tyler.durden
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Love this article from Marc Emery, it was a major influence on my decision to quit the corporate world and grow and sell weed...
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2005/05/03/4330
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Marijuana makes people feel good but doesn’t kill them or hook them as do legal drugs like alcohol, pharmaceuticals, and tobacco. When people experience marijuana’s gentle pleasures, they realize the government is telling lies about marijuana. They realize something they might not have realized before: that the government unjustly prohibits things that are blessings. They realize the government is corrupt, and needs to be changed. These realizations spur righteous anger, leading to rebellion.
Rebellion unfulfilled is a rat gnawing at the soul. People who see pot as a blessing and the government’s war on pot as a curse want to fight the government’s war on marijuana. They want to take action against prohibition.
Taking action against marijuana prohibition means different things to different people. For some, it only means voting against drug war politicians. For others, it means participating in politics as a marijuana proponent. Filing lawsuits, staging protests, arguing for marijuana in public meetings and the media- all these are useful actions. However, there are other actions that fight prohibition in a unique, powerful way. One of these is to use marijuana. Another is to grow and distribute it. Ultimately, the growing and providing of marijuana are the most effective ways of overcoming prohibition.
... If people are to use marijuana, marijuana must be grown and distributed. The marijuana grower/distributor is a revolutionary, defying the government by providing the world with a forbidden plant that enlightens and heals.
It’s well worth it
If you don’t have your own secure indoor or outdoor space in which to plant marijuana, find somebody else’s outdoor place and put in a few plants that you can safely get to for watering and other maintenance chores.
If you live near golf courses, estates, deserts, lakes, rivers, forests, parks, vacant lots, and similarly green areas, those are nice places for clandestine, off-site pot growing.
Sure, you might lose your plants to pests, varmints, rip-offs, or police. If you grow from seed, you’ll spend less than $200 and a few hours of labor on the project. You can afford to lose that. You can afford that investment risk. If you grow plants well and they make it to harvest, you can yield an average of one to six ounces of dried bud per plant. How much is that worth?
You get more than homegrown bud, however. You get farming knowledge. When the economic grid collapses and people are literally starving for fresh fruits and veggies, you’ll be using botany experience gained growing marijuana to grow your own food, fiber, medicine.
When you grow cannabis, you learn how to take care of a non-human life form. You learn about plant sexuality. You learn about watering, fertilizing, trimming, pest control, and goal orientation. You learn about self-sufficiency. There are few feelings so kind as the reward of sharing a joint or bowl of your personally grown herb with friends.
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, right now is your outdoor growing season. In most areas, you could have been growing outdoors starting mid-March. From now until June 22, your plants will increase in height. During late June and July they will add girth and foliage. In August and September they will flower and ripen so you can harvest by October.
No matter where you live, if you have a closet, an empty refrigerator, a small room, an outhouse, a basement, a garage, an abandoned mini-van ? anywhere that has electricity, space, and privacy ? you can grow pot.
You can grow one plant, or 1,000, depending on your infrastructure and goals. The bottom line is that everyone can grow marijuana if they really want to. And if everyone grows marijuana, prohibition will die.
Let me say it again: You CAN grow marijuana, right now, no matter where you are, no matter how little gardening experience you have...
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2005/05/03/4330
Excerpt -
Marijuana makes people feel good but doesn’t kill them or hook them as do legal drugs like alcohol, pharmaceuticals, and tobacco. When people experience marijuana’s gentle pleasures, they realize the government is telling lies about marijuana. They realize something they might not have realized before: that the government unjustly prohibits things that are blessings. They realize the government is corrupt, and needs to be changed. These realizations spur righteous anger, leading to rebellion.
Rebellion unfulfilled is a rat gnawing at the soul. People who see pot as a blessing and the government’s war on pot as a curse want to fight the government’s war on marijuana. They want to take action against prohibition.
Taking action against marijuana prohibition means different things to different people. For some, it only means voting against drug war politicians. For others, it means participating in politics as a marijuana proponent. Filing lawsuits, staging protests, arguing for marijuana in public meetings and the media- all these are useful actions. However, there are other actions that fight prohibition in a unique, powerful way. One of these is to use marijuana. Another is to grow and distribute it. Ultimately, the growing and providing of marijuana are the most effective ways of overcoming prohibition.
... If people are to use marijuana, marijuana must be grown and distributed. The marijuana grower/distributor is a revolutionary, defying the government by providing the world with a forbidden plant that enlightens and heals.
It’s well worth it
If you don’t have your own secure indoor or outdoor space in which to plant marijuana, find somebody else’s outdoor place and put in a few plants that you can safely get to for watering and other maintenance chores.
If you live near golf courses, estates, deserts, lakes, rivers, forests, parks, vacant lots, and similarly green areas, those are nice places for clandestine, off-site pot growing.
Sure, you might lose your plants to pests, varmints, rip-offs, or police. If you grow from seed, you’ll spend less than $200 and a few hours of labor on the project. You can afford to lose that. You can afford that investment risk. If you grow plants well and they make it to harvest, you can yield an average of one to six ounces of dried bud per plant. How much is that worth?
You get more than homegrown bud, however. You get farming knowledge. When the economic grid collapses and people are literally starving for fresh fruits and veggies, you’ll be using botany experience gained growing marijuana to grow your own food, fiber, medicine.
When you grow cannabis, you learn how to take care of a non-human life form. You learn about plant sexuality. You learn about watering, fertilizing, trimming, pest control, and goal orientation. You learn about self-sufficiency. There are few feelings so kind as the reward of sharing a joint or bowl of your personally grown herb with friends.
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, right now is your outdoor growing season. In most areas, you could have been growing outdoors starting mid-March. From now until June 22, your plants will increase in height. During late June and July they will add girth and foliage. In August and September they will flower and ripen so you can harvest by October.
No matter where you live, if you have a closet, an empty refrigerator, a small room, an outhouse, a basement, a garage, an abandoned mini-van ? anywhere that has electricity, space, and privacy ? you can grow pot.
You can grow one plant, or 1,000, depending on your infrastructure and goals. The bottom line is that everyone can grow marijuana if they really want to. And if everyone grows marijuana, prohibition will die.
Let me say it again: You CAN grow marijuana, right now, no matter where you are, no matter how little gardening experience you have...
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