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When its legalized, what will you do?
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slappyjack
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I'm trying to buy a large greenhouse NOW in preparation for the inevitable. It's quite possible to do so in a MMJ state.
My dream is to provide everything from seeds, to clones, to vegged plants, to flowered plants, to cured product all under the same roof. One stop shopping for all your cannabis needs.
My dream is to provide everything from seeds, to clones, to vegged plants, to flowered plants, to cured product all under the same roof. One stop shopping for all your cannabis needs.
That makes two of us. However I highly doubt it will happen simply because of the lumber industry and the fact that the government controls it. Hemp could easily replace wood in almost all its purposes but "they" wont let it happen unless "they" control the industry.
OVERGROW the mother f@cking world
SoCaliSmoker
Member
Couldn't have said it better.
Although many will be in "tears" from joy, others will be crying about what the commercialization of marijuana from big businesses will do to them now. If you thought $50 an eighth was making money, try $8 an eighth now and see how great it is. Great for the consumer, not the grower.
A lot of people that made BIG money (the growers who hide their millions in the dirt) those guys will be fine. But for the guy who is making 36K - 60K a year off growing, maybe even to feed his family in todays rough economic depression, that guy has no other alternative now. You will be able to pick up weed at Walgreens and competition will be too much.
It is a great thing on the outside (and I'm all for it, HELL, most of us here are) but not everyone will enjoy it. In my personal opinion, because of the reasons stated above, I would like to have regulations in every state that are mandated, but still keep it out of the hands of BIG GOVERNMENT. Let us control it, just don't criminalize us for it like they have been for years. Show some compassion!
Agreed, if it is legalized, it will be heavily regulated (if for sale) and quality controls MUST come into play. I don't think it will be cheap or easy, and with a host of regulations to abide by our costs for production will increase heavily.
I figured out that with labor, power, clones, nutes etc, my cost is around $600 a pound to produce. I'm sure Phillip Morris could get that down to $20 a pound or so, and they'd sell herb for $10 an ounce and still make a killing.
Boutique weed will still exist, but will you still get $200-400 an ounce for it? Not a chance.
I figured out that with labor, power, clones, nutes etc, my cost is around $600 a pound to produce. I'm sure Phillip Morris could get that down to $20 a pound or so, and they'd sell herb for $10 an ounce and still make a killing.
Boutique weed will still exist, but will you still get $200-400 an ounce for it? Not a chance.
HASH GORDON
Member
Not changing my M.O. for anyone or anything. I act like it's already legal! 
yeah personally i think decriminilization is the best bet. keep things how they are. but then once every state has decriminalized, then im sure there will a push for complete legalization. Complete legalization i think would be a pretty bad thing for the small people who currently profit off of their MJ. It would be good for the large companies, as many of you have stated, and it would be good for the consumer. It's such a wishy washy situation.
boroboro
Member
Thanks, Backcountry. Insightful as usual. Will it be seeds, though, or clones? Legal clones through the mail might be an interesting activity in this hypothetical future...
Good question Lil' Wayne.
First thing I would do when MJ was legalized is get a bunch of weed and a bunch of girls together and have an orgy. If I can't make that happen then I'll get a bunch of weed together and watch a porn of an orgy. We all know where it goes from there.
After that is all cleaned up, I would buy land out in the country and build warehouse like structures with concrete foundations, but probably built out of SIP's (Styrofoam Insulated Panels). They are cheap and easy to put up and have a R22 insulation factor I believe. Then run large strict clean environment sealed CO2 with lots of A/C grows. Maybe outdoor too, but since I've had cancer, I only the most medicinal cannabis I can get. I guess that would be my niche market.
I want to use some of the profit from all this to raise awareness about an issue. I don't want to start a pissing match about healthcare in this thread, but I do want to bring up the fact that bone marrow transplants cost about $500,000 to get. Most insurance companies pay for the transplant. Great right? No. You have to do a donor search to find a match for the transplant which can cost $20,000. Insurance companies don't pay for that. That's how they get out of paying for the transplant. Lots of people who need the transplant now and need the donor search done now are left to die. There are avenues to get that donor search money, but a lot of times it's too late.
I was lucky we had the money and I want to, one day, start a foundation or charity or something to help the most unfortunate and youngest of those people. It's a pretty fucked up situation. If you are able, you should try to get in touch with the National Marrow Donor Program. All they do is swab your cheek and one day you might be able to save someones life. It's not painful to be a donor. Just a lil' plug there.
I'm not trying to sound all noble. I do this to make my medicine now, but also because there is going to be a lot of money in it. This is going to be a massive new industry IMO.
First thing I would do when MJ was legalized is get a bunch of weed and a bunch of girls together and have an orgy. If I can't make that happen then I'll get a bunch of weed together and watch a porn of an orgy. We all know where it goes from there.
After that is all cleaned up, I would buy land out in the country and build warehouse like structures with concrete foundations, but probably built out of SIP's (Styrofoam Insulated Panels). They are cheap and easy to put up and have a R22 insulation factor I believe. Then run large strict clean environment sealed CO2 with lots of A/C grows. Maybe outdoor too, but since I've had cancer, I only the most medicinal cannabis I can get. I guess that would be my niche market.
I want to use some of the profit from all this to raise awareness about an issue. I don't want to start a pissing match about healthcare in this thread, but I do want to bring up the fact that bone marrow transplants cost about $500,000 to get. Most insurance companies pay for the transplant. Great right? No. You have to do a donor search to find a match for the transplant which can cost $20,000. Insurance companies don't pay for that. That's how they get out of paying for the transplant. Lots of people who need the transplant now and need the donor search done now are left to die. There are avenues to get that donor search money, but a lot of times it's too late.
I was lucky we had the money and I want to, one day, start a foundation or charity or something to help the most unfortunate and youngest of those people. It's a pretty fucked up situation. If you are able, you should try to get in touch with the National Marrow Donor Program. All they do is swab your cheek and one day you might be able to save someones life. It's not painful to be a donor. Just a lil' plug there.
I'm not trying to sound all noble. I do this to make my medicine now, but also because there is going to be a lot of money in it. This is going to be a massive new industry IMO.
If it is legalized you better have your agribusiness hat on and be thinking small time production on the scale similar to wine makers now. A lot of little people will be eventually be swept away, but how long do you reckon it will take all that to stabilize? I have no idea really. I hope it's slow.
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inthelight
SoCaliSmoker
Member
Something can not be "basically" legal. "Basically" unfortunately doesn't hold up in the court of law. You can't be "kind of" pregnant. You either have a baby in you, or you dont right?
Well in the case of legalization and BIG GOVERNMENT, they will simply turn fields (thousands and thousands of acres) into mass producing marijuana farms and cultivate it themselves for profit. 1 acre is larger than a warehouse with 99 plants. Imagine thousands of acres. It puts the little guy out.
When we grow for personal use, we risk criminal punishment and investment on our end. If there was no punishment and unlimited funding by the government, then YES, weed will be $20 an ounce. Just how it is.......
(and I live in Cali too brotha' - hence my screen name)
I think there will be a market for HQ indoor, which is more costly to produce. If I was going to pull a number out of my ass. $50/oz of Medicine grade indoor. As long as they are charging a $35/oz tax we will never see $20/oz market price. I know it will be cheaper. By how much is hard to say.
wherever I would be, I would roll one, light it, and pass it to the left
I just want to have lots of weed. 
