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johnhinkleyjr
dont get me wrong i think its a good thing.for the most part. yes, the market for growers is getting hijacked. consolidation of wealth for rich people through a free market by means of an expanding marijuana market replacing the same thing by means of an expanding prison population built on archaic drug laws. a lot of people will have to find work but a lot more people will stop having their lives upheaved by getting run through the court system for smoking herb. its a welcome trade off but the age of 6 figure entry level work for risk taking green thumbed people on the west coast is over. it is now being handed to people with enough money to have access to the right hands to shake just like every other lucrative industry. hopefully they start pulling folks out of prison. there needs to be a federal job training program for middle age growers whose only skills are completely obsolete at this point. its going to happen a lot faster than folks think. its going to also be an end to diesel generator spills in salmon breeding habitat and lungs full of avid smoke. the people who know how to mix botanicare and wire lights are not going to be employed in this new field.horticulture grads will get middle income wages to lead low paying workers in ag work. the people who make money will be business people with access to licensing and contracts, skilled in running a business by means of consulting and navigating agriculture based industry. southern humboldt is going to be super surreal. a wild ghost town of loosly dispersed abandoned mansions on land whose only resource was remoteness and mild climate for a mountainous region. as it becomes financially unfeesable to truck potting soil an hour and a half up unmaintained logging roads to infertile rocky clay hillsides people will be forced to move and find work in other areas in other fields. knowing how to mix boutique overpriced pre-made fertilizer products discretely is just not a skill that is transferrable to any other industry. it wont be matter of seeing how many hundreds of dollars you can make per square meter it will be per hectacre just like any agricultural crop. the money will be made by comparably the few business people skilled in managing the farm to distribution to wholesale markets that will get rich. people will get rich of the work off manipulating the commodities of hundreds of farms that manage thousands of farm workers. no one skilled in planting growing and harvesting tobacco is rich. there wont be thousands of small indoor farmers sustaining middle class incomes providing herb that would have to priced similarly to dom perignon. nope most people drink modestly priced cheap to mid range beers and microbrews pr 10-20 dollar a bottle wines. they dont drink 10 year old barley wines or 150 bottles of wine. not even on fancy occasions nor will people pay 20 times as much for organic indoor ghost train when really great quality og hybrids and productive indicas are being produced in massive climate controlled greenhouses and open california wine country. eventually people will pay high dollar for imported cheaply produced sativas from central america like people love a fancy $30 tequilla from mexico. indoor wont be micro brew vs budweiser, it will be massive greenhouse weed vs sacramento valley tractor farmed grade. get ready to go to community college and learning how to type and manage a household budget.maybe salmon numbers will be up in the mattole again soon. thats more exciting to me than how cool it will be to buy disposable bho pens at the corner store. real talk