CO MMJ Labeling Requirements (Coming Soon)

[Frankie Pebbles]

Pretty sure you gotta ask to tie your shoes up here, and if you do make sure to.. loop, swoop, pull or the town gets to have butt sex with you (the whole town). Just a part of everyday compliance

 

[Dorje]

It's so fucked, I hope we don't have to get a lawyer involved because some douche-bureaucrat decided he's going to pull a power trip and discriminate against mmj businesses because of his personal bias. I can't help but wonder if this is what's going on. Maybe we need a class-action suit if we continue to get bent over all the time and it becomes a trend. Maybe we need a new thread... Who's been f'ed by the city of Boulder post here?

 

[ganjherbsmoke]

last i checked 1284 was just all about bending the little guy over and plowing him for everything he has??

and the middle guys just get everything but their last penny taken lol

 

[Green Mopho]

LOL...thanks for the overwhelming responses...

Basically, what I'm getting at is...no dispensary (or caregiver, or anyone) wants to sell a bag of weed that has a paragraph for the lists of additives. Even if you don't use pesticides, but you use "bud booster" or hygrozyme, or whatever, you will have to list everything. I seriously feel sorry for the people using AN and all their (stupid) additives. But still, I doctor up my recipe, like most.

GH 3 part only has a stigma with the all organic folk. My dispensary just wants to slim down the list, go to a 1 part nutrient, no additives, as much organic as possible.

Right now my total list from clone to harvest would look something like this (omitting anything natural and/or organic and/or OMRI listed):

Clonex Rooting Gel, Olivia's Cloning Solution, General Hydroponics FloraMicro, General Hydroponics FloraGrow, General Hydroponics FloraBloom, KoolBloom, and may contain any/all of the following: DutchMaster Silica, H202, SM-90, pH Down, pH Up

What does this really say to a patient that doesn't know anything about growing?

Also, using the trade names on these stickers seems useless and like free advertising for those companies (only if its good bud). It would seem more useful to list the individual ingredients. But then if you were growing in mineral salts, you would just be listing all the inorganic compounds that plants require. And it wouldn't matter if you used a 1-part nutrient or a 50-part nutrient, you would be basically listing the same shit.

This really makes no sense. Foods containing GMO crops don't have to be listed, nor do the pesticides. Everything would say Monsanto Round Up and Monsanto Round Up Ready. Shit, its legal to spray imid on tomatoes up to 6 days before harvest, and you don't get a sticker. What about all the fluoride based compounds found in most prescription medications that are known to cause cancer and brain damage. Have you ever had a sticker for that?

And if I am using 3 part GH, what keeps me from lying? I know they will be testing, but if I flush properly, can the labs really test which brand of nutrients I used before flushing? With a good flush, and if my plants are all strong and have little to no deficiencies, shouldn't the tests come out the same for all brands of nutrients, even organics? Really, the goal is no residual phosphorous or nitrogen or anything that will make it taste or burn bad, right?

And no one mentioned the nutrient companies themselves? Do they want (or will they allow) people to list their products on bags of weed? Not all the companies that make nutrients are "out of the closet", some of them still just want us growing tomatoes...

 

[ganjherbsmoke]

Those are very solid questions gm my guess or hope lol is that like pp said, the salts and compounds in nutes used will be listed w the brand names being left out, we don't wanna give free adverts to GH or whoever u chose to use, just the basics which is probably more than enough for the average consumer, like its been said as if anyone knows what's going into their salads or daily meals, ha what a proccess us ganj growers must go thru...who wants to grow poppies for phizer I bet that's way easier Lol

 

[Sshfan]

This is of course a load of crap. Had anyone gone to another "organic" farm and find out what fertilizers that they use to produce their vegetables and what types of regulations are put on a crop like organic tomatoes or other vegetables. Surely, there are some rules set in place that can be applied to mmj without bias as it seems is being applied in Boulder. If other organic produce does not apply such stringent regulations, maybe there is grounds for yet another law suit to get these rules set properly.

 

[beezleb878]

Sort of reminds of the ingredients being mandatory for food. I am sure many of the same arguments were made about that.

