I'm THE biggest jong when it comes to growing, I'm afraid I'd just fuck it up. I could get some lights pretty easily but I literally wouldn't know what to do after germination.
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I'm THE biggest jong when it comes to growing, I'm afraid I'd just fuck it up. I could get some lights pretty easily but I literally wouldn't know what to do after germination.
I can get you growing 2-3 ounce plants right out the box.
I have a cheap, easy feeding method. You will be posting pics like mine in literally 4-5 weeks. It's 10% method 90% genetics anyhow, and I am good friends with a up and coming seed company in CO. These guys put me to shame, in EVERY way.
Get at me over at IC, and ill get you all the info and pics you need.
That goes for anyone here.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php...ictureid=51525
17 hour session yesterday. Two thirds done. God Damn!
I may just take you up on that, B.
Not a problem. See what you can get as far a lights, and we'll go from there.
A pic of my bud's 100% CO compliant op. Cops have a live feed right to it. Best security you can get.
This is one room. They have 4 like this. For real breeders.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php...ctureid=897128
Like I said. They put me to shame. However, I just grow for me. They are up there with the best.
I was in town for two days and they gave me three quarters and an eighth of hash to smoke.... I had to throw away a gram of hash and about 5 grams of sick ass nibblage right before my flight out.
This is why the California model will never work. Non-profit... What a fucking joke. When a plant sells for 10-12k a pound retail, there has to be profit.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...ack=lanowpicks
By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times
June 17, 2012
In the first raid, Orange County sheriff's detectives hit a Dana Point marijuana storefront, the San Clemente home of its director and a "stash house" he allegedly maintained nearby.
In the two homes, they found cash stuffed everywhere: in buckets in the garage and attic, in an Igloo cooler in a bedroom, under a mattress, on an ironing board, in a dresser. According to a search warrant affidavit filed in November, they recovered more than $700,000.
At the shop, investigators found spreadsheets showing sales over 10 months totaled $3.17 million, according to the affidavit, with $2.47 million "cash on hand." Paperwork indicated that a silent partner, a convicted drug dealer named John M. Walker, controlled the shop and six others in Orange and Los Angeles counties.
A subsequent raid of one of Walker's properties recovered a Beretta handgun, a shotgun, a Chinese AK-47 with a bayonet and grocery bags filled with four dozen rubber-banded bundles of cash; one of the bags contained a note with calculations totaling $99,324.
The discoveries and many others like them across California are starkly at odds with the image presented by medical marijuana providers, who label themselves as "compassionate caregivers" and say they work on slim margins, give away cannabis to the poor and comply with the law.
Many medical marijuana dispensaries have been making huge sums of money even as they claim to be nonprofit, according to court and law enforcement records, industry insiders, police and federal agents. The Times found a cash-infused retail world unlike the one pitched to voters who passed the Compassionate Use Act for "seriously ill Californians" in 1996.
Few would suggest that everyone in the industry is making huge profits; many dispensaries do struggle to stay afloat. Nor do the court cases capture the relief truly ill patients ascribe to high-quality marijuana they might have difficulty getting if these shops did not exist.
One reason for the vast disparities within the medical marijuana trade is that the regulations governing it are hazy. The 1996 initiative and a law the state Legislature approved in 2003 never made clear how patients were supposed to get marijuana, much less whether sales were legal. Attorney general guidelines issued in 2008 allow only for fees "that are reasonably calculated to cover overhead costs and operating expenses." Dispensaries decide to abide by that or not.
Records from a Granada Hills dispensary showed sales revenue topping $10,000 on many days.
Spreadsheets from a Long Beach operation indicated the owners bought $247,040 worth of marijuana and sold it in the next five months for $776,589. A state Board of Equalization investigator testified that the pair sold a total of $1,672,206 that year and reported only $206,980 to the tax agency.
A Venice-area dispensary's bookkeeping revealed it did about $5.1 million in sales in just over a year. One month's total was $468,331 — with $154,493 in "total profit." Another's profit was $116,625, after a $25,382 payment to the owner.
In North Hollywood, the two partners behind NoHo Caregivers emailed encrypted messages estimating they would each make $194,000 a month in profit, according to a federal indictment.
The state Board of Equalization gives a very rough estimate that it collects up to $105 million a year in sales tax from stores that are doing up to $1.3 billion a year in sales.
There is no way to know what the average dispensary earns because they are unregulated, aside from those in a few cities, including Oakland, Berkeley and West Hollywood. That void has allowed operators to sell huge amounts of pot at giant mark-ups, seeding public mistrust of the industry and giving law enforcement ample incentive to crack down.
