Sheeit, ill take that as a compliment. BUT no, while i am a supporter of Todd, and have been following his activism and story since i first saw a story about him in high times in junior high/high school , im not. I’m just a dude from Ohio that’s been obsessed with growing weed since 4th grade (stole My first high times from the corner lottery stand My mother used to gamble at after school)
My Dad was my custodial parent, One day in 4th grade he rented Cheech and Chong Nice dreams and we watched it. I laughed My ass off when Chong blew up the neighbors car after lighting a joint while soaked in gas.
That movie also got me terribly curious about what that scientist was growing under the tarped swimming pool.
The following Monday my mother had after school visitation, typical wed go to This place called “ok’s news stand” which had s magazine rack full of raunchy ass porn mag’s, and magazines. While the owner Angelo would traded food stamps for lottery tickets, i used to grab the most absurdly graphic porn mag and go run up to mom and pop it open like a flasher in a trench coat.
While this Monday was different, as this day i see Beavis and Butthead on a magazine, i start looking thru it, and holy shit, Also The plants from the movie Cheech and chong ,the whole magazine was about those plants!
I stuffed it inside the center of game pro magazine, (mom bought me a video game mag weekly as i was a mortal Kombat nut i took that high times with me to school every Day hidden in side the peeled off cover of game pro. (Taped the cover on it, which was the start of something special, as i cherished my video game mags; EGM, Game pro, EGM II, etc. for me to deface one by ripping it’s cover off was a big deal. And signified the tangent that changed my life, likely for the worst at the Time, but ultimately for the better as time went on
So i carried this high times around, it was The April 1994 high times (still have it, as a sourced a lot of used high time’s on eBay s few years ago) i carried it and looked through it a million times. When the next One came out, I tricked mom again into buying it.
So i eventually start actually reading it, and everything seems so interesting and that was that i needed to smoked those cigarettes. Well it took from 4th grade all The Way to 7th grade until i actually was first exposed to using marijuana.
My Buddy spent thr night, we snooped through my dad’s shit, found a bag of seeded weed and ez wider 1.5s. we took a small amount and attempted to roll a joint that ended up causing us to lose most of the weed. We eventually stole a cigarette and emptied it mixed the weed in and tried to repack it
We didn’t get high, but we got caught because it smelled of weed in our room.
Anyway, we got not in trouble, but lectured about snooping and the whole 9 yards (thought i was gonna get my ass tanned)
Well the summer of 7th grade is when these Puerto Rican kid’s moved in 3 houses down. After becoming friends with them, one day their older brother smoked a blunt with us, i got soo fuckin high i was hearing the lost boys theme in the woods and literally damn near visual hallucinations. Definitely audible distortions.
That was it, within a few months, everything was about getting a dime bag. I used every excuse imaginable, class fees for science lab, i ruined my text book and it cost 35$ to replace or i was getting suspended, took Sega games to video game trader, weed was all that mattered. Still a monthly high times reader, and natural by 8th 9th grade, i started planting seeds outside and my impatient ill informed ass thought that the third node in seedling’s was a little tiny bud, that we could harvest the plants microwave it and get high.
We planted prob 100 plant’s in the woods behind the high school, we took them all down, but left 2 as we forgot about them. We took our bag of cannabis micro greens straight to the microwave. Lol
One day my Puerto Rican buddy’s brother Eric, got us high again, the spot was always the woods behind The highschool. While we are there, he sees the plants we forgot, they’re about 2 months old now, tall, scraggy being in almost straight clay soil. Eric gets excited and digs it up
It dies eventually.
BUT now i really start paying attention to The cultivation articles in high times. As Eric knew a good bit and told us about male and female plants.
I basically studies cultivation fron thr age of 10 year’s old. Well i eventually graduated to being a party kid, blunts, alcohol, pills, etc from 9th grade on. One of my good friends dad was a big time coke dealer, and his son, my friend, used to answer The phone for him when his Dad was getting drunk at the local dive bar. Being this kids friend opened up alot of access to various drug’s at a rather early age (10th grade staring at 13 solid ounces of coke hidden in a armoire, trying to untie these special knots his dad used to do to pinch them to trade for weed) . Eventually this lifestyle at This early age led to harder drugs. LSD, x, coke, hydrocodone, oxycodone, Valium, Klonopin, etc.
