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With legalization on the ballot this fall, Humboldt County’s growers and business people are thinking about how to meet the possible challenges. This week’s North Coast Journal contains an article I wrote about one way to deal with the coming financial challenges.
The AP report has pitted smokers against their erstwhile friends–the growers. While there is definitely some opposition to legalization from SOME cannabis producers (including those in the dispensaries), there is also a great deal of support. However, growers and businesses here in Humboldt have a lot to be concerned about. They need to reach out to consumers and urge that supporting their cause will ultimately be good for the smoker as well as the producer. Hand manicured, home grown, organic pot will be tastier, healthier and a better experience for the person who buys it if a corporation hasn’t created a bland mass produced product. Just as homegrown, heirloom tomatoes are better than the watery red cardboard that can be purchased at Safeway so too will Humboldt Homegrown and Emerald Kush be better than a souless, flavorless corporate bud.
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just wanted to let you know that i love your posts ! thx, from santa cruz. ca.
Thank you.
just wanted to let you know that i love your posts ! thx, from santa cruz. ca.
Thank you.
but will it become another industry where the small grower can’t compete with mass production?
That is the $64,000, 000,000 question!
but will it become another industry where the small grower can’t compete with mass production?
That is the $64,000, 000,000 question!
Check out Nimbin in Australia !
I added a link to your comment. I think folks will enjoy seeing Humboldt with an Australian slant.
Check out Nimbin in Australia !
I added a link to your comment. I think folks will enjoy seeing Humboldt with an Australian slant.
Great NCJ article Kym.
Great NCJ article Kym.
Hi Kym,
You do such good positive work I thought I’d throw a little extra help into the ring. The link below is to an article on the basics of a business plan to create a 1000 grower marijuana coop that is designed to compete in the legalized marijuana scenario. It is just a rough guide for the basic structures that might be necessary and can be hopefully be used to build viable business plans off of.
Hope it helps calm the fears and get us prepared for the inevitable.
http://www.humboldtliving.com/articles.php?article_id=87
talk care.
nicholas
Nicholas, that was a fun read though I don’t think all the math works out correctly but it is a great basis for a conversation and I recommend that