"Some people are abusing the system and raking in profits," said Don Duncan, operator of a West Hollywood dispensary and director of the California chapter of Americans for Safe Access. "That draws the credibility of the field of medical cannabis into doubt."
He and fellow leaders of the movement are pushing for a bill to better regulate the business. But the legal challenges to growers and dispensaries are mounting.
The federal government, which considers all marijuana use illegal and has signaled it will target any commercial operations, has launched a multi-pronged campaign to put this all back in the bottle. And local authorities throughout California, led by the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, are going after them too, based on the notion that nothing in the medical marijuana law permits sales or profits.
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On July 31, 2008, the DEA and Culver City police raided a dispensary called Organica, on the border of Venice and Culver City. After seizing about half a million dollars' worth of weed and $16,379 in cash, the agents expected the shop to stay closed.
I bet next you're going to tell me that dude didn't win the lottery and there will be no Free Maggot Heliskiing operation. Dude, sometimes you just got to believe. Rather believe in weed than magic money.Quote:
Originally Posted by MotherFucker
PW7 presents the cycle of life in the CA sun. Disclaimer: I am no Bobby Stainless.
Seedlings...
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2 weeks...
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2 weeks...
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3 weeks...
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This is my Alpha - I call her bitch
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What does your stash look like?
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BOBBY FOR PREZ!
Those are coming right along PW7. Nothing like free light.
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Originally Posted by PowerWhore7
I love Deep Congo...
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php...ctureid=220878
My stash is in various places, but this is what my desk looks like in my garage.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php...ictureid=71771
I need some organization.
The two most used pieces I have.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php...ctureid=613027
My Old Jerome Baker. The only one of 5 or so that made it. Had a mother ship at one point. (not one of the newer ones, pre-2000).
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php...ictureid=49843
Big pancake of hash under some sift
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php...ictureid=49802
Loaded with Bubba Kush.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php...ictureid=49863
If I was small enough... bro... I bet I could ski this shit....
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php...ctureid=231656
That sounds awesome - glad your crew had a blast @ A.S.S. - be out in like 6 wks....Quote:
Originally Posted by flowing alpy
Getting desperate so here goes... The family and I are driving from Revelstoke to Newport Oregon via Mt St Helen's. Looking for a refill after crossing the border. Anyone got ideas? If you come shredding in Revelstoke the favor can easily be returned with the 1670 Organic.
Along similar lines, are there any mags in the Portland, OR area who might be willing to help me out at some point today? Out here for a job interview that I had this morning, thinking that a little greenery would enhance the rest of my day.
I was out at the disc golf course today and found a really nice bubbler on a bench. There were no people around so I picked it up. As I continued playing and still not seeing anyone I was wondering how it had come to end up there.
The round was almost over and I passed a guy that I see on the course alot. He asked me if I happened to find a bubbler, and I returned it to him.
I was really hung over and not in the mood to smoke, but he insisted that I take something for returning the piece. He proceeds to give me about an 1/8 of various types of pot.
1. Blue cheese. (never heard of it, but he clames it is the best of the lot)
2. Royal kush. (looks really purdy and is one of my fav)
3. Bubba kush. (strong marijuana)
It was a good day at the course.
Wow just made some z-bho. Good way to use up the ear buds.
Two small Auto Ak47 growing inna di garden. At 69* North. Midnight sun!
Wife has some nice plants growing in the yard, but it looks like there are little white flies on them that soapy water won't get rid of. Suggestions?
Hello I just moved to broadway and Evans in Denver. There is a absolute fuckton of dispensaries. I am actually overwhelmed. Which ones are worth my time? Pink house?
http://www.montereylawngarden.com/products/insects/Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
Monterey Garden insect spray.
OMRI certified. No reason to ever use anything other than this.
That goes for everyone.
Spinosad is what you want (the active ingredient in Monterey Garden Spray), and can be found in a number of different sprays, such as Green Light & MGS.Quote:
Originally Posted by doughboyshredder
It is considered a "natural" pesticide, but a lot of hardcore organic types won't use it. I pre-treat all my plants in veg, and then retreat with Azamax. I never have pest issues. Preventative treatments are the key.
Chances are those white flies are thrips.
WTF: Try Natural Remedies in LoDo.
http://lodosdispensary.com/
Yeah, spinosad is the active ingredient. IME monterey was the best. Not to say others won't work, but you can get monterey at home depot, which is a plus. Keeping a clean garden is the most important aspect of pest prevention. IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless
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Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless
The only reason a plant has ever sold for that much is because of it's illegality. The fact that "providers" sell it legally for the same price as on the black market is the joke. There is no reason it needs to cost that much if it is being grown legally, but providers are acting like racketeers, or like the pharmaceutical industry, which is about the same thing.