It wont change anything except potentially making extreme or pure veganics style of growing becoming more lucrative or whatnot. People still eat at Mc Donalds every day and every knows that shit aint good for you. People will still get high and wont really care what its grown from really. My god I am sure if people knew about the reality of most of the things they use they would be shocked.

It also might increase the value of some additives. Lets say some additive gets a lot of hype about strength. People may look for that additive. Caring more about its strength than organic nature. In that instance it could be beneficial.

I dont mind it really but have not looked at it that far in detail.

 

[Dorje]

For clones, try not using any rooting gel at all and B'cuzz root, diluted Age Old Bloom or you could make that EWC tea Okiedope posted somewhere back on ic. I've been using Clonex solution, it's just so easy and works well but B'cuzz root has worked well as a rooting solution in the past.

Earth juice sells "natural" pH up and down, but I never use pH adjusting stuff....

I doubt h2o2 or silica would count as a non-organic fert. or additive.

 

[COb]

For pH you can use lemon juice/baking soda (EJ up = baking soda fwiw)

 

[Frankie Pebbles]

Shit like this makes me miss America.. where did we go????

 

[Illmind]

Dorje I like your use of the douche combinations they are a good laugh. I wouldn't mind a sack o chron with it's cannabanoid content on it and lineage but you ain't getting the recipe nickles. This country sure knows how to fuck up a good thing. Should be the home of the brave and the land of the fee. If people keep reaching in the growers pockets the patients aren't gonna be able to afford meds. Which is what I thought this was about helping sick people, not taxing and figuring out a way to balance the state budget fucking cocksuckers. I don't live in a med state yet and the oldheds that need it for meds I give it to for free. Med states gotta stick together, the underground is stilll running it but if they don't stick together a few rich fucks are gonna take all. Once again the american way rich get richer poor get poorer. If you all stand together you can't fail.

 

[summitoker]

Okay, so mandatory testing of bud is coming in Colorado, and so is required labeling. I am being encouraged to change nutrients due to the stigma of GH Flora and cut down the additives quite a bit so there isn't a huge list of "ingredients" on my bags of weed.

Any insight as to how and what they are doing to go about this? I heard if its organic (or at least OMRI) you don't have to list it on the label.

I am growing in RDWC, I can't go fully organic...what now?

Im curious what stigma the flora carries with it?
Maybe run Advanced since they dont list any ingrediants anyway.

 

[CloneDoc]

dihydrogen monoxide can kill you

If this is going to be passed off as medicine it should have some regulations.
We should have a guarantee that its Fungus and pest free..

The Underground will always be alive until there is full legalization..

Gov. regulations always leads to tyranny. i say go back to how it was a few months ago and let the free market decide. if caregivers want to pay for lab test and list every little ingredient and patients want to pay extra for labeled meds then great. if patients want to save money and buy unlabeled farmers market style thats cool too. i'm personally Sick....of big brother.

City of Boulder also won't let you put hydro fluid down the drain, or landfill growing materials like rockwool.

that's just crazy. i saw a news story in bolder about how people allow big bro to control their thermostat and just turn their a/c off when they say they're using too much power. it's like whole neighborhoods that do it. it's promoted as going green and it's coming to house near you, maybe yours?

Gent down the line in Denver told me something similar about the nutes... not going to be able to just flush it anymore.

Don't quite know what that means... no waste feeding and/or collecting & disposing w a chem company...???


Funny... boulder inspector recently said no wood materials in the rooms... lol... they just reworked like 20 tables... lmao... and all were 'passed' before!

You can only laugh ;-)

the regs get worse everyday.:puke:shake

Right now my total list from clone to harvest would look something like this (omitting anything natural and/or organic and/or OMRI listed):

Clonex Rooting Gel, Olivia's Cloning Solution, General Hydroponics FloraMicro, General Hydroponics FloraGrow, General Hydroponics FloraBloom, KoolBloom, and may contain any/all of the following: DutchMaster Silica, H202, SM-90, pH Down, pH Up

What about all the fluoride based compounds found in most prescription medications that are known to cause cancer and brain damage. Have you ever had a sticker for that?

great thread.
DutchMaster Silica, H202, SM-90, pH Down & pH Up should be ok but who knows how crazy they will get. the ph up and down ingredients alone would scare the hell out of most patients.
most people would be shocked to find out that all marijuana contains dihydrogen monoxide, scary stuff.

fluoride IS bad sh!t. i wonder why they put it (sodium fluoride) in our drinking water? i wonder if you need to list that?
i saw a report a few years ago that was all over the news about how our drinking water contained all kinds of pharmaceuticals like Prozac and female hormones. wonder if you have to list that too? ;)

i love my r.o. even if it won't filter out the dihydrogen monoxide.

