ?
I ask this simply because i know you live in a MAJOR control freak country... no offense.

 

[ARC]

Preach!

Sorry... just had to vent... i have many times before on this subject...
i have always thought how ludicrous and close minded the whole situation has been.
I am really an outsider on it...
I have no vested interest overall....
OTHER than IF i ever want to grow some... for my own use... I could... legally without fear or persecution thereof.
The right to choose how i would deal with pain or any health issues it may help me with... in a safe manner... should be MY choice... MY right.

This should not be a problem FOR ANYONE ELSE.... OR ANY OTHER aspect of MY body I see fit during my life as long as MY CHOICE only effects MY life.

I have been watching throughout my life the over reaching control freaks ruin life after life "in the name greater good" when in fact all i seen is a wake of disruption... pain... suffering... persecution... and on and on with the greed corruption machine churning and flowing on both ends.
All the while the blame of all of it is passed on to the users and used as the justification.

Quite frankly it makes me sick.

Genesis 1:11–29 describes how God created seed-bearing plants and herbs, and intended it for humans.

 

[beepbleep]

So they would dig a large hole in the ground and line it with plastic and dump all these fertilizers and insecticides and nerve agents into the cistern, then run it through all the pipes feeding the plants. After seeing that, I’d never smoke weed unless I knew who grew it personally.

Once it tests positive for nerve agents, the law enforcement backs out and it becomes a hazardous cleanup. Sometimes going through a winter until they get to it.

Nerve agents? Sounds a bit like more reefer madness. hahaha It's a plant. At one time, the most useful on earth until government got involved.

 

[Surf_Pirate]

I smoked for years when I was under the knife so many times.
My plastic surgeon said I could smoke, but don't drink.
I got drunk about 3 weeks after a surgery.

When he took the cast off he looked at his work. He was delighted with the results, and explained to the staff it worked.
He then looked me in the eyes and said you got drunk once.
I still can feel that today as it was 1977 and he looked at my inner soul, as it sure felt like.
I asked why he said that, and he said your a week behind in healing.
Every time a person gets drunk it sets the healing back a week. He lived 75 miles away, and I got plastered in an apple orchard.
So I went back to just smoking pot while I healed up from there on.

 

[Surf_Pirate]

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[Chilli]

Hey Chilli... what is Australia's stance on Cannabis ?
I ask this simply because i know you live in a MAJOR control freak country... no offense.

Hi mate. No offence at all it is a major control freak country! 1 place its legal and can grow for personal and smoke. Guess where?
Canberra where its the home of Australian Politics where most of the politicians live and where Parliament house is 😂
No can't grow here or use or buy. There is medicinal but its price is out of reach for the average person and its mostly cbd crap. My wife tried cbd for her chronic pain but it gave her headaches.
She tried a Grand Master Kush high thc and the pain relief was amazing and lasted for hours. Way better than her opioids which I hate her taking but she has no choice.