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Michigan vs Maine: where'd you rather grow and live?

You actually got calls on jobs in Lansing? lol... I looked for work there for two years while sucking the unemployment teet. Fell victim to GM's bullshit a couple years ago and got downsized out the door. Moved back to the pinkie area and got my old high school job washing dishes. Seems like a lot of folks around here are still at those old high school jobs. Lifers I think we used to call them. he he... Nice and quiet up here though. Miss Lansing - the dispensary in old town (danny's) advertises on the radio that they'll pay $4000 a pound. Even the raggy ass bullshit immature buds - they sell the shit out of it for $400 a zip.
 

PoopyTeaBags

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lansing is a boil on michigans ass.... ihate that city.... if your looking for general employment... 8-10 an hour you can go to any major city and find some kind of job anywhere in the country... the problem is that people that work there ass off and are in spelciaty fields where the whole industry tanked and they used to make 15-40/hour and now they tell ya to go work for 8-15 it dont really pay the bills...

USA is the land of the 7-10/hour job and that dont pay bills...
 

PoopyTeaBags

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You actually got calls on jobs in Lansing? lol... I looked for work there for two years while sucking the unemployment teet. Fell victim to GM's bullshit a couple years ago and got downsized out the door. Moved back to the pinkie area and got my old high school job washing dishes. Seems like a lot of folks around here are still at those old high school jobs. Lifers I think we used to call them. he he... Nice and quiet up here though. Miss Lansing - the dispensary in old town (danny's) advertises on the radio that they'll pay $4000 a pound. Even the raggy ass bullshit immature buds - they sell the shit out of it for $400 a zip.



Danny is a joke and actually he/hydro world just got robbed at gunpoint 2 days ago... and if you like lansign they have had i think 40+ arm robberies in the last 2-3 months... so woohoo on the retail job!!!
 

Corpsey

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this might mean a whole lot of nothing but found it interesting.

the only state which had less people from the 2000 census to the 2010 census was michigan.
im sure the auto industry had something to do with it? but still worth noting that there are roughly 50,000 people less now then 10 years ago.

i mean shit even arkansas grew more peeps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_Census
 

StealthDragon

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I'd go with Maine if you can handle the winters. The higher price of living should balance out with the higher value of product there.
 

reddy1

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lansing's the most happening town in MI for MMJ, more than ann arbor. like 40 businesses related to it. pretty well established turf for some. i predict it to be overrun soon and prices will drop there first before detroit, flint, AA or GR will lower. cops are also busting clubs left and right keeping great supply unavailable to lots of patients in need(60,000 with cards so far).
 

ambition

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lol. Well god damn.

Should just say fuck it and move to a studio apartment in Boulder and be poor but surrounded by cool and interesting people.

Impossible to make money out there in the game as a new guy. O well.
 

PoopyTeaBags

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not impossible just need to know what your doing and have some capital...
 
Hydroworld got robbed? No big surprise, it wasn't a very tight shop to begin with. Last time I was in there the big ogre selling the bud was strapped with a 45 on his side for the world to see. Seems as if they were making so much money they'd have a guy behind that dark drape with a shotgun waiting for something stupid to happen instead of a strapped dealer. Danny might be a bit of a joke, but you gotta admit, the guy's got balls opening the store like he did. The first few days there was an unmarked cop car parked across the street photographing the ppl coming and going.

Haven't heard about any clubs getting busted here in Michigan. I go to the bay medical collective in Traverse sometimes. Overpriced but the quality is starting to improve. What's up with the CPL? Tasted like a SSH and had a distinct cat piss odor, was curious about it's lineage as I've been hearing about a cat piss pheno of ssh for a couple years now. Insanely priced but it was the best stuff I've gotten from there yet. They did have some "Chocolate Thunder" that was really good too, harsh but packed quite the punch.

As for the local police, I am just getting setup to get growing again. Hoping to be able to flip some overages to make up for our lovely job market here in the NW - just don't want any problems...

Sorry to get off topic, just like talking about the local scene here...
 

PoopyTeaBags

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Hydroworld got robbed? No big surprise, it wasn't a very tight shop to begin with. Last time I was in there the big ogre selling the bud was strapped with a 45 on his side for the world to see. Seems as if they were making so much money they'd have a guy behind that dark drape with a shotgun waiting for something stupid to happen instead of a strapped dealer. Danny might be a bit of a joke, but you gotta admit, the guy's got balls opening the store like he did. The first few days there was an unmarked cop car parked across the street photographing the ppl coming and going.

Haven't heard about any clubs getting busted here in Michigan. I go to the bay medical collective in Traverse sometimes. Overpriced but the quality is starting to improve. What's up with the CPL? Tasted like a SSH and had a distinct cat piss odor, was curious about it's lineage as I've been hearing about a cat piss pheno of ssh for a couple years now. Insanely priced but it was the best stuff I've gotten from there yet. They did have some "Chocolate Thunder" that was really good too, harsh but packed quite the punch.

As for the local police, I am just getting setup to get growing again. Hoping to be able to flip some overages to make up for our lovely job market here in the NW - just don't want any problems...

Sorry to get off topic, just like talking about the local scene here...


yea he got robbed and hes a disgrace to the whole movement...

I cant believe hes still around in fact... They are nothing but hood dealers that are paying for a commercial space... There weed is just above mids and they sell for top dollar...

and yes every dealer is strapped with a 45 for the world to see and as they serve people they take phonecalls and do drug deals on there phones in front of customers!!! Nice people should of known they were to big of pussies to use there guns... whats the point of being strapped if your afraid to pull it??/
 

ambition

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Geeze...armed guys showing off their heat, cops watching, the whole nine?

I prefer dealing with hippies and college kids who call me "bro," haha.

Definitely sad to hear the so-called legal market is that...err, shady.

If I ever felt I needed to a gun to mess around with a few ounces or even a few pounds, I'd change careers.

Different strokes I guess.

Reading that makes me realize that I'd probably be getting in over my head and into some unnecessarily negative situations if I were to change it up. Prob best to stay put.
 

whodair

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MI or ME ??

MI or ME ??

what about for a black guy ?? maine heavy on the salt, light on the pepper ?? diversity check here...i like a nice blend of people ...
 

Buddle

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maine is closer to the high paying markets...boston new york new jersey PA RI man theres just so much demand out there. michigan has chicago and a few other rust belt cities but those are full of working class beer drinkers not 20 year old pot smoking party animals that make up all the colleges in the NE area....plus the 99 plant thing sounds awesome...just like california.

the winters sound pretty tough but as long as you got a ton of northface jackets, heaters, and a snow mobile sounds like its doable. already got a 4x4 truck too...

i was thinking about moving to maine because its so cheap but my current mortgage and all my people are in california so its kinda hard to move....i feel like im fucking stuck here

Don't kid yourself with the 99 plant minimum..Anyone caught with a lb of finished product its automatic jail time. I have friends born and raised in Maine and most grow..Peeps are misled by that 99 plant figure.Med patients(I am one) are currently limited to six plants...and 2.5 oz finished product..good luck
Also, I grew up halfway between Bos and NYC. I know the game here.The more weed that makes it here from Cali and Colo..the harder it is to get prices we used to get..believe that..
 

Buddle

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what about for a black guy ?? maine heavy on the salt, light on the pepper ?? diversity check here...i like a nice blend of people ...

Not a lot of diversity in Maine Whodair...but peeps aren't racist either....peace
 

ambition

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Don't kid yourself with the 99 plant minimum..Anyone caught with a lb of finished product its automatic jail time. I have friends born and raised in Maine and most grow..Peeps are misled by that 99 plant figure.Med patients(I am one) are currently limited to six plants...and 2.5 oz finished product..good luck
Also, I grew up halfway between Bos and NYC. I know the game here.The more weed that makes it here from Cali and Colo..the harder it is to get prices we used to get..believe that..
this is what I'm talking about. Real knowledge from experience. I heard elsewhere that 99 plants and you're probably getting probation. It sounded like bullshit to me but you never know.
 

PoopyTeaBags

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Geeze...armed guys showing off their heat, cops watching, the whole nine?

I prefer dealing with hippies and college kids who call me "bro," haha.

Definitely sad to hear the so-called legal market is that...err, shady.

If I ever felt I needed to a gun to mess around with a few ounces or even a few pounds, I'd change careers.

Different strokes I guess.

Reading that makes me realize that I'd probably be getting in over my head and into some unnecessarily negative situations if I were to change it up. Prob best to stay put.


i know of three different GROUPS of 5-10 to 20 people that dont do shit but rob people... They find out who grow who deals and watch ya for a week and then kick in your door... if they dont find shit they come back and do it while your home... lansing in not a safe place to live if this is the game you want to get into... The poorer the city the worst the crimes peroid....

id go to maine get a place out in the country or go to michigan country michigan is beautiful and can be cheap... however i dont say its ever safe....
 

ambition

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i know of three different GROUPS of 5-10 to 20 people that dont do shit but rob people... They find out who grow who deals and watch ya for a week and then kick in your door... if they dont find shit they come back and do it while your home... lansing in not a safe place to live if this is the game you want to get into... The poorer the city the worst the crimes peroid....

id go to maine get a place out in the country or go to michigan country michigan is beautiful and can be cheap... however i dont say its ever safe....
Fucked up. But then, I've never had more than 2 people in the world know I was a grower. I guess if you're nickel and diming all over town, you get whats coming to you.

although I guess in your situation (not necessarily yours specifically, more like your state situation) dispensing to the clubs probably makes you a target. I'm sure robbers (to include robbers with badges) are watching every club and following people home.

Really sad that these are the steps required in a legal market. It really is. It's even sadder that people, good people, not thugs, have to do this shit just to survive.

First world country my dick.
 
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rick shaw

Ambition what is your situation. You started threads detailing your aversion to physical labor. Another thread detailing your attempts to sell blood for money.You have spun tales of having tens of thousands of dollars and of being straddled with debt from student loans. Don't forget your sick Mom,weren't you expressing concern for her.
Let's hear the truth. Are you really a psychologist,or should you be seeing one. Inquiring minds want to know.
 
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