Hello everyone, my receding hairline has made me realize I need to follow my dreams. So it's time for me to head out to a recreational state and take a crack at growing some trees.
I'm looking for the state/county that won't look twice at me if they find me with 10 lbs and a reasonable plant count. Or at least the most likely places where that will be the functional reality. It seems to be relatively easy to get a medical card in most of these states but it will take time and I'm not sure that I would want to sign up for anything anyway.
I would much prefer to try to make my living with lower penalties than jumping through hoops that ups the already high capital requirement to get in. I'm not skilled enough to justify this as it is, adding to my capital and time investment isn't going to help.
I'll give my impressions of the places that seem like the best or why I wouldn't want to go to others.
Alaska - Conflicting laws but not living north of Canada, it's cold enough in Illinois.
Colorado - Seems alright for now, but a major right wing/evangelical wild card base that could do anything. Has smell as part of the law, worst part about it IMO. So petty
Cali - Huge variance by county, more people, better product more rippers. Seems very in flux, hard to figure out what the actual legal limits to medical cannabis cultivation are in cali relative to other states. Seemingly very lax criminal penalties for illegal grow, very appealing
Oregon - Probably my second favorite so far, not great recreational rules but it seems like a place where as long as I don't bother my neighbors they aren't going to bother me. Relatively liberal state, penalties max out at 5 as as opposed to 60 years in Illinois
Washington - no home grows if i understand correctly for recreational, really limits a lot. No bueno
Nevada - Seems to have pretty good laws, but going to have to go pretty rural to ensure a dispensary doesn't open up within 25 miles of you. Draconian laws on driving with blood that will test positive at any level. Life sentences are the upper limit of the cannabis laws
Mass - Another state where the recreational rules are 6/12 plants with two adults. I like the newer states because it's easy to blend in, no one knows what a grow looks like yet.
Maine - Probably has the best laws for recreational home growers of them all. Unlimited seedlings (in veg, 24" height 18" width max), 12 immature plants (in veg, >24 height or >18 width), and 6 in flower
Really maine would have already won if it wasn't both too far north and probably very difficult to network in such a rural area. And nothing to send home unless I grow it myself.
So what do you guys think? What state is best and why? Did I totally slander your state with my little blurb? Let me know. Or just let me know where you think is the best to move and grow herb in the country and why. We all look for different things in a home and have different needs. And while some places may look great today the prospects for home growing may not be so great tomorrow.
Sorry for the long post
TLDR; tell me the place I should go if I want to just grow trees on my property and never have to tell the state. Where am I least likely to get a sentence that hurts. Now or in the future
It seems like Cali is that place. But the cost of living is holding me back. So convince me otherwise
I'm looking for the state/county that won't look twice at me if they find me with 10 lbs and a reasonable plant count. Or at least the most likely places where that will be the functional reality. It seems to be relatively easy to get a medical card in most of these states but it will take time and I'm not sure that I would want to sign up for anything anyway.
I would much prefer to try to make my living with lower penalties than jumping through hoops that ups the already high capital requirement to get in. I'm not skilled enough to justify this as it is, adding to my capital and time investment isn't going to help.
I'll give my impressions of the places that seem like the best or why I wouldn't want to go to others.
Alaska - Conflicting laws but not living north of Canada, it's cold enough in Illinois.
Colorado - Seems alright for now, but a major right wing/evangelical wild card base that could do anything. Has smell as part of the law, worst part about it IMO. So petty
Cali - Huge variance by county, more people, better product more rippers. Seems very in flux, hard to figure out what the actual legal limits to medical cannabis cultivation are in cali relative to other states. Seemingly very lax criminal penalties for illegal grow, very appealing
Oregon - Probably my second favorite so far, not great recreational rules but it seems like a place where as long as I don't bother my neighbors they aren't going to bother me. Relatively liberal state, penalties max out at 5 as as opposed to 60 years in Illinois
Washington - no home grows if i understand correctly for recreational, really limits a lot. No bueno
Nevada - Seems to have pretty good laws, but going to have to go pretty rural to ensure a dispensary doesn't open up within 25 miles of you. Draconian laws on driving with blood that will test positive at any level. Life sentences are the upper limit of the cannabis laws
Mass - Another state where the recreational rules are 6/12 plants with two adults. I like the newer states because it's easy to blend in, no one knows what a grow looks like yet.
Maine - Probably has the best laws for recreational home growers of them all. Unlimited seedlings (in veg, 24" height 18" width max), 12 immature plants (in veg, >24 height or >18 width), and 6 in flower
Really maine would have already won if it wasn't both too far north and probably very difficult to network in such a rural area. And nothing to send home unless I grow it myself.
So what do you guys think? What state is best and why? Did I totally slander your state with my little blurb? Let me know. Or just let me know where you think is the best to move and grow herb in the country and why. We all look for different things in a home and have different needs. And while some places may look great today the prospects for home growing may not be so great tomorrow.
Sorry for the long post
TLDR; tell me the place I should go if I want to just grow trees on my property and never have to tell the state. Where am I least likely to get a sentence that hurts. Now or in the future
It seems like Cali is that place. But the cost of living is holding me back. So convince me otherwise