How To Grow Pot Safely

I’m in favor of legalizing the Demon Weed, even though I haven’t partaken of it in many, many years, now. (Put it this way…I’m way past the statute of limitations.) And, as I am not planning on running for office, let me just say…I inhaled. Quite a bit.

This article, however, has given me a new reason to be pro-legalization…it’ll make the local paper so much more interesting.

Best top ten ever is Ricky Gervais reading from an actual AIDS prevention brochure on safe sex alternatives. Link.

Use LED lights. They consume only a margin of the wattage of other lights with no detectable heat to IR devices. you can grow a dozen plants on a 90 watt set of LED lights. plant growth is usually 12 inches/month until flowering stage.

Victory gardens!

LED plant lights are horrifyingly expensive, at least the sites I’ve found are.

notgonnahappen. Even though there are some compelling arguments being made as to how it would reduce crime (and not just from stoners who claim they’d totally stop stealing shit if they could get baked more cheaply), fill the coffers and be the smart and right thing to do, Sir Change-A-Lot doesn’t thing legalizing pot is “the right strategy” for America. While sniggering at those who would propose to do so, he can’t explain why, of course, but I just don’t see him getting behind a Thousand Points of Growlight plan any time soon.

Michelle’s not putting in any hemp at the WH, is she? Now, that would be old school. Washington and Jefferson would be so proud.

I’d be pleased if he just winked at personal possession and consumption. It is clear to me that an adult approach to pot is further away than it was twenty years ago.

Allegedly, I’m sure…

YOU HAVE NO PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THIS.

REPEAT THAT SENTENCE AND THE DEA MAY NOT ARRIVE!

well, the plan on the website says “spices”

but we all know what the best spice is.

Hope she makes the Secret Service help at harvest time…

It’s not a spice. It’s an herb.

Oh, wow, this post is makin’ me hungry.

Shouldn’t Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck be supporting this on their shows every night? I mean, if we buy homegrown ‘Murican pot, then we don’t have to buy from the Mexo-Fascist-Communists from south of the border, thus promoting the imminent collapse of All Brown Societies and the following locust like invasion and take over of the U S of Fucking A. Perhaps we don’t have time since both are telling me it’s just a matter of days until this happens. And I would like to be the first to welcome our new dark overlords!

Still no post about Annal T-house, the Commenter, His Wife and Her Lover?

Please, TBogg, release the snark hounds with bees in their mouths.

The Mexo-commie-druglords have known for years that there’s less risk involved if they send their serfs to the U.S. and grow the stuff here in our national partks and on other federally owned lands. With the Park Service cut back to the bare bones, the last thing they have time for is patrolling the hinterlands for pot plants.

Personally, I LOVE the idea that the cops can now raid your home based on nothing more than your electric bill. I’ve heard stories of people having their doors kicked in two weeks after installing central air conditioning. Mom and dad carted off to the hooscow and the kids turned over to chid protective services until the investigation is complete. Tens of thousands of dollars later and you don’t even get an apology. (But you do wind up on the local gendarme’s shit list for bothering to complain.)

America! Smell the freedom!

A-yep. But the War on Some Drugs must never be questioned. I hear they’re even planning on shutting down Amsterdam’s dope shops because they’re sick of the foreign stoners showing up and acting like idiots on the streets.

And, if I recall correctly, the cops can confiscate *everything* on a property — even stuff clearly unrelated to a drug operation that, you know, may or may not be there — and are not particularly obliged to return or refund anything, even when the raid is found entirely unwarranted. Eventually, The Law then sells the goodies and makes away like, well, a bandit. Good times, good times! That whole Fourth Amendment thing was just a crock for crooks, anyway, right? Right?

If it’s ever legalized, it might be a result of the confluence of economic need and border politics. Hmmm.

I wonder if they’ll list ten things that dope users need to know: pass the dutchie on the left-hand side, don’t bogart that joint, buy your Ben & Jerry’s before you spark up, etc. Or, ah, so Cheech & Chong tell me.

