07-07-2016, 01:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2016, 01:09 PM by rastagirl777.)
Full disclosure: I do not smoke or eat weed. I use salves for my aches and pains.
Even though its none of anyone's business, we do grow for personal medical use. We do not do this for a living. When you say you "assumed my husband was a professional" - well, he certainly is...but not a professional weed farmer. He is a professional commercial photographer
Colorado: Checked with hub and here's the thing...first dispensaries there can only sell what they grow. They did have a selection, he was allowed to take a whiff and "no smell" was an overstatement. There was a "smell" and it smelled best of the little variety they had to offer....but it wasn't that great juicy smell of da kine bud. The weed seemed "old" to hub.
CBB - sure, everything is subjective. With any agricultural product the key is climate and conditions. Northern California has the best of both for weed growing - the same C&C needed for great wine grapes. Now, that said, indoor strains and conditions are not too shabby these days but there are very few that are organic. It depends on your taste and what you want out of your weed - hub prefers organic, hub prefers outdoor grown.
Northern California is also ground zero for what we know today to be Cannabis Culture. We lead the pack not only in the science & technology of growing great plants that yield - our farmers for the past 40 years have come up with most of those kick-ass strains that fill the pages of High Times. Even my little county of Sonoma leads the country in production of CO2 Extraction Oil - the process developed right here.
So, while many say our weed is "the best" - what I'm really proud about is our area's leadership in the field (pun kinda intended) and the fact that our state was the the first to pass an MMJ statute 20 years ago.
A lightbulb went off too when reading all the comments again - TOURISM. Hub's conundrum in Denver is that he went to a dispensary located in a tourist prone area. There were more people taking pictures of the place than there were buying things. People who are not used to "good" weed will think anything in a store to be novel and fantastic (and in a way it kinda is!). Hub is a long time smoker, grower and studier of the Cannabis Culture in a place where it all started to take shape. He visited the dispensary in Negril and was not impressed. The weed was old, funky. And while the products ("shatter", oil) were available they were made using a butane process. Like Denver for some going into a store to buy pot is oh-so-cool - and those folks would support dispensaries such as this. Still - those used to better and less expensive product will stick with their "guy" - thus my hope for all the "guys" out there. The rocky road will be the "man" sticking it to the "guy" as legalization becomes more real.
Even though its none of anyone's business, we do grow for personal medical use. We do not do this for a living. When you say you "assumed my husband was a professional" - well, he certainly is...but not a professional weed farmer. He is a professional commercial photographer
Colorado: Checked with hub and here's the thing...first dispensaries there can only sell what they grow. They did have a selection, he was allowed to take a whiff and "no smell" was an overstatement. There was a "smell" and it smelled best of the little variety they had to offer....but it wasn't that great juicy smell of da kine bud. The weed seemed "old" to hub.
CBB - sure, everything is subjective. With any agricultural product the key is climate and conditions. Northern California has the best of both for weed growing - the same C&C needed for great wine grapes. Now, that said, indoor strains and conditions are not too shabby these days but there are very few that are organic. It depends on your taste and what you want out of your weed - hub prefers organic, hub prefers outdoor grown.
Northern California is also ground zero for what we know today to be Cannabis Culture. We lead the pack not only in the science & technology of growing great plants that yield - our farmers for the past 40 years have come up with most of those kick-ass strains that fill the pages of High Times. Even my little county of Sonoma leads the country in production of CO2 Extraction Oil - the process developed right here.
So, while many say our weed is "the best" - what I'm really proud about is our area's leadership in the field (pun kinda intended) and the fact that our state was the the first to pass an MMJ statute 20 years ago.
A lightbulb went off too when reading all the comments again - TOURISM. Hub's conundrum in Denver is that he went to a dispensary located in a tourist prone area. There were more people taking pictures of the place than there were buying things. People who are not used to "good" weed will think anything in a store to be novel and fantastic (and in a way it kinda is!). Hub is a long time smoker, grower and studier of the Cannabis Culture in a place where it all started to take shape. He visited the dispensary in Negril and was not impressed. The weed was old, funky. And while the products ("shatter", oil) were available they were made using a butane process. Like Denver for some going into a store to buy pot is oh-so-cool - and those folks would support dispensaries such as this. Still - those used to better and less expensive product will stick with their "guy" - thus my hope for all the "guys" out there. The rocky road will be the "man" sticking it to the "guy" as legalization becomes more real.
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