Making weed legal will kill us farmers...

[mr.notsogreenthumb]

I'm a small time farmer who is more interested in experimenting, cross breading for new strains, and smoking than actually making money off it. In a good month I can produce anywhere between 8oz to a pound and yes it usually gets sold.

Now I'm having this problem with the whole concept of legalization, because if it does happen weed will start selling for the price of weed (don't pardon the pun). Suddenly that $150 that you are currently making from an ounce will drop to about $10. Even though I am not selling tons a month it will still be a sad day when all my hard work becomes nothing more than a worldwide pastime for every dickhead with a shovel. Look I would love to not have to hide all my equipment every time a family member comes for a visit or try to act normal while walking past a cop in town just because I smoked a joint or have a quad in my pocket, but is legalizing it truly the option?

What do you guys think? (especially the guys farming larger amounts?)

 

[Cheese2011]

here in the uk if the legalised weed we would still make money from it ,

 

[Serapis]

So let me get this straight..... You are asking us if we should support the status quo so some of you can continue to make money off of it? I guess if you are the mob, yes, prohibition works....

Try looking outside of your warped box, and see the potential for a lot of new customers encouraged by recent legalization.... Not everyone can grow, nor does everyone want to. Budwesier is still in business, yet anyone can legally brew beer..... Figure it out....

 

[mr.notsogreenthumb]

here in the uk if the legalised weed we would still make money from it ,

I lived in the UK for a year and at the prices it is selling over there the guys who are currently growing should already be set for life. Of course you guys don't have the best growing conditions over there either so I can see how prices could stay high. But in the rest of the world where growing can be done outdoors I think it will be a whole different story...

 

[mr.notsogreenthumb]

So let me get this straight..... You are asking us if we should support the status quo so some of you can continue to make money off of it? I guess if you are the mob, yes, prohibition works....

Try looking outside of your warped box, and see the potential for a lot of new customers encouraged by recent legalization.... Not everyone can grow, nor does everyone want to. Budwesier is still in business, yet anyone can legally brew beer..... Figure it out....

Dude you might be right, I don't know. this is an open discussion so just speak your mind.

 

[LightningMcGreen]

I think the question really boils down to whats more important; making your side money and risk getting busted, or everyone being able to smoke and grow where and when they please.

Although the price may drop some, it's not going to go down THAT much...even commercial, big business farmers wouldn't make money that way ($10/oz). Take cigarettes for example; people have the option to grow their own tobacco, or even buy pouches of it and roll their own cigarettes, but most still opt to pay the rediculous price of $6 (or more) per pack of cigs. Beers the same way, people have the option to brew their own but again, most just opt to buy it from a store or buy whats at the bar.

I think it's kind of greedy and rediculous that some people don't want it legalized because thats the ONLY way they make money. And im not talking about MMJ states/growers, I'm talking about the punk thats do damn stupid or lazy to get an actual job to pay the bills, trying to make easy, quick bucks. Why should I have to suffer gettin busted for growin for personal use only just because that guy (or group) doesn't want to learn another skill or trade?

And even though your client base would also drop significantly, since you're into cross breeding and trying new strains, I'm sure you could come up with a nice strain that a couple close friends or neighbors would buy off of you for a few dollars less than what they can get in the store, because just like cigarettes and food, anything the govt puts their hands in, they taint it with chems and everything else.

 

[TaoWolf]

I think this sums up my feelings about people who value profit more than anything else. You'd just better hope that wanting to keep it illegal doesn't end up biting you in the ass:

God money's not looking for the cure.
God money's not concerned with the sick among the pure.
God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
God money's not one to choose.

Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.

 

[guy incognito]

I'm a small time farmer who is more interested in experimenting, cross breading for new strains, and smoking than actually making money off it. In a good month I can produce anywhere between 8oz to a pound and yes it usually gets sold.

Now I'm having this problem with the whole concept of legalization, because if it does happen weed will start selling for the price of weed (don't pardon the pun). Suddenly that $150 that you are currently making from an ounce will drop to about $10. Even though I am not selling tons a month it will still be a sad day when all my hard work becomes nothing more than a worldwide pastime for every dickhead with a shovel. Look I would love to not have to hide all my equipment every time a family member comes for a visit or try to act normal while walking past a cop in town just because I smoked a joint or have a quad in my pocket, but is legalizing it truly the option?

What do you guys think? (especially the guys farming larger amounts?)

Does not compute. This guy must have bred some incredible strains. The Frankenstein.

 

[1gamma45]

I'm a small time farmer who is more interested in experimenting, cross breading for new strains, and smoking than actually making money off it. In a good month I can produce anywhere between 8oz to a pound and yes it usually gets sold.

Now I'm having this problem with the whole concept of legalization, because if it does happen weed will start selling for the price of weed (don't pardon the pun). Suddenly that $150 that you are currently making from an ounce will drop to about $10. Even though I am not selling tons a month it will still be a sad day when all my hard work becomes nothing more than a worldwide pastime for every dickhead with a shovel. Look I would love to not have to hide all my equipment every time a family member comes for a visit or try to act normal while walking past a cop in town just because I smoked a joint or have a quad in my pocket, but is legalizing it truly the option?

What do you guys think? (especially the guys farming larger amounts?)

The problem to sound like you grow shit weed. People need to stop looking at weed as weed. You need to look at it like wine. Yes Boons wine is shit and you you make little off it. But there wines out there selling for hundereds and thousands of dollars. Why cause its the best as far as wine goes. So you wana make money off weed start growing better weed or have a selection dont just grow the same stuff over and over unless your the only one that grows it and then in that case you corner the market and can charge whatever.

Example. In my area atm it all Kush this kush that. Sells for about 20 bucks a gram. I grew some White Widow and cause I was the only game in 100 miles that had White Widow I was making 50 bucks a gram. So no it shouldnt hurt farms if anything it will help you cause all the weed grown outside the us and smuggled in will have no market therefor they will buy from US farms.

 

[Serapis]

$50 a gram? And you sleep at night?

 

[mr.notsogreenthumb]

In all honesty I am not against legalizing it, I'm also not one of those people standing on the corner next to seven eleven with a clipboard and a loud speaker trying to convince the world that legalization is the alpha and omega, I just sit on the side. I get that it would solve allot of my and your problems but it seems sad that after so many years of discreet smoking, buying and, growing that it will suddenly be available to anyone anywhere at any time.
And of course there will be some high end Walmart type firm that will start mass production, selling NL for $10 an ounce and it won't even be worth growing your own anymore cause buying the finished product will be so much cheaper. And so it willbecome just another consumable on the shelf in the supermarket.

I think that in the end I am for legalization, its just that little piece of me that feels that the bud will become nothing more than another form of Twinkies. Its as if it will lose that specialness. Shops will be selling it like cigarets. We will all be left to sit around telling the new smokers our stories of the good old days...it makes me sad.

Sorry for my sappiness but I have gone though so much shit for this plant that the thought of everyone trying to grow their own (I know that everyone won't grow or be able to grow but they will sure as hell try.), makes me sick. Just imagining all the plants in every garden, filled with seeds, dying from over watering and wrong nutes, its like a horror movie playing through your mind.
To me weed is about more than just a few bucks and a high, its a way of life...

P.S I have come up with at least 2 kick ass strains.

 

[Illumination]

I think this sums up my feelings about people who value profit more than anything else. You'd just better hope that wanting to keep it illegal doesn't end up biting you in the ass:

God money's not looking for the cure.
God money's not concerned with the sick among the pure.
God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
God money's not one to choose.

Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.

Awesome song +rep

 

[Illumination]

P.S I have come up with at least 2 kick ass strains.

Awesome!! Seeds?

Namaste'

 

[mr.notsogreenthumb]

The problem to sound like you grow shit weed. People need to stop looking at weed as weed. You need to look at it like wine.

Example. In my area atm it all Kush this kush that. Sells for about 20 bucks a gram. I grew some White Widow and cause I was the only game in 100 miles that had White Widow I was making 50 bucks a gram. So no it shouldnt hurt farms if anything it will help you cause all the weed grown outside the us and smuggled in will have no market therefor they will buy from US farms.

Dude I see weed as fine wine and that is the problem, my mind is telling me that some big ass company will start making good shit and selling it for peanuts.

By the way I sell one of my strains for $40 (I'm not a greedy man, lol) sadly I can't stay ahead, my next three grows from this strain is already sold out and due to space I cant do more than three plants at a time (excluding the mother). So my dope can't be that crap... It tastes kind of like a fruit salad. mhmmmm...

 

[mr.notsogreenthumb]

Awesome!! Seeds?

Namaste'

Both are mixes of either four or five other plants but it is my private 'collection' and I have so far refused to let even a single other person receive a seed. And I clone all my grows so no seeds escaping from these sexy mamas to the outside world.

 

[golddog]

But I won't.

I have a small collective, which consists of old guys with medical problems.

You know, hip replacement, knee replacements, polio, you get the picture?

They need very strong Indica for pain. TopShelf at most clubs.

Weed is so easy to grow, everyone should grow the dank but some can't.

I give away. It cost me way less than $500 a pound to grow.

The nice thing about it being legal, is that I can grow the best weed, without any hassles.

 

[mr.notsogreenthumb]

But I won't.

I have a small collective, which consists of old guys with medical problems.

You know, hip replacement, knee replacements, polio, you get the picture?

They need very strong Indica for pain. TopShelf at most clubs.

Weed is so easy to grow, everyone should grow the dank but some can't.

I give away. It cost me way less than $500 a pound to grow.

The nice thing about it being legal, is that I can grow the best weed, without any hassles.

Showoff. (lol, just kidding)

 

[newatit2010]

The only thing about if the government sees money in it legal they will it take over

 

[don2009]

I think the question really boils down to whats more important; making your side money and risk getting busted, or everyone being able to smoke and grow where and when they please.

Although the price may drop some, it's not going to go down THAT much...even commercial, big business farmers wouldn't make money that way ($10/oz). Take cigarettes for example; people have the option to grow their own tobacco, or even buy pouches of it and roll their own cigarettes, but most still opt to pay the rediculous price of $6 (or more) per pack of cigs. Beers the same way, people have the option to brew their own but again, most just opt to buy it from a store or buy whats at the bar.

I think it's kind of greedy and rediculous that some people don't want it legalized because thats the ONLY way they make money. And im not talking about MMJ states/growers, I'm talking about the punk thats do damn stupid or lazy to get an actual job to pay the bills, trying to make easy, quick bucks. Why should I have to suffer gettin busted for growin for personal use only just because that guy (or group) doesn't want to learn another skill or trade?

And even though your client base would also drop significantly, since you're into cross breeding and trying new strains, I'm sure you could come up with a nice strain that a couple close friends or neighbors would buy off of you for a few dollars less than what they can get in the store, because just like cigarettes and food, anything the govt puts their hands in, they taint it with chems and everything else.

Fuck that and all your moral bullshit I want$$$$$$$$ I want my family set 2 gen. Im from the underworld jack if my sells slow down im robbing the growers PERIOD.

 

[guy incognito]

Fuck that and all your moral bullshit I want$$$$$$$$ I want my family set 2 gen. Im from the underworld jack if my sells slow down im robbing the growers PERIOD.

Peace!

I found the mentality of your post and signature to be rather ironic.