I shouldn't get myself wound up but... :fighting0087:
Have you all heard that
Advanced Nutrients is marketing their new Kush specific bloom additive for the med growers only? Imho, AN has taken it upon themselves to make a distinction, delineate and discriminate between recreational and medical marijuana use... I hardly even know where to begin… What a crock of guano!
Look... we ALL know what's going on here with medical pot. I've smoked grass for about 35 years and there's not a more fervent believer than myself in the multitude of uses for this magnificent plant. I'm more than thrilled that through medical use marijuana has found an in-road to public acceptance and pseudo "legal" status that is enjoyed in 13 states presently despite the lack of any action on a national level. I especially appreciate the freedoms gained by the Compassionate Use Act (Prop 215) on my frequent business trips to La La. But this
Advanced Nutrients move is total B.S.
Marijuana is more than capable at helping with a host of illnesses. As Bob Marley once said: "Herb is the healing of ALL nations!" Aside from physical relief provided I think mental depression and stress in our world could be dealt with much better if the public and medical profession embraced this herb. But no, the pharmaceutical industry makes certain that the endless prescriptions for a litany of pills goes on and on and on.
Doing this cute marketing maneuver is like
Advanced Nutrients saying that casual users are not entitled to the same quality or strength of marijuana or some special medicinal strength level achieved with this new product... GIVE ME A BREAK! Screw
Advanced Nutrients. I know they make a pretty solid product. Is it expensive? Yes... but it does work well. I used the whole 2+ lineup in my previous grow location when I had a partner who worked at a grow shop and we got everything at cost... and I grew with their Iguana + full organic nute calc lineup after that when it started coming out of my own pocket because of results. Power to AN for having the moxy to call a duck a frickin' duck BUT due to Advanced Nutrient's marketing plan as a marijuana specific product, today there's no longer an AN Grow Forum and there's not a local store carrying it anymore. The political stigma was just too much. I easily made the choice to go with one of the many capable competing lines of nutrients out there.. I still have a few Advanced Items...
Voodoo Juice and Overdrive and some odds and ends but this will be the last of AN for me if they start discriminating against the casual user/grower. I'm not against special consideration to the medical growers but not if it means denying casual growers products. I know if only a portion of all the casual growers feel as I do it's going to hurt
Advanced Nutrients in the pocket.
Right now, just about anybody with an "ailment" in Cali can grab a local entertainment paper, take a look at the ads for doctors who specializes in "medical marijuana" practices, make an appt. and get a med ID card faster than I can arrange for my next sack out here in the real world. Yipee! It's almost impossible to fail at getting a card from what I understand... Does ANYBODY here know someone who wanted a med mj card that has been refused? I sure don't... It seems like if you have the doctor's 'fee' you're in, wink, wink... I COMPLETELY support all Cannabis use but a little voice inside me says there is a good chance that it's only a matter of time until the inevitable swing from the left to the right will happen in the U.S. of A. and BC won't be the target this time. This country is much too polarized for me to logically think otherwise. For crying out loud, GW Bush was elected TWICE! Sure, the genie's out of the bottle and I don't think she'll ever be able to be stuffed back in... completely! But... as soon as a few "scientific findings" about pot being "hazardous to your health" or "cancer causing" etc..., true or not, and the right will push and they're more than likely going to really tighten up requirements and the whole scene out there in a bad way. We hear it from the AMA (American Medical Association) already...
I hope this never happens but with things free wheeling out there you just gotta wonder. I know how easy it was for me to get my med ID card and I have to pinch myself everytime I go into a dispensary. I still look for the tram to hop on out in the streets... cuz I swear I'm in Amsterdam! If AN follows through with this type of marketing they'll soon see where their bread is buttered... If they do stuff like this I won't support them. Oh, snap! I forgot that
Advanced Nutrients' entire mission is for advancing medical marijuana... Yeah... Right!
Medical marijuana is great but don't throw the rest of us under the bus because of some legal status that we all faced only a short time ago. You've got your dispensaries and collectives and we still got Bob's cousin Jimmy who's gonna meet me at McDonald's at 7 for a sack. And Johnny Lawdog will probably come rolling through the parking lot for a Big Mac just to make me sweat a bit. Most of us are out here in the real world. I love some aspects of So Cal life and the acceptance of med mj is at the top of the list. I've lived and worked out there off and on for years. But other than med mj... I only miss a few key friends and my In-n-Out Double Doubles!
What do you think of their
Kushie Kush marketing?
Peace!:character0103:
