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[anaissoto21]

Please help me change Illinois laws on grow limits! Just a quick signature and share please

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Amendment to Raise the Legal Limits of Medical Cannabis Homegrow in Illinois

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[Bdubs]

IMO- if you need more than 5 plants at a time to grow for personal you have a smoking problem.

I personally don’t think crop loss should even be an argument for home growers. It sounds like “I am a noob grower, so please raise the plant limit so I can figure it out first”.

Look, if you can legally grow 5 plants, you can have 5 more in veg and 5 more in seedling. So you can perpetually grow 4 crops a year easy. 5 plants. 4 week veg 8 week harvest 5 plants 2-3 pounds…8-12 pounds a year. Who is smoking that much weed? Nobody, it ends up on the street because 9/10 growers with 2 pounds have a high urge to sell their home grow dispensary weed to their friends for a nice chunk of cash.

I am asked at least 2 times a month if I will sell my weed. You have to be a strong individual to put down someone offering 200 a zip every 2 weeks like clockwork. Very difficult to resist when the world revolves around money. I do send family members home with ounces though lol, because it’s not illegal to gift it or give away to reduce your holding limit in your home. Because there is also a hold limit too. You can’t just stash 5 pounds at home that’s illegal even with a medical card. It’s something like 32 ounces no more or you are breaking the law and grow license agreement.

So along with that grow limit, they should increase the hold limit too? It gets deep when asking for changes. Unless nobody can successfully grow 5 plants at a time due to pests because Illinois has that issue state wide, I don’t see this being a good argument, pests and crop loss as being a good argument.

If you are making your own extract, you are doing more than growing medical for its flower. You would be asking to increase the limit because the current limit doesn’t allow you enough byproduct for manufacturing to produce that byproduct you use. So in the example with the dogs medication, it’s not a license for manufacturing ira just to grow weed and they don’t account for the people extracting and therefore reducing medication amount into a concentrated form. They don’t want to accommodate for individuals doing specific things because they don’t condone extracts and derivatives for home growers.
It would be home manufacturing at that point and I can see them offering a separate license for personal manufacturing that would allow for more plants to be grown on the basis that it is being reduced for the medicine.

 

[Galgrows]

IMO- if you need more than 5 plants at a time to grow for personal you have a smoking problem.

I personally don’t think crop loss should even be an argument for home growers. It sounds like “I am a noob grower, so please raise the plant limit so I can figure it out first”.

Look, if you can legally grow 5 plants, you can have 5 more in veg and 5 more in seedling. So you can perpetually grow 4 crops a year easy. 5 plants. 4 week veg 8 week harvest 5 plants 2-3 pounds…8-12 pounds a year. Who is smoking that much weed? Nobody, it ends up on the street because 9/10 growers with 2 pounds have a high urge to sell their home grow dispensary weed to their friends for a nice chunk of cash.

I am asked at least 2 times a month if I will sell my weed. You have to be a strong individual to put down someone offering 200 a zip every 2 weeks like clockwork. Very difficult to resist when the world revolves around money. I do send family members home with ounces though lol, because it’s not illegal to gift it or give away to reduce your holding limit in your home. Because there is also a hold limit too. You can’t just stash 5 pounds at home that’s illegal even with a medical card. It’s something like 32 ounces no more or you are breaking the law and grow license agreement.

So along with that grow limit, they should increase the hold limit too? It gets deep when asking for changes. Unless nobody can successfully grow 5 plants at a time due to pests because Illinois has that issue state wide, I don’t see this being a good argument, pests and crop loss as being a good argument.

If you are making your own extract, you are doing more than growing medical for its flower. You would be asking to increase the limit because the current limit doesn’t allow you enough byproduct for manufacturing to produce that byproduct you use. So in the example with the dogs medication, it’s not a license for manufacturing ira just to grow weed and they don’t account for the people extracting and therefore reducing medication amount into a concentrated form. They don’t want to accommodate for individuals doing specific things because they don’t condone extracts and derivatives for home growers.
It would be home manufacturing at that point and I can see them offering a separate license for personal manufacturing that would allow for more plants to be grown on the basis that it is being reduced for the medicine.

Well spoken here

 

[HerbalEdu]

plant amount limitation laws are plain stupid ...

where in the world it's only allowed to grow only 5 vineyard plan or 5 hop plan per person ...

 

[kushypushy]

The limit laws are there so you can't knock the state and government out of getting money from the dispensaries..until its legal nation wide like alcohol anyways

 

[HerbalEdu]

they don't into account the growing methods plant size and amount can vary a lot for the same yield...

plain stupid ...

 

[kushypushy]

How new is legalization where you live?? Is it by per house or per person how many plants you can have

 

[Bigalmoby]

Do what I did build a taller fence and meaner dogs

 

[Zzzax]

IMO- if you need more than 5 plants at a time to grow for personal you have a smoking problem.

I personally don’t think crop loss should even be an argument for home growers. It sounds like “I am a noob grower, so please raise the plant limit so I can figure it out first”.

