If you could start your own pot farm tomorrow, would you?

[MrPeabody]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

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[markids77]

No deal. Somebody at the Federal level is likely to get a wild hair strung and have ATF declare pot a machine gun. Then all growers would have to turn their crops and land in to the Fed or destroy it. I would choose the smoking crater option if I were foolish enough to start farming now.

[Sea Six]

Originally Posted by MrPeabody

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[04 commemorative]

So if the Feds say it is illegal .....why can you buy stocks in the companies

[Millenium Vette]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

So if the Feds say it is illegal .....why can you buy stocks in the companies

Because they let you......

[Cybercowboy]

Originally Posted by MrPeabody

What do you think the prospects are for your state to legalize recreational use? That's when the business really explodes, if it's done right.

I think within the next five years it will be done here. Missouri is much more OK with this sort of stuff than other surrounding states like Oklahoma or Kansas. Arkansas still has dry counties I think, so who knows about them.

Actually I truly think that the feds will reschedule marijuana before the next presidential election.

[Rob]

I only need a farm big enough for 2-3 plants.

[Cybercowboy]

Originally Posted by Dixievet

I only need a farm big enough for 2-3 plants.

For personal use that would be plenty. As a young person the idea of being able to grow, legally, a few plants was but a dream. It's such a great thing to grow, and so easy. The fact that it's illegal is infuriating on a few different levels. As you know, just watch a few videos of the people who are helped so much by this plant.

[MrPeabody]

And then shit like this happens:


https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/...a-13487748.php

[Antfarmer2]

Originally Posted by MrPeabody

And then shit like this happens:


https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/...a-13487748.php

This will help the other growers in the places that they were dumping their shit.

[Cybercowboy]

Originally Posted by MrPeabody

And then shit like this happens:


https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/...a-13487748.php

Leave it to California to make the regulatory and oversight and tax environment so intrusive and overbearing that the only way to make money at growing weed is to cheat.

[Jobaka]

Originally Posted by Cybercowboy

Leave it to California to make the regulatory and oversight and tax environment so intrusive and overbearing that the only way to make money at growing weed is to cheat.

That would never happen anywhere else.

[MrPeabody]

This is why the biggest lobby against legalized marijuana is the people who have already been growing it for decades. That's why even with a liberal state legislature, the only way to pass legalization was by ballot initiative. We have never had a governor, including Jerry Brown, who was for legalization of any kind.

Maybe we can use the ballot initiative to bring sensible statewide uniform regulation to the industry. The state and local governments are determined to not do so.

[MrPeabody]

Here's an article that outlines that the legal pot industry can't compete with the black market because of the taxes:

http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php/...-tax-reduction