Back when I was your age...

[joeking]

Sup Ic magers, I've been away for a bit, but I'm on my way home and have been asking myself and those close to me a few questions.
It seems that with more states becoming medical friendly, the canna-biz has started to attract a wider range of folks. Now maybe some of you fine folks in the original states have been through this, but what I am trying to under, or overstand for my rasta brethren, is where is the love?
Lets just say that I know some people that have recently decided to undertake growing cannabis as a side job. Investing in all the latest and greatest high tech hydroponic gear, got caregiver liscense and some "patients" and are off and running. Now, I have always grown mostly personal, maybe a little more and it has taken me many gardens to get what I feel is close to dialed in to an acceptable level of high quality mj. But these folks all it seems to take is some start up capitol and some clones, and they are supplying a local dispensary with meds...Now I haven't personally sampled any of the goods, but I am a little conflicted as to how I feel about those that grow soley for profit. I started growing because I was a pothead, and I loved herb....turns out one can make a little scratch at it as well...or maybe it's because I never got rich doing it, and here are these youngsters doing it and stacking chips and it annoys me. Yeah, I'm getting grumpy in my age. This pondry comes to me as I deliberate the "agenda" of the weed that myself, or those close to me grow. After all, we are all made of atoms and particles and energy, so I have to ask, if a grower grows weed strictly for profit, with no regard to taste, quality, or medicinal value, yet is supplying medical dispencaries...who or what is there to protect the interest of the patients? maybe I'm old fashioned in my belief that cannabis is a gift meant to heal, and bring humans closer together, and not continue to seperate us by class and socio economic status....please feel free to weigh in here. As weed becomes more and more legal it also becomes more and more like the bell peppers and corn we buy at the market...no REAL quality control...as long as it doesn't have strictnine or arsonic sprinkled on it...sell that shit. I'm just saying, are we really screwing ourselves here by taking the black outta the market? I guess it's one of those things that were damned if we do, and damned if we don't. All the best
jk

 

[HighDesertJoe]

The New MJ Biz is starting to seem just like Big Agribusiness at the supermarkets.

Sure it might look good weigh OK but the attention to the details aren't what they should be.

There goes the quality, just so they can bring it to market 2-3 weeks earlier.

Who suffers but the Medical Patients who are in real need of Good Medicine's

Some of the new Pot farmers don't really care, they ought to be ashamed of them self's.

 

[gingerale]

It's OK. It's a natural and temporary thing to happen as the market becomes more and more open. I bet when Prohibition I ended and alcohol became legal, there were probably a million brewers and moonshiners hawking their questionable wares...but over time the scrubs washed out, good brewers prospered, OK ones either hung in there and found a niche or gave up, and eventually everything sorted itself out. It will be the same with MJ. In the mean time, how can it hurt to have more volume and selection? It doesn't hurt me, as a smoker, and doesn't hurt me as a grower since I strive to produce a quality product. In fact it helps me because I like being the guy who produces good shit in a sea of mediocrity.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

People don't drink Budweiser because it's good.

It's what "beer" is to many consumers.

Homebrewers put much better offerings on the table than the few companies that brew almost all of the beer in the US.

Microbreweries get a very small fraction of beer sales.