CANNABIS cultivation was so much better than now when it was illegal. Newsom has destroyed it all, while the Black Market thrives. I remember speaking to Denis Peron at his (5) story dispensary on Market St., and he predicted that legalization would destroy everything that he worked so hard to achieve, and it most definitely has.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this topic? I should like to hear them …
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Obvious once legalization happened profiteers bought politicians to protect investment. No surprise as many industries fall in line…booze, cheese, tobacco etc. This was pre current government look before 215 how the tentacles began to move. Just be glad you aint looking at 10y charge for a joint.
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Exactly.
Ya the legal market is fucked. It sucks but it is what it is for now, who saw that coming 
Just stoked I can grow my own safely.
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Its not " really legal". It is just heavily regulated. The government and their cronies are trying to set up a system where it is legal to get high but only with their pot. Then they will decide who, when and where you can get high. Its all about farming people to harvest more money. I say we ignore legalization and live the same way we always have. Like a secret brotherhood of COOL people. Do what you want but don’t tell anyone.
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Don’t tell anyone?!?! People on this site wave around a lot of crazy (and beautiful) photos.
Har har.
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You are correct. However, it is difficult to prove that a picture of a plant is your handiwork.
I knew a fellow that grew a 20 foot plant in the early 1970s. He was very proud of it so he took a Polaroid picture of it. 30 years later the cops searched his house looking for pot as they suspected him of being a dealer. They did not find any weed but they did find that photo. He was prosecuted for cultivation and sent to prison for a plant that had been gone for decades.
Sadly, he might have gotten away with it if he had not been in the picture standing right next to it and grinning like an idiot.
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I grew up buying herb from SF mission organic where we could wear gloves and feel the buds, smell them out the jars, much variety, bagseeds to be found, out of stuff we chose by the real bud. I was 15 when I started going there. Now it’s prepackaged half a year old hoopla
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I think that the insane rate of new US growers each year is talking loud about maybe not only the CA field, but on an overall mood after the 2008-2025 legalized rush ^^
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CA is an example of what is inevitable when there is only a limited number of licenses issued. The Little Guy gets shut out because they don’t 7 digit money. The licenses will always end up in the hands of corporates. A handful of CA companies were grandfathered in, like Jungle Boys, but most got shut out of the market they created.
New Mexico did open licensing, which is the only way to do it that makes sense at all. However the winds are blowing the other direction in Santa Fe now, and it looks very likely that licensing will become limited or even shut down completely for a ‘2 year pause’. Even with open licensing the corpos still have that money, and it ends up in legislators pockets. They desperately want a monopoly, to shut out the independents. More to come in January. Sure as shit hope we can get our license by then.
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Meanwhile many here in CA continue with our 6 plant limit often on a continous basis. I don’t buy from any dispo nor would I ever want to buy from a dispo. Simply inferior product that is overpriced.
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6 plants limit is fine with me.
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I do fine with six , just have to pick the right strains that yield well.
Did you ever smoke that red dot or green dot? Sheeeeesh:fire:
Honestly I am my own worst critic on my homegrown, and mine nor the current dispensary weed even with its array of flavors and colors, will ever meet the OOMPH of mid-90s Cali chronic
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CA homegrower reporting in. No, it’s definitely better now after legalization. Ya prices have come down on wholesale but nobody is getting felonies just because they got popped with a dozen plants. I know folks who have been busted with over 100 plants with dozens of lbs of product. Pled to misdemeanor. Get caught selling like a lb or two? Easy piezy. Plead and get expunged after 2yr
I’m an engineer by trade, MJ is my hobby. CA definitely has room to improve, especially on its packaging requirements but our homegrow laws are fair and even if you break em as long as you’re not doing it egregiously you’ll be fine. I know sooooo many folks that work in industry, everybody gets busted eventually. When you do you’ll want a legal framework that doesn’t mash your nuts in a vice
It’s nice to be able to be in an open market. I can buy good quality bud at the dispensary or grow it myself (dispensary is prob cheaper)
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