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Yep.. Its silly up here. Govt sells for $8-15 per gram, no bulk discounts. So ounces can cost $250-$400. You can go to an unlicensed black market dispensary and buy an ounce of better weed for $150, or you can find a local grower pretty easily and buy it for $100 an ounce.
The govt put so much red tape and regulation on legal production to keep out all the regular Joe's, that its backfiring because now legal weed is too expensive to produce at a competitive rate.
I do believe this is all a prelude to something much worse though... Its only a matter of time before police start cracking down.
Just a couple weeks ago a young couple in Revelstoke opened their home to the public for a garden tour in the neighborhood. An off duty cop happened to be on the tour and the next week the couple had their house trashed in a search and their 3 pot plants confiscated because they were "visible to the public through invitiation"... Even though they were on the property and not visible to anybody unless you were in their backyard. Pretty Lame..
Seriously, read this... Its nuts.
Nice screed you got there. Would be a shame if you let any facts in there.
I havent registered as a caregiver for a couple of years now. Just a medical patient. I believe the big 5 patient caregivers will be at risk next. They are allowed 12 plants for each patient and 12 for themselves.
Im staying far under the radar. Funny new pot store owners i have talked to still want out flowers and edibles.
One of the biggest problems i think with regulated weed and growers/ dealers is we are all already used to being criminals.
No big deal. ;-)
I havent registered as a caregiver for a couple of years now. Just a medical patient. I believe the big 5 patient caregivers will be at risk next. They are allowed 12 plants for each patient and 12 for themselves.
Im staying far under the radar. Funny new pot store owners i have talked to still want out flowers and edibles.
One of the biggest problems i think with regulated weed and growers/ dealers is we are all already used to being criminals.
No big deal. ;-)
Yeah you are on a real slippery slope with that. As I said in another thread all it takes is for them to kick it up to the Fed level in a case now all of a sudden you are in conspiracy / distribution charge territory (in the US). This has been used quite a few times in different cases. Big problem for you since they will have all the paperwork and listing of a caregiver with you basically admitting it. Specially if you are doing it outside of a licensed facility with no over site or inspections aka a commercial spot. That is where they will get you on it. I've always been a skeptic. Even being in a med state with a card and a high plant count I have never listed caregiver on any of my stuff and I fly super under the radar. Still grow like I did in a non med/rec state. Way to many easy targets and I'm def not one of them.
All it takes is one cop with a bad attitude.
Black market is doing pretty well in Canada even with country wide legalization.
And it's because corporations are greedy.
But, If some of these companies develop and patent GMO's I could see it creating serious demand among the moron public just like proprietary hops do. Try and find a craft beer that isnt made with proprietary hops that we average people arent allowed to grow.
And I've had GMO pot... not gonna lie it was devastatingly strong. Pink kush triploid that was consistently testing in the 30-35% cannabinoid range. Shit would sit you right down.. Mind you that was a GMO developed on the black market.. lol
How was the plant GMO? What was the inserted gene, and who did the gene insertion?
So people just open dispensary’s without any paperwork? That’s great.Equally bad if not worse in Canada. I'm honestly surprised at what is going on, there are black market dispensaries everywhere still even though it's illegal and the minimum sentences for violation of the cannabis act are potentially life changing. It's being allowed to go on for some reason and that makes me very suspicious. I wouldnt doubt if they are letting it happen in the open to gather intelligence and evidence before really cracking down. Just having a medical prescription is a risk these days in my mind, but I'm not doing this to make money. My grow is insanely small compared to some of the well known operations in my neighborhood. I'm am a very small fry and I have a legitimate medical reason to provide pot for myself so i dont see myself being a target, but you never know how Law enforcement will use their power... All it takes is one cop with a bad attitude.
Lol do you seriously think I know who bred it?
GMO doesnt have to mean a gene is inserted, it means the genetics are modified. In the case of the pink kush that was going around the lower mainland BC it was a tetraploid or triploid variety meaning it has either 3 or 4 sets of chromosomes instead of 2 like a regular plant. I have no idea how it was produced originally from a scientific perspective but having grown it, I can verify it was a freaky mutant. It didnt do so well after about 5-6 generations of cuttings though for some reason and became a real pita to grow. Havent seen it since about 2012 or so.
google polyploidy.
Actually GMO does mean a gene has to be inserted or manipulated in a controlled environment, otherwise it is just breeding. Mutations are 100% natural, they are not due to genetic modification. Diploid and polyploid features are just mutations not genetic alterations. Solar radiation is constantly causing mutations in our cells, yet I doubt you would say you are a GMO. It is far more likely you simply have experienced a plant that had a completely natural genetic mutation that a grower thought was interesting rather than a true GMO plant.
Well you clearly know more about GMOs than I do... you will have to forgive me, I stand corrected. The guy who gave me the cut said it was a GMO and the seeds of the breeding parents had been treated with a chemical to modify the chromosomes. I guess I dont know enough about the technical definition of GMO's to comment about it..
Well you clearly know more about GMOs than I do... you will have to forgive me, I stand corrected. The guy who gave me the cut said it was a GMO and the seeds of the breeding parents had been treated with a chemical to modify the chromosomes. I guess I dont know enough about the technical definition of GMO's to comment about it..
Was it colchene (sp?). Thats the polyploid making chemical that supposedly made master kush (hi-rise).
I assure you I have never doubted your intelligence or ability to speak on any topic; thus why I began with questions about the history of the plant you had grown. In none of your previous responses did you disclose the parent plants were treated in any manner. That small piece of information makes a world of difference in this conversation. I am now truly intrigued by this plant you had, polyploidy is not an uncommon trait in plants so why treat a plant to simply force a natural mutation? I wonder if polyploidy was a side effect of treating the chromosomes to do something else that made it more potent. I also wonder what it was treated with. If we treat our plants with colloidal silver to alter an expression of the genes it already posses, make a female plant produce male flowers, is that GMO cannabis? Personally I would tend to think not, but a chemical was applied that did alter the chromosomes. Seeing as you know of attempts to clone the plant, I can only assume you tried yourself, and they weren’t very stable I wonder if the trait would have been passed on in breeding. If so, then the gene was permanently altered but made the plant difficult to keep alive through cloning.
That's the stuff.
So people just open dispensary’s without any paperwork? That’s great.
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