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I want to grow & sell marijuana (legally)
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Dime
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Send that oil up to Canada, it's outrageous if you can even find any.
xtsho
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You might want to grow and sell cannabis for money but your chances of success at doing it are not good.. You'd be better off learning a skill that's in demand. Growing cannabis isn't a skill that's in demand. It's not a hard skill to learn and pretty much anyone with half a brain can master it in a few months.
Find a niche in IT and make some real money. Lots of stuff going on with machine learning, AI, and data. Even a Nurse Practitioner can make $100k a year. If you can handle that line of work. Some find it rewarding. You could probably make more money driving full time for Uber than growing weed.
So many people get a few grows of good weed under their belt and then think they can do it for money. There is so much more than just growing good weed. That's something many didn't realize before putting their life savings into a legal grow operation and then going broke. Many end up selling their equipment on craigslist for pennies on the dollar. I've watched it happen to someone I know. They ended up working two jobs and driving for Uber in order to keep their house. They made it through but suffered some serious pain and were set back years financially.
There are significant upfront costs. You need a dedicated location which means rent, then there is the equipment, energy costs, regulatory hurdles, etc... The commercial market has consolidated significantly everywhere it's been legalized. Large players are in control. They have arrangements with the dispensaries. You're not just going to be able to show up with what you think is great weed and get them to even look at it.
The number one question you need to ask yourself is "Who are you going to sell it to?" The market is saturated. Dispensaries don't need anymore suppliers.
Grow your own smoke for personal use and sharing with friends. Make your living doing something that is guaranteed to provide you with an income.
Find a niche in IT and make some real money. Lots of stuff going on with machine learning, AI, and data. Even a Nurse Practitioner can make $100k a year. If you can handle that line of work. Some find it rewarding. You could probably make more money driving full time for Uber than growing weed.
So many people get a few grows of good weed under their belt and then think they can do it for money. There is so much more than just growing good weed. That's something many didn't realize before putting their life savings into a legal grow operation and then going broke. Many end up selling their equipment on craigslist for pennies on the dollar. I've watched it happen to someone I know. They ended up working two jobs and driving for Uber in order to keep their house. They made it through but suffered some serious pain and were set back years financially.
There are significant upfront costs. You need a dedicated location which means rent, then there is the equipment, energy costs, regulatory hurdles, etc... The commercial market has consolidated significantly everywhere it's been legalized. Large players are in control. They have arrangements with the dispensaries. You're not just going to be able to show up with what you think is great weed and get them to even look at it.
The number one question you need to ask yourself is "Who are you going to sell it to?" The market is saturated. Dispensaries don't need anymore suppliers.
Grow your own smoke for personal use and sharing with friends. Make your living doing something that is guaranteed to provide you with an income.
Dime
Well-known member
And when you do pick a job ,consider picking one that later in life you can go out on your own and you will never be out of work. Some of the trades are like that,depending on where you live and offer a decent lifestyle. Get good with your hands and don't be scared of work and money will find you.
When i was young i wanted to be a Vicar because i thought you only had to work on Sundays.
ledo
Chasing the Present
YES ! it's the natural progression of any industry, give it a few more years, more time all of us educating as many as we know away from the boofy BLD hybrids all the same and being stoned vs getting high & alive with sativas... As has been said hundreds of times already, the craft beer and wine industries show us the way..... patience, hard work, commitment and unique skills will always prevail
anything in life that's easy or perceived to be easy.... you being snookered
Follow your dream!
The best thing you can invest in is Yourself!
If it’s something you enjoy and are dedicated enough, you can find a way to make it work.
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People are growing GMO cannabis?
Hi, you’d be much happier not knowing about it.
I’ve been corrected in that gmo technically describes the process of crossing unrelated species like a tomato with a snap dragon and a rubber plant, I think of anything modified, as modified, regardless of the process be it genetically edited or colchicine induced mutations.
Otherwise it makes it difficult to discuss as they keep finding new ways of modifying things which are apparently not modified, they’re whatever word was chosen to describe the new method.
Really it’s better not to know, the rabbit hole is deep and dark.
Evidently, my little ears are much to delicate to hear the truth.
What’s gmo then? Surly the spider goat was gmo, there’s a tomato x snap dragon currently for sale that’s advertised as gmo.
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...murky waters to outright say how an organism can be classified as GMO...
The key distinction is that GMOs have been intentionally altered using genetic engineering techniques that would not occur through traditional breeding methods
so, first we'd make the offspring from a snapdragon x tomato cross...if successful that offspring is just an F1...it isn't a GMO yet...if we act on the new offspring plants in an unnatural way, like CRSPER gene editing, or x-rays cleaving, or other whack unnatural experiments yes then it is a GMO...if we just take a snapdragon x tomato offspring and find a mutant in the population, and start breeding it,..that is not a GMO
Ok, maybe it’s better to know although it’s not good news.
I’m sure now that cbd is not naturally occurring and that skunk was modified in a similar way, it has resulted in a diversity of 250+ cannabinoids being reduced to 2 or possibly 1 depending on whether you consider cbd to be a cannabinoid because it acts as an antagonist at the receptor.
Almost all cannabis currently available is a descendant of either skunk or industrial hemp.
It’s now a critically endangered species and it’s probably too late to save it.
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How are you sure that CBD isn't natural? How was skunk modified?
Weird, I thought it was the other way around, genetically edited food is being sold as organic here as the regulators don’t consider it to be gmo. I’m just referring to anything modified as modified from now on to avoid confusion.
I discussed this at length in another thread, in the end everyone gave up arguing the opposite but it took a few pages, hang on a min I’ll send you the link..
There were no GMO's before 1973, according to a quick search on the subject.