Look, if you can legally grow 5 plants, you can have 5 more in veg and 5 more in seedling. So you can perpetually grow 4 crops a year easy. 5 plants. 4 week veg 8 week harvest 5 plants 2-3 pounds…8-12 pounds a year. Who is smoking that much weed? Nobody, it ends up on the street because 9/10 growers with 2 pounds have a high urge to sell their home grow dispensary weed to their friends for a nice chunk of cash.

I am asked at least 2 times a month if I will sell my weed. You have to be a strong individual to put down someone offering 200 a zip every 2 weeks like clockwork. Very difficult to resist when the world revolves around money. I do send family members home with ounces though lol, because it’s not illegal to gift it or give away to reduce your holding limit in your home. Because there is also a hold limit too. You can’t just stash 5 pounds at home that’s illegal even with a medical card. It’s something like 32 ounces no more or you are breaking the law and grow license agreement.

So along with that grow limit, they should increase the hold limit too? It gets deep when asking for changes. Unless nobody can successfully grow 5 plants at a time due to pests because Illinois has that issue state wide, I don’t see this being a good argument, pests and crop loss as being a good argument.

If you are making your own extract, you are doing more than growing medical for its flower. You would be asking to increase the limit because the current limit doesn’t allow you enough byproduct for manufacturing to produce that byproduct you use. So in the example with the dogs medication, it’s not a license for manufacturing ira just to grow weed and they don’t account for the people extracting and therefore reducing medication amount into a concentrated form. They don’t want to accommodate for individuals doing specific things because they don’t condone extracts and derivatives for home growers.
It would be home manufacturing at that point and I can see them offering a separate license for personal manufacturing that would allow for more plants to be grown on the basis that it is being reduced for the medicine.

In Illinois NO you can't have 5 flowering + 5 vegging + 5 seedlings at the same time!
The argument that veg plants and seedlings are Federally legal because they are hemp will get you Jail Time! States can regulate hemp in their State. Just look at California!
Sure sure you can grow or posses hemp in Illinois but you will need a license and must grow or posses only Hemp Certified by the State. It's an easy DNA test to find out.
So Illinois legalized 5 plants only for those who pay fees to the State and a private corporation so they can be medical and the regular people cannot grow at all.
If you get caught with 5 or less it's a fine for the first time. 5+ for the first time is jail or prison.
Illinois is all about the Benjamins'. Illinois is just now (2025) going to stop taxing food. That is very good news for the poor people in the downtrodden rural areas.

 

[Galgrows]

4 per household in Oregon must be out of site when growing outdoor.

 

[Galgrows]

In Illinois NO you can't have 5 flowering + 5 vegging + 5 seedlings at the same time!
The argument that veg plants and seedlings are Federally legal because they are hemp will get you Jail Time! States can regulate hemp in their State. Just look at California!
Sure sure you can grow or posses hemp in Illinois but you will need a license and must grow or posses only Hemp Certified by the State. It's an easy DNA test to find out.
So Illinois legalized 5 plants only for those who pay fees to the State and a private corporation so they can be medical and the regular people cannot grow at all.
If you get caught with 5 or less it's a fine for the first time. 5+ for the first time is jail or prison.
Illinois is all about the Benjamins'. Illinois is just now (2025) going to stop taxing food. That is very good news for the poor people in the downtrodden rural areas.

Yes they are trying to add a sales tax here also, it's been voted down for years.

 

[Zzzax]

Yes they are trying to add a sales tax here also, it's been voted down for years.

When I got here in 21 I saw that food was taxed. I think I said loudly at checkout what evil is this! Taxing food is evil and hurts the very poor.

But yes on allowing medical to have a higher plant than 5 count by default is freedom! It should be like California flowering and non-flowering.

So yeah medical in Illinois need to have clones or seedlings and flowering.
I lost a whole years supply in just 10 hours last year when I wasn't home.
If I had backup plants ready to go in case I could have recovered the loss.

For me, I don't grow when it gets hot because I don't spend on a lot of AC so it's winter or nothing for me. I could make seeds after a grow if I had clones ready to go. Just saying. Not every plant gets consumed. Sometimes the become mommies and daddies for new plants :)
Outside growing is a real no no with the Christian Nationalists in charge. That would be just asking to get arrested for something.

 

[Zzzax]

Please help me change Illinois laws on grow limits! Just a quick signature and share please

Sign the Petition

Amendment to Raise the Legal Limits of Medical Cannabis Homegrow in Illinois

chng.it

I signed and I wrote J.B Pritzker. We should have flowering and non-flowering. 5 + 5
The reason for Illinois not having more count was that it would impact State profits for both dispensary and penitentiary I am told.

 

[Bdubs]

I signed and I wrote J.B Pritzker. We should have flowering and non-flowering. 5 + 5
The reason for us not having that was that it would impact profits.

Yes they need to implement non flowering plants.

 

[Zzzax]

4 per household in Oregon must be out of site when growing outdoor.

That is for everyone, Household I mean, pun intended.

Measure 91 in a Nutshell​

On November 4, 2014 the Oregon voters passed Measure 91 by a margin of 56% to 44%. The Act was entitled “Control, Regulation, and Taxation of Marijuana and Industrial Hemp Act.”


