localhero
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cool, see ya at the farmers market i guess. you do know that any sale at all must be licensed by your county right? its not like you can just go to the farmers market and set out a lawn chair. if you end up bein in one of those happy counties, i'll be callin ya neighbor soon. neighbor.
I have been saying this for a while now, but I will repeat it here. You better be the best grower with the best genetics in your area or you are going to be growing for yourself soon. The micro brewery comparison is the best comparison for what has been happening for years now. Firstly there will be a huge market for people that want shitty cheap pot walmart style. Why? Because it is a step up from smoking mex. By the way if you looked at the studies of what is in mex you would never ever think about smoking it. The shit is deadly. You do realize that they have pesticides, and herbicides that we outlawed a billion years ago? They use them very liberally in all stages of plant growth, and then your dumb ass hits it with the heat and vaporizes said poisons into your lungs. Way to go idiots. Besides killing yourself with a tainted product you are also supporting the killing of almost 30,000 people in Mexico, and if you want to buy the cartels "american grown" outdoor then you are supporting the destruction of our national forests. Pat yourself on the back for that one. Secondly everyone is going to have to go back to the way it was in America, and be proud of something that is from America. Unfortunatly that will mean walmart pot, but it is a start. Thirdly even though america has changed to big box stores, and buying the cheapest whatever from whomever there are still communities that do it old school. My community is filled with small businesses. We have maybe 5 businesses that are chain businesses. The rest are locally owned. Now because of the bad economy there are few hotels that are owned by out of staters that got a good deal on a bankruptcy, but not very many. We shut out outside business. We would not let walmart build here. We shut down a new cell phone tower because it was going to be an eye sore. We will cock block any outsider for just being an outsider. We support our community first. There is a walmart 10 miles away. There are also all of the other big names about 45 minutes away. With that being said people in my community will spend a little extra to support a local instead of letting the money leave the community. When MJ becomes legal you will see my friends at the farmers market with clones, edibles, smokeables you name it. Not very many people will go to walmart to get MJ around here. Really nothing will change much. We have people drive an hour from a college town to get herb from here. We are just known for having good herb. My point is that places like ours will always thrive, and actually we will turn our spot into a tourist herb trap. For the cannaseur of course. So I do understand what this thread is about,but for %99 of people that are growing right now you will be finacially shut out of the game. It is just the truth. Unless you have sat down and come up with a business model for the next 5 to 10 years, and heavily invested then you will be growing for you and your buddies. It comes down to "only the strong will survive". The strong being very rich, or at the top of their game. As said before though when you are at the top of your game usually a big company will come in, and offer you so much money that you can't refuse. They keep your name, and don't say much about the buy, but they implement their way of doing business to "stream line" your production and such. Then 5 or so years later people say "it just isn't like the good old days". I wonder what is different? My friends and I have been planning for this to happen for years now. There ar major opportunities on the horizon just sitting there waiting to be taken. So when most people get shut out of the game they have no one to blame but themselves. I can't wait to go to the farmers market, and see everyone out there with their wares for sale. It won't be much different except everyone will be in one place at one time doing the samething that they have been doing for more than 40 years. I can't fucking wait. The oldtimers will be so god damn happy. We all will be. They never thought they would see the day. Sometimes I didn't either. Just remember that knowledge is power, and the more your read the more power you obtain. The wonderful thing about MJ is that you can go from a few thousand watts grown illegaly in a non MJ state, to 18,000 sq feet being regulated by the state and city in just a couple of years. You just have to be willing to put in the work. One of my very old friends just did this. I am very proud of him. I will just stick it out where I am at though so me and all of the oldtimers can toke at the farmers market.