When i was 18 i was an addict of morphine sulfate (MS Contin 200 PF’s) when i was 19 i couldn’t take it anymore, the lady we got our morphine pills from eventually died, I turned to my Dad for help as my habit would be too expensive now that the lady died.
Anyway, when i was on methadone, i needed something to occupy my nervous energy to keep my mind off of slipping up, i built my first grow cab from a 2x2x7 foot armoire. It had 2 drawers on bottom, a door above with a shelf inside on top the last 10 inches.
I stuck 8 porcelain lightbulb bases in it, 2 on each side, 23 watt cfl’s ,a 4"computer fan up top for exhaust, passive intake holes on bottom.
Lined the uppermost drawer with pond liner, cut 6 holes out on the top part over the drawer to hold 1 gallon pots.used a passive wick system i saw in the ed Rosenthal grow book. Vermiculite and perlite. couldn’t get a damn thing to survive past a few weeks. Tap water here is fucked. Eventually found a grow shop and bought a 175w metal halide and a small reflector. I flush mounted IT in The top shelf. Started using bottled water and was sold a Hanna PhEP ph meter. Things finally started growing. Unfortunately, this was heavy sativa bag seed, and quickly outgrew the space. BUT i was on My way to growing. Ordered some beans from Ontario’s Best . Got “XXX-420”, “Black Domina” & “H-plant”. All Ontario’s Best “house brand”. Finally got a set of plants to harvest and actually smoke. Then i ended up building a exact copy of a super closet mother ship grow cab from a storage cabinet from office max. Used a 250 digital ballast, pro mix, etch. Then I realized i had to have 2 gardens, 1 for moms, One for Bud. So i built My closet in room with a 600hps in a cool tube. 6" vortex sending cool tube heat into attic, pulling from hole in floor to basement. Installed a 4" eco plus inline for room exhaust.
After 2 year’s of success in the closet, my girlfriend has gotten a settlement from a car accident she was in when young.
Me and my friend i met through buying weed from the dude who worked at the grow shop bought a house on the east side of Youngstown Ohio for the cost of delinquent back taxes. For $4700, we got a 4 bedroom ex crack house . We did what needed done to it, got it looking somewhat respectable and lived in, took 2 bedroom and stuck 5 1k lumatek and CAP digital ballasts in each with hydrofarm Daystar AC hoods. Other room got sunlight supply super sun 2 ac hoods.
We fixed the 2.5 ton central air conditioner (dads is an HVAC Guy and electrician, he charged up the units, put a New cap in i think, etc). We closed off all duct except what fed the 3 rooms, 3rd room was a 3k mh and t5 veg mom clone area. Had green air products cdmc6 co2 sequencer, big 12 inch elicent and fan tech fans for exhaust (we spared no expense, we had 20 grand to Play with from my girls settlement 
) we ordered some seed From Holland. Sensi seeds Afghani 1, super skunk, Sensi Skunk, paradise seeds Wappa, Sensi Star, and Dutch passion oasis. Got totally clean in 2003 as well, off the methadone. No drinking, nothing but weed and cigs.
Ran this from 2003 to 2014/15. In 2008, my buddy helping me out just decided it was time to go get a trade and he went to trade school and Just abandoned me. Lol so it was just me and the misses running this thing. In 2014 her junky sisters caught wind, tried blackmailing me, told them to fuck off. Never thought that the threat they made would be carried out.
Well it did, i was busted in 2015 going to The house to do some gardening work , i pulled in and like a flip of a switch, a half dozen cars pull up, 3 marked 3 unmarked. Would’nt have got nearly as much time as i did if it wasn’t for the damn pistol in the car with me and 3 ounces of bud. got 6 months for the cultivation, 3 years on a gun specification. Which had to be served consecutive to any other time. So did 3.5 year’s on it.
Got out, started a family with a girl i dated in highschool. Started body building, just a gym rat punching a clock raising 2 kids and working.
We got legal home grow last December, so i started growing again.
That’s my life in a nutshell. Not Sure if this was the right place or time to tell the story, but something just came over me, and decided to spill my guts here.
Tldr: im not todd. 