Measure 91 (M91) allows any individual over the age of 21 to grow, purchase, and possess cannabis in limited quantities.
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Purchase limits for recreational user:

• 1 ounce of flower
• 5 grams of concentrate or extracts
• 16 ounces of edibles in solid form
• 72 ounces of edibles in liquid form
• 10 cannabis seeds
• 4 immature plants

Purchase limits for OMMP cardholders:

• 24 ounces of usable marijuana (1 ounce from a recreational dispensary)
• 16 ounces of a medical cannabis product in solid form
• 72 ounces of medical cannabis product in liquid form
• 16 ounces of a cannabis concentrate (alone or contained in an inhalant delivery system)
• 50 cannabis seed
• 4 immature plants

* Medical patients have access to medical grade products if available.

Personal Growing Limits​

Oregon is one of the few states that currently allows for personal cultivation of cannabis. A household can grow up to a total of 4 plants on their private property. The 4 plant limit is a household limit regardless of the number of adults living in the household. OMMP cardholders can have 6 mature plants, 12 immature plants 24 inches or taller. and 36 immature plants under 24 inches.


Plants can be grown inside or outside; if grown outside, the plants must be out of public view. Some cities or counties restrict the sale of recreational marijuana, but this restriction does not limit household growing. Homegrown cannabis is for personal consumption only and cannot be sold or given to someone in exchange for something of value.


The ability to grow your own cannabis plants is not absolute: If you are leasing your home, the landlord can restrict the property from being used in the cultivation of cannabis. Federal law prohibits growing the plant within 1,000 feet of a school, even if it is on private property. While growing at home is legal, processing the plant into a concentrate without a state-compliant facility is illegal and could be dangerous.

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Folks I am in the last third of life and while these changes concerning weed are better then what we had when I smoked my first joint, You younger folks must keep fighting!
This latest is the Reschedule of Cannabis from Schedule One (like Heroin) to Schedule 3 (like cough medicine with codeine) MAY end up keeping folks from being fired or denied a job..
That states are now in the drug business and a Citizen of the State buying and consuming Cannabis in that state where it's "Legal" still can't work for that State if they test positive for high level of the breakdown of Cannabinoids.
The War is NOT won people!
And speaking of that I am off to be an Election Judge this morning.
If you are not voting for Harris you better think again!
When Trump was explained to that when he signed the 2018 Farm Bill that he legalized Hemp he was very upset! Do you think he will sign off on Rescheduling Cannabis?
VOTE Harris and Vote today!

 

[Zzzax]

The Illinois laws are pages and pages of how the Game is played and how the money is split.

The Freedom part is half a page:
HOME GROW
• Illinois residents who are 21 years or older and registered participants in the
Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program may cultivate cannabis plants.
o The grower must live in a household that owns the residence or has permission
from the owner.
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o The grower is limited to growing no more than 5 plants that are five inches or
taller.
o The grower shall take reasonable precautions to ensure that plants are secure
from unauthorized access.
o If the grower violates the terms of the Act, that person is liable for penalties as
provided by law as well as the loss of home cultivation privileges as established
by rule.

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So that is it for freedom. The upside is you will not go to jail if you buy their weed but you will go to jail if you buy weed from someone not on their team.

When you read these pages and look at it from not a document that grants freedom you see it boxes people in to a money maker only and once again the people are oppressed.
Like people are going to stop using weed... Pffffft! The Cavemen did it and we still do it and we will continue doing it no mater what oppressive laws designed to let some people be in the drug business and corner the market are in place.
Honestly friends, dispensary weed ain't top shelf but it's sold at top top shelf prices

 

[Bdubs]

It’s a lot of crap. I admit that there are stoners I run into while They work, stoned. They cannot perform their duties. Smoking the wrong weed for work. They make everyone look bad. You know the people I am talking about, the ones that can’t help you without a “Hold uh, let me look online what isle that is”. “Uh, did I give you coke or a Dr Pepper”? Lol.

Thats why Trump hates weed. He is a business man, he knows weed is counter productive to business. Stoners are bad for business and bad for production. At least, the baddies who can’t handle their smoke while working give Trump a sour taste in his mouth.

 

[orggrwr]

In Virginia it's 4 plants per household period. Doesn't matter what stage they are in. But who's counting?

 

[Olddude420]

In Arizona it's legal to grow 6 per person or a total of 12 plants. I just finished my indoor grow of 3 plants that's now curing. Started with 4 but lost one the Herm. Total yield is 2.2 pounds of dried flower off 3 plants. By law i could have grown 12 plants that could have potentially yielded somewhere close to 8 pounds of weed. That is a crazy amount of weed.
Man, just having it legal (finally) to grow any amount of weed is awesome.
For some of us we grew up when having it or growing it was 100% illegal and would face jail time. No complaints here in Arizona.

 

[Ninjadogma]

It's not a free for all in California either. I'm in a city that has an ordinance against outdoor growing but they do allow greenhouse growing if it can be locked and made inaccessible to teenagers trying to steal plants. Well I set up a shed for growing but if the sun is out, so are the plants... Because it's free energy I don't have to pay for. I figure if code enforcement ever knocks on my door, "I'm just cleaning the shed out right now."