While I'm glad that people who actually need it have some limited access (limited largely by the avarice of providers), I am disgusted with the gold digger attitude that I've seen from providers, with the dishonesty of many of those who apply for, and are prescribed green cards, and have come to understand why some are so adamantly opposed to legalization for medical use.
I am only interested in full legalization, the medicinal use only farce is doing more damage that it's worth.
hopefully they won't legalize ganja, it's more important that 6 year olds can have Oxycontins...
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/07...ntin-kids-1-4/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobile..._front_top_art
hows the bud in uruguay?
best way to make butter from vapo scraps?
is this a good use of said scraps?
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Originally Posted by buttahflake
I might do it wrong, but I wait to fill two 18 ounce tupperwares with spent then put all of the spent with eight sticks of butter in my Crock on low for 8-10 hours. After it's done I take cheese cloth and drain the butter into a bowl, squeezing the fuck out of it to get all the last butter I can.
I give it to a friend who says it does the trick because my wife refuses to cook with it now that we're trying to bring a little MotherFucker along. Before then, I'd just use it for baked goods. It was fairly strong on CBD and didn't cause a change in taste of whatever I used it for.
I actually really enjoyed the flavor as a tobacco chew substitute. Pack a dip of vaporizer leftovers. Chew it up occasionally, pack it back in. NICE.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttahflake
never was much for a dip, dbs. thanks anyway.
i want easy vapo, buttah. thanks MF.
anyone else?
^ Vape jong Q, aren't the "scraps" from a vaporizer "vaped" and therefore void of THC?
Question: A regular argument I hear in the legalization debate is "... just make it legal and tax the hell out of it and the guberment makes a shit ton of money."
Personally, I think NO. Why should the government that wasted a metric shit ton of money fighting weed growers and users suddenly get a massive wind-fall? No. They shouldn't tax it any more or less than they tax milk, corn or coca-cola.
I get that it's a way to "sell" the idea of legalization to money hungry states - but I think it's a silly place to start.
Perhaps I'm wrong or I'm missing something a bit more nuanced to this argument.
There's still a good deal of THC and other cannabinoids left, depending on how hot you set your vape. A good friend of mine always quoted 25% of the active compounds being left in the bud, and given that he's an old hippie living in the mountains I always deferred to him for info. I believe the leftovers are higher in CBD, could be wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by Huck_Schmuck
One reason for the higher taxes argument is to fund drug education and rehab programs. Our goal should be to reduce use by children and abuse by all people. Tax revenue from legalization should be used for this purpose. IMO, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poop~Ghost
I'm not sure that argument holds much water with me. If it was for weed rehab - which I am not sure there's a big line of weed addicts lined up for rehab - that's one thing. But lumping weed in with meth, booze or crack in terms of saying "Because weed's related to those hard drugs, we're going to tax it higher and support rehabs with those taxes".Quote:
Originally Posted by doughboyshredder
Interesting topic though.
Basically, the argument is that the "war on drugs" works mostly by pushing up the price and thus reducing consumption. So you just set the tax such that the price remains 400 an ounce or whatever the national average is now. The quantity consumed remains unchanged. The difference is that Uncle Sam pockets 300+ an ounce in tax revenue. You can make this argument to someone who hates the demon weed without even having to convince them that weed is fine or that their concerns are overblown. If they want to make weed absurdly expensive in order to reduce consumption, we can do this in a way that has positive consequences (pay down the federal deficit, send every American income taxpayer a tax refund, build hospitals and schools, fund NIH research into cloning Jerry so that the Dead can tour again, whatever) rather than negative consequences (enriching Mexican drug cartels and encouraging street crime).Quote:
Originally Posted by Poop~Ghost
The tax-and-regulate model is also the proven approach that we use with tobacco and alcohol, so we know that it is effective and easy to implement.
Launch BoxQuote:
Originally Posted by flowing alpy
3...2...1
Liftoff?
anyone running a Pax yet?
thought's?
look's dope:fmicon:
i think i'm gonna get one this week.
https://www.vaporstore.com/images/pa...izer-specs.png
http://www.ploom.com/wp-content/uplo.../pax-hero1.png
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAJKwGpw8o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1-eRlvBvyM
edit: my crock pot, vapo duff buttah, came out $$$.
so easy and wicked effective.
made cookies with a stick of 10g duff buttah.
two delicious cookies and i was high for 6hrs!
make swamp water/tinctiure, duff, 3oz, quart everclear, soak 8-10 hours, strain, reduce/evaporate in a crockpot water bath down to 2oz liquid. search green dragon,fuck combustion.