There are out every year looking for what is in the link I posted, not for 3 plants. Seriously. Seeing them is so normal I barely notice. They are not going to spend money looking for 3 plants, they are looking for fields of hundreds.
I wasn't even talking about being a legal patient. As long as you are growing for yourself as medicine then you wouldn't be convicted.
A good idea that many people do is get a card from a compassion club as proof. All you need for a card is a LOD (letter of diagnosis from your doctor)
I doubt your friend was convicted of an offence because to get a designated growing license you haver to have a 10 year clear record with no convictions. To get a personal production license, you can have them though.
The great thing about applying for a card from a compassion club is that you do not have to have your doctors permission to use.
All that is needed from these compassion clubs or dispensaries is confirmation that you have some type of disorder that can be holistically treated. It doesn't even have to be listed under either the B1 or B2 classification.
Getting a 'letter of diagnosis' from your doctor can be easy since they are needed for any type of insurance. You don't even have to tell your doctor what it is for if you are worried about it.
From there if you are still interested, you can look into applying for an MMAR exemption. If you cannot get one for yourself; perhaps a friend or family member might need a grower. There are many Canadians that are in need of good compassionate growers.
It also doesn't mean that you have to work for nothing if you decide to do so.
Yeah you can actually get crop insurance but most of the people who do this type of thing are serious professional growers and want to insure their grow. If there is ever theft or fire, their crop and the cost of it as well as the damages are then covered.Thanks much for the info straintester. There seems to be relatively little real/useful information about Canadian MMJ on the net that I could find.
Yes, my friend had no record and applied for a designated grower status immediately after being busted. His court process has hardly begun, so of course no conviction at this point, and I'm sure he and his lawyer will do everything possible to keep it that way. He was selling mostly to local compassion club, so things are roughly the same now, just legal and documented.
I've seen his DG card. Cool, never seen anything like that before, other than the joke license application in the late 70's/early 80's "Grow yer own stone" book I bought back then.
As for home insurance, it used to be you couldn't get it in Canada with a "Grow op", even if that "Grow op" was fully legal. I've since read there is at least one company that will write such policies now, with added requirements and cost of course.
Very interesting, thanks. Due to some disability coverage I already have letters etc. from my shrink showing diagnoses of depression and anxiety. May also mention insomnia. I've read anxiety and insomnia are recognized B2 conditions.
So with these letters/documents of diagnosis I can get a compassion club card. And that card helps to prove my need ? Or is the card superfluous when I have written diagnoses ?
I have no intention at this time of becoming a compassion club customer. My friend will sell me at around $2k/pound ($4.50/gram) and I'm pretty sure such clubs sell that for at least double, around $10/gram. And I'd much rather grow my own anyway. Would prefer to be a supplier rather than a customer.
If it was legal, I would very strongly consider becoming a designated grower. I'm very tired of the BS of the corporate world in my tech career. I've done well, likely much better than I could do as a DG, but I feel I pretty much need to be my own boss and choose my own hours etc.
DG might not have much of a future as a career if we get, or get closer to legalization. But there's lots of related stuff I would be happy to do, including electronic/computer components/software for growers.
The thing is; everyone who posted in this thread, did so to try and help you out
You're welcome
ouch, water cure? seems a shame to me, don't you want it to taste and smell as strong as possible, lol? that's what i'm going for, that and the medicinal effect of course. you could do the first stage of drying under a tree, then after a few days move it to your garage for a few days and then you should be able to jar it, as long as you open the jars regularly and check on them, spreading the buds out again for an hour or 2 if they feel too wet after jarring. not really a fan of water curing here
but it's true that it can be a smelly few days, specially the first few days of it drying. yeah the ozone stuff eats the taste and smell too. very difficult to contain smell during trimming and drying without a carbon scrubber around some where to clean the air.
Not sure if you heard, but the news said there was an influx of choppers a bit back because there was a major tv production crew taking shots of Ottawa.
Two weeks after the 3 day chopper invasion ended and nary a chopper to be heard. Another week or so and I can rest much easier again.
Sativa is harvested and the last 5% is trying to reveg in my garage CFL cabinet. 2 Indicas are starting to brown their pistils nicely now.
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I've been figuring out the aeronautical charts for my area. Sure enough I'm just a few miles from THE "Vortac" for the Ottawa International airport. This is a radio transmitter in a round building that I've now found on Bing and Google maps.
The VORTAC is where planes turn to follow different airways, sort of a traffic intersection. Sure enough one of the airways goes directly over my house. Perhaps this is also why I saw a chopper circling one night for a while. Perhaps the holding pattern is done over the VORTAC.