Electric costs: One of the many costs of production in cannabis cultivation is power. Here in Alaska we pay a monopoly over .20 per kilowatt hour. Even for a small scale grow electrical costs can be astronomical!
Water: Many of you know the stories of the gold rush that came through Alaska. Part of the old school mining styles required the use of arsenic to seperate gold from other rocks and soils. This arsenic has leached into the ground water and is unfit for human use. Many areas around alaska you have to haul water to your property that is purchased from a well source. This is again much more expensive than paying for city water and the quality is not that great.
Temperature: out temperatures range from 100 in the summer to -60 in the winter. Yes. -60. You ever tried to take a pee at -60. Enough said.
Land: sure you think that alaska has all this wonderful land, and that's kind of true, however we have ice layers that freeze and thaw each year which case the land to heave up and down ripping apart your concrete foundations and non floating windows. Seriously I've seen windows shatter due to this.
More to come. Like I said I just want people to have realistic expectations, this isn't summer camp.