'Pot Cops,' 'Weed Country' Examine Marijuana

[Payaso]

Weed Country episode 4 left me thinking that the whole thing is heavily scripted and contrived... and who in their right minds would allow a BUSTED dispensary owner facing time to visit their garden and make a deal? Some one who is in it for the $$$ that's who.
They all seem to be making claims about 'helping folks' with good medicine but it all boils down to the one guy trying to 'clear his name' in the cannabis community and 'restore his reputation' by making some big deals happen - seemingly at the expense of everyone else around him.
Some folks just don't have a clue how to survive when the gravy train stops or changes direction.

 

[Tudo]

Those growers have gigantic balls! Martyrs are remembered. It is the best of all of the weed shows yet. I love how the growers rag on the dispensary owner while standing right next to him. Nothing better than kicking a motherfucker while he is down.

Maybe if he wasn't such an egotisical immature asshole driving up in his rented porsche.

If the average guy/gal on the street sees this show they'll "vote" to keep it illegal. IMO

Now I only saw the 2 episodes they showed last night. There as ONE saving grace and that was the other guy, I don't know if he owned a dispensary or not but he went up and met with a grower that appeared to be in his late 60's, early 70's and he was looking for product to make a tincture out of for a women with an epileptic child. Now THAT would be great if they spent more time on it but the way media goes it seems they spent more focus on the pigs and the wannabe who somehow made his proposal to the right grower who was down on his luck at the right time and who in my opinion is nothing but trouble to the grower as look how fast he had some "dudes" agree to go with him to presumably meet the grower, unknown I think to the grower, nice right? The grower how now has no bank acct and no legal firearm to even defend himself. The show makes him appear to be like that mad bomber living in a shack in northern idaho or wherever. This could not be good for PR and surely there's a lot better real life that would be helpful they could make a show from.

Gotta "guess" when it's on again I guess . I'd like to see it again and see what happens with the child. Far as the police, I won't really say what would make me applaud them. Lowlife parasites.

 

[Tudo]

Weed Country episode 4 left me thinking that the whole thing is heavily scripted and contrived... and who in their right minds would allow a BUSTED dispensary owner facing time to visit their garden and make a deal? Some one who is in it for the $$$ that's who.
They all seem to be making claims about 'helping folks' with good medicine but it all boils down to the one guy trying to 'clear his name' in the cannabis community and 'restore his reputation' by making some big deals happen - seemingly at the expense of everyone else around him.
Some folks just don't have a clue how to survive when the gravy train stops or changes direction.

Right on

 

[PhenoMenal]

I've only seen the first two eps so far... I like it but I agree with Payaso that a lot of it is scripted/set up

Its not all like that tho, and its pretty interesting ... for example in S1E2 one guy gets another to read some legal manuscript about marijuana that states specifically that "Cannabis Sativa L." is illegal, but doesn't mention Indica, so suggests that if one was just growing indica there could be a legal loophole there

 

[RM - aquagrower]

... and who in their right minds would allow a BUSTED dispensary owner facing time to visit their garden and make a deal? Some one who is in it for the $$$ that's who.

Yep. In god we trust, all others pay cash.

 

[exploziv]

I've only seen the first two eps so far... I like it but I agree with Payaso that a lot of it is scripted/set up

Its not all like that tho, and its pretty interesting ... for example in S1E2 one guy gets another to read some legal manuscript about marijuana that states specifically that "Cannabis Sativa L." is illegal, but doesn't mention Indica, so suggests that if one was just growing indica there could be a legal loophole there

The one that said that wasn't right. And he was so sure about it, lol!

What we know as "Indica" is actually C. sativa subsp. indica, "sativa" being C. sativa subsp. sativa. Cannabis sativa is the species, indica and sativa are subspecies of that species.

That's very wrong & stupid legal advice..

 

[PhenoMenal]

exploziv,

What we know as "Indica" is actually C. sativa subsp. indica, "sativa" being C. sativa subsp. sativa.

I've got no idea how well it'd hold up legally, but are you sure of that? Wiki's pages for cannabis, and cannabis indica, both seem to suggest that it's a species of its own

This 2011 Canadian study where they published the genome of Purple Kush suggests uncertainty:
http://genomebiology.com/2011/12/10/R102

Wild and cultivated forms of cannabis are morphologically variable, resulting in confusion and controversy over the taxonomic organization of the genus (see [8] for review). Some authors have proposed a monotypic genus, C. sativa, while others have argued that Cannabis is composed of two species, Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica, and some have included a third species, Cannabis ruderalis, in the genus. In light of the taxonomic uncertainty, we use C. sativa to describe the plants analyzed in this study.

 

[igrowone]

exploziv,

I've got no idea how well it'd hold up legally, but are you sure of that? Wiki's pages for cannabis, and cannabis indica, both seem to suggest that it's a species of its own

This 2011 Canadian study where they published the genome of Purple Kush suggests uncertainty:
http://genomebiology.com/2011/12/10/R102

even mainstream science has its contentious debates, there are reputable researchers who still argue the classifications
however, i think it's more of a 'majority rules' in the legal interpretation
which means the legal establishment don't like weed and the people that use it, and screw any scientific dissent because they're probably dopers anyways

 

[wisco61]

Nice mules that guy had. The one white guy looked like Trevor from TPB, and about as smart. Then a black guy with dreads and a 300+ lb hispanic with facial piercings..... not exactly flying under the radar.

Good plan dude.

Also, real considerate of him letting the huge guy squeeze into the Geo Metro while he rolled in the SUV.

 

[amannamedtruth]

 

[FreedomFightr]

Thought it was interesting that leo was flying past gardens the size of orchards to go after a clandestine grow on public land. That speaks volumes... could they be respecting local ordinances for plant counts on private land perhaps??

Yes they are for the most part.

 

[Frogmann]

Weed Country episode 4 left me thinking that the whole thing is heavily scripted and contrived... and who in their right minds would allow a BUSTED dispensary owner facing time to visit their garden and make a deal? Some one who is in it for the $$$ that's who.
They all seem to be making claims about 'helping folks' with good medicine but it all boils down to the one guy trying to 'clear his name' in the cannabis community and 'restore his reputation' by making some big deals happen - seemingly at the expense of everyone else around him.
Some folks just don't have a clue how to survive when the gravy train stops or changes direction.

yep, Discovery Ch. reality TV is all fake. Just like all the other reality TV today.

 

[FreedomFightr]

Shitwell is a punk and is clueless. No wonder he got busted those type of dispensary owners make me sick.

 

[silverhazefiend]

This show is ass ...über fake ..I watched it for the first time last night hat to get a handle on it ..really scripted

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[AKDrifter]

The one thing I really wish they would do is make a clear distinction between the med/legal growers, personal use growers, and the criminal gorilla grows that they are raiding in the mountains. I dont think the average person who is not a smoker will see the difference.

They need to make it clear that the med growers who are legal are growing their plants and either providing for their patients, or dispenseries. I dont think med growers have anything to do with street crime and violence, unless they are the victims. but, that is not clear just watching the show.

When you see the LE side of the show they are all "armed and dangerous growers who will do anything to get their product on the streets". People need to realize the grows deep in the state forests, manned by cartel members (or their workers) are who is fucking up the environment with trash, and hazmat, and that prohibition fuels the illegal market. That illegal market is the root of all evil as far as marijuana is concerned.

They should also show another aspect of the MJ world. The average Joe personal use grower who does not sell anything to anyone, works a normal job, keeps it quiet, and enjoys his own smoke. I just think it would show how harmless MJ really is, and how most of us have nothing to do with the criminal element in any way. Just the guy next door who isn't harming anyone. I think that would really discredit much of the propaganda the LE side spews on the show.

 

[forty]

Matt Shotwell has his head sooo far up his ass it's insane. This dude has a pending case in Solano county and seems just begging to get it kicked to the feds with how bad he's incriminating himself...on national TV... pending case... unfukinbelievable.

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ne...merchant-discovery-channels-weed-country.html
Matt Shotwell has been raided, fined, and jailed twice. And now, televised.
Vallejo's one-time marijuana dispensary owner is again in the spotlight when "Weed Country" debuts at 7 p.m. on the Discovery Channel.

It was a year ago when Shotwell's "Greenwell Cooperative" was raided by the Vallejo police as part of a citywide crackdown on storefront dispensaries. His case is pending in Solano County Superior Court.

 

[theJointedOne]

I thought i read an article in the newspaper when I was on vaca in the bay that read Mr Shotwell got his charges dismissed...not sure if I read it right though, was a couple months ago

 

[Bobbito Blaze]

Phoney show makes the lifestyle look so shady

 

[forty]

I thought i read an article in the newspaper when I was on vaca in the bay that read Mr Shotwell got his charges dismissed...not sure if I read it right though, was a couple months ago

I don't know the douche nozzle personally but I know firsthand he has a case pending related to the dispensary.

 

[theJointedOne]

yeah your right, i read it wrong. I wonder how the case is gonna pan out, cant be good to have this air with 'case pending'. Sketch.