 

[RMCG]

Here is a shot of my nute res...

Glad its organic! Pretty sure no one would want to know its full of shit.

 

[mr. bojangles]

It Amazes me how thoroughly fucked up the government can fuck something up. It's equally amazing how the people continue to allow it to happen.

 

[Sshfan]

I suppose and organic super soil mix that can be reused will be they way to go for people that care about the organic label. This would be a lot easier to accomplish outdoors under a greenhouse than an indoor facility but from what I understood the location must be indoors, secure, and under 24 hour surveillance.

 

[RMCG]

Whatever happened to Boulder's requirement for electricity usage? Where they wanted indoor grows to 'put back' on the grid all the energy they used via green tech, solar, etc. What a joke that is...

Pretty soon everyone there is going to need a 'fart reclamation apparatus' attached to their asses to help offset their own carbon footprint.

People should be screaming about this stuff. No other 'farm' has to do this stuff. When was the last time you saw nutrient schedules on hydro tomatoes at the supermarket? If you knew what some cows/chickens were fed and injected with, you would become a vegan instantly.

To me, its backwards anyway. Organics fetch a premium in the food market and they ARE certified Organic. Unless you are Whole Foods and you LIE!

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While I can understand no one wanting pesticides sprayed on something they smoke, I think that lab testing (for contaminants, mold/spores, THC/CBD levels etc.) is a far better plan.

Should it be required? No. But those that want a little 'extra' as a selling point will do it.

 

[cannagirl]

RMCG- Boulder City is still making grows offset their power, basically just charging them double for the offset. Thanks god we are in BoCo not the city, cus the power req is retarded!

 

[RMCG]

RMCG- Boulder City is still making grows offset their power, basically just charging them double for the offset. Thanks god we are in BoCo not the city, cus the power req is retarded!

How can a city government control what a 'private' company can charge you? Xcel (while it is a 'public' service, is still a PRIVATE company). Do they do that for other shops in the industrial zones? This is not the only industry that consumes electricity.

I would ~rather~ pay dbl elec rates than have to install a 100k solar array though.

 

[cannagirl]

Well all of it for the most part is just BS, I mean xcel power was given 8 year to comply with new regulations that were placed upon them. 8 years to a giant company and a little under 8 weeks for the middle class working woman/man, doesnt make sense at all.

Oh and the city doesnt decide what xcel charges for the offset, thats completely up to xcel, isnt that nice*sarcasm*

Then with the labeling, does the average person know what GH 3-part means, absolutely not. I have a friend who lives in another state, but she follows the forums to see pics of whats going on out here and she always asks me what something means. Her exact words were "it sounds like you guys are talking some sort of slang I dont understand, in regards to growing."

So my point being, consumer mis- or lack of education and information on the growing techniques of the bud or edibles they are buying, will not change with labeling requirements. I think it will only confuse them more. All plants uptake NPK no matter if your feeding the plant directly or if your feeding the soil. The biological process of the plant is the same for organic or salts.

What really needs to be on labels, if the govt is so stuck on using them, is the certification of mold and pest free meds. On edibles I want to see a caloric breakdown, I want to see ingredients, amount of product used, and I want to see that it tested mold free. Right now Im terrified to eat any commercially made edibles, who knows what kind of bud or product was used. was it covered in mites? was it covered in mold? who knows because there is no testing required. And because MIP's are producing only for edibles and no one ever has to see the original product, Im sure the product used is not fit for smokable consumption before it is processed into sodas, cakes, candies, oils, tinctures, and the list goes on and on.