oldfogey8
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One of my son’s best buds has a degree in forsestry from UMaine here. He has his head on straight. No jobs in forestry so, being a smart, motivated young man, he expanded his area of expertise towards cannabis since the industry has exploded. He was hired by some investors to set up a grow operation. He worked his ass off to get them set up, designed the facility from seed to harvest to distribution, even hooked them up with a source for clones of obscure but kick ass clones(I have some of his gear running now). Put in 80 hour weeks for a couple years. Got the whole op up and running but the corporate machine screwed him. He was flush with legal product and the owners shut him down because they wouldn’t lower the price. In the states, there are tax incentives on businesses where you can write off losses in the first 5 years of operations at a higher rate than afterwards. He was set up to fail. They sold the business out from under him while he was on vacation. He was promised the world and got shafted with no benefit at all for his work. When cannabis gets legalized, the rich get richer and the little guy gets it up the bum. I hope your kids can use the knowledge you have transferred to them but this anecdotal story is sad for me. He went from cannabis entrepreneur to working at a organic vegetable production manager(where he got screwed by a foreign owner again since he was a trusting young man) to looking at starting a boutique landscaping company in about 6 years. Some posts earlier on this thread said the posters hate people. There are a lot of hate-worthy people in this world.I've taught all my kids how to grow (except for 3 of them in the Philippines who I support but dont live with ) - they've been watching and helping me do it for years anyway - it's an interesting botanic science lesson for them - and could afford them a good living doing it - in the future - if whatever they do decide to do in life doesn't work out - or just to augment whatever they do do -
My eldest is 36 - and my youngest is 10 years old - and I have 7 kids in total around the world - (that I know of) -