WEED, The Official Thread

[Bobby Stainless]

Yeah. It's the same.

[Bobby Stainless]

Jesus.

You won't be able to see anything till you register.

Then go to the "grow diary" section, and you will find my thread. It's a sticky.

[MotherFucker]

But nothing shows up in your actual profile picture gallery?

[Bobby Stainless]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/forumdisplay.php?f=65535

I don't have any pictures in my gallery, they are all in my "album" different location. If I link it, it won't let a non-member access it.

Just join. Lots of good CO dispensary info.

[MotherFucker]

Registered but don't have permission to access for 24 hours. Also, didn't see a "diary" section but did see a "journal" section which I didn't see a sticky from you but who gives a fuck.

I believe you, just weird that nothing comes up on your personal profile. Usually, when you upload a picture to a website, it holds it for you in an album but I know you already know that.

Oh well, I'm over it. Even if you are a massive poser (which I highly doubt), I couldn't give a shit. The pictures you post are bomb and entertaining.

[Bobby Stainless]

I am really a 15 year kid, in northern FL.

Never even smoked, or seen a mountain.

Don't know a thing about growing either.

[MotherFucker]

Wouldn't surprise me considering your "in the palm trees, got 'em topless..." or whatever the fuck your little subtitle is on ICMag.

But I'll stand by my gut and hope you aren't the best troll/poser in the history of TGR. I mean, they did kinda know who Bobby was at that dispensary off 16th that you suggested to us.

Gotta head out to the dispensary now, in fact. See yall in an hour or so.

[Bobby Stainless]

Changed it to On a buffalo.

My previous location, is a line from a rap song I like.

They don't know me, they know Bobby. Only a few people in the CO med scene actually know me.

[MotherFucker]

Right on. Sal Good III. I busted someone else pulling that shit on a different board just last week so now I'm all on alert.

Just picked up some Old Asian Blonde and Bubblefunk.

I'll let you know how it is.

[Bobby Stainless]

Why don't you grow? Store bought is expensive.

[MotherFucker]

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.

[Bobby Stainless]

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.

[Zeedashbo]

17 hour session yesterday. Two thirds done. God Damn!

[MotherFucker]

I may just take you up on that, B.

[Bobby Stainless]

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.



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.

[Bobby Stainless]

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.

[carvedog]

Wouldn't surprise me considering your "in the palm trees, got 'em topless..." or whatever the fuck your little subtitle is on ICMag.

But I'll stand by my gut and hope you aren't the best troll/poser in the history of TGR. I mean, they did kinda know who Bobby was at that dispensary off 16th that you suggested to us.

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.

[PowerWhore7]

PW7 presents the cycle of life in the CA sun. Disclaimer: I am no Bobby Stainless.

Seedlings...


2 weeks...


2 weeks...


3 weeks...


This is my Alpha - I call her bitch


What does your stash look like?

[senior researcher]

BOBBY FOR PREZ!

[Bobby Stainless]

Those are coming right along PW7. Nothing like free light.

What does your stash look like?

I love Deep Congo...


My stash is in various places, but this is what my desk looks like in my garage.


I need some organization.

The two most used pieces I have.


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).


Big pancake of hash under some sift


Loaded with Bubba Kush.


If I was small enough... bro... I bet I could ski this shit....

[NoPostholio]

damn that's me you write of isn't it? bring that mflb with you next journey.
i already got you hooked with the chronic soon as you get here, what you do
with it will be your bidness.
bF

That sounds awesome - glad your crew had a blast @ A.S.S. - be out in like 6 wks....

[dirtycod]

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.

[glademaster]

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.

[idiot]

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.

[Zeedashbo]

Wow just made some z-bho. Good way to use up the ear buds.