Living as I do in an area known for the quality and quantity of marijuana grown and consumed, legalization is on its way by sheer momentum.

I don’t buy for one minute that the root of Mexico’s drug cartel problems are related to marijuana, although Ruthie nailed the growing operations that are found regularly in our local national forests run by foreign interests.

Marijuana is a bulky, relatively cheap drug product to buy ($2,500 per pound on average, resold back East for either double or triple that amount) that is expensive and time-consuming to produce.

Meth, on the other hand, is, along with coke, still the moneymaker (and don’t forget the horse, one of out of every 10 busts or so up here involve someone in possession of heroin, in addition to weed and meth) and I would hazard a guess the violence we see has a lot more to do with moving the much more profitable speed and coke.

That being said, I find one of the lowest forms of marijuana grower to be the asshole who rents a property and then proceeds to play electrician and re-wire the place, leading to frequent fires. If it’s not fire, they just ruin, absolutely and sometimes irreparably, someone else’s property.

not really, they cost $150 for a 45 watts set. so do your own calculation for 12 hours a day on for energy consumption versus fluroscent lighting over 4-5 months of growing. you save a lot of money with LEDs over that time and do not raise suspicion due to energy consumption or expose yourself to snooping cops that use IR cameras to detect heat sources.

the point is to grow dope, but under the radar

another know-it-all, gryphon? you must be a fucking adolescent.

i live in a state with medical marijuana legislation, and am able to grow my own dope…..legally. i tried LEDs as an experiment and found it better for energy consumption than regular flourescent lights and i did not have to use an exhaust fan to reduce the heat of the flourescent lights. the seeds i started at christmas are now four feet tall and started budding in february.

as to the DEA, how about reading up on current events?

“Medical Marijuana: Attorney General Holder Sends Another Signal — No DEA Busts Unless You Violate State Law.”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chro…..uana_raids

Hey, man, mellow out, ‘kay?

Folks, just give it 10-15 years. It’ll be legal in most places by then. The millenial generation (folks born since 1978) heavily favors legalization, even the ones who don’t smoke. The most heavily opposed folks are dying off and being replaced by folks who see the absurdity of illegal weed while there’s legal alcohol and tobacco.

I’d send this to a friend in the “business,” but I think tip #11 would be not to e-mail pot growing tips to people who are growing.

Naturally, here in Texas we’d use the reefer tax to liberate ourselves from the backbreaking, unconstitutional state income tax. Sure, it’s at 0% for now- but that doesn’t mean we’re not on Nobama’s slip n’ slide to socialism. If lottery sales don’t pick up, we’re gonna give up on this whole free public education experiment thing, and not just for the Mexicans, I’m talkin’ about for girls too!

Tbogg, did you send your minions to Portugal? Nickleback FAIL

Bob was an excellent horticulturist (he learned in prison). He grew magnificent indoor sinsemilla plants. He was proud of his work. One night, to impress a young lady, Bob showed her his grow room. She was duly impressed.

The next night as Bob was sitting around the house getting high watching the tube, some thugs came to the door, broke the door in. Shot Bob in the thigh with a rifle. Bob’s roommate ran to his bedroom and slammed the door closed. The armed thug fired a shot thru the door. The bullet entered the young man’s chest missing all vital organs and missing his spine. So lucky.

The thugs chopped down all the plants, hauled them out the door, loaded them into a van and drove away.

Bob was arrested and convicted mostly because the roommate sang like a canary. Bob, wearing a tourniquet on his wounded thigh, had dumped all the stumpy evidence into a nearbly overgrown vacant lot.

Bob went back to prison for two years. He waited 15 years to try to grow more weed. He got busted again. Probation this time.

humboldtblue,

Speaking of dope growers wrecking houses, you may want to take a look at this video (via). Love the guy’s deadpan narration. BTW, this is down near where Tbogg lives.