Invasion Of The Marijuana Growers

[MAX-24-Dean]

Don't grow pot were DDT was used, you might get you shut down.

Washington shutters pot businesses due to old pesticide

Cannabis regulators have halted operations at several outdoor pot farms and processing facilities on a stretch of former fruit orchards in north-central Washington state

abcnews.go.com

 

[rgr33]

In this area, we had a “secret” pot growing business, that everybody knew about. About half the neighbors were outraged, and half didn’t care much.

also, a 60 acre hemp growth about a mile down the road from the pot facility.

The pot grower failed financialy, turned to cut flowers, the hemp grower apparently didn’t think it was worth the hassle.

Both gone now, probably for financial reasons.

 

[ConawayFarms]

Interesting how many of these grows just come and go, lots of people jump in thinking it’s easy money, but between regulations, local pushback, and actual farming challenges, most can’t make it work long term.

That’s why if someone’s looking into cannabis from the medical side, it makes way more sense to go the legal, clinical route. In the UK, for example, there are specialist clinics set up just for that. Here’s their integro review page if anyone’s curious how it works.

 

[5030]

Just read an article in the local rag talking about the drop in commercial weed prices here in Michigan and how most of the weed retailers won't survive. They got into it thinking they would make a killing but now are getting killed themselves. Once you have a proliferation of wee dealers and they compete against each other causing the price to plummet, they won't all survive and that is playing out here presently.

 

[Dftodd]

Coworker told me about an odd occurance when he used to live down the road from where I live now.

He walked out of his house one morning and noticed 3 deer munching away next to his house.

What was odd was they didn't take off when he exited his home.

This got him wondering, so he approached one of them and got within 5ft of it, and yelled.

The deer ran a few steps and stopped

So he called his buddy who was a game warden to come over thinking they had CWD.

Game warden approached them the same way he did. Going much further and swatting one of them on the butt.

The deer ran about 20ft and stopped. So he shot all three thinking they had CWD.

He hauled them off and had them tested.

He called my coworker a couple days later.

He told my coworker there had to be a large Marijuana grow operation somewhere near him.

The deer tested off the charts for THC The poor things were stoned out of their minds and had the munchies

 

[RjCorazza]

In my jurisdiction homeowners can grow a reasonable number of plants for personal use. It can't be too difficult on a small homeowner scale, as quite a few of my lawn customers have flourishing plants. That's gotta take a bite out of the commercial growers (and the government!).

 

[zzvyb6]

Drone technology to the fescue, mess-cue, and rescue !

 

[tacticalturnip]

There are many commercial grows here in Maine, but they're huge, indoor operations. Only private growers have their plants outdoors, and that's still only a portion.

 

[Dan Hunter]

Elect a better sheriff. A few years back, the Major county sheriff went after every grower with raids to verify absolute accountability of product and money. It's the same thing ATF was doing to gun dealers; any errors and you're done. It's my understanding no one survived. It's like going after Capone on a tax beef; who cares why or how - they're gone.

 

[ericm979]

Interesting how many of these grows just come and go, lots of people jump in thinking it’s easy money, but between regulations, local pushback, and actual farming challenges, most can’t make it work long term.

In Oregon and California when it was legalized a lot of people bought land and started grow operations. I think a lot of them lacked marijuana experience or even farming experience.

With the increase in supply prices dropped. In Oregon avg bud went from $10/g retail in 2019 to $3.50/g in 2024. I see stores advertising $40/oz, which is cheap stuff.

There's been a lot of pieces of property for sale the last few years that had grow operations on them. Usually it's obvious because they don't bother to clean up. Even if they do, which is rare, satellite photos from a year or two back will show it.

That’s why if someone’s looking into cannabis from the medical side, it makes way more sense to go the legal, clinical route. In the UK, for example, there are specialist clinics set up just for that.

Until recently marijuana was schedule 1. If a researcher wanted to test it, they had to buy from the government's official source which is a farm in the south somewhere. It's not representative of what's being sold these days.

I don't think it's particularly dangerous but I would like to see more testing done of the effects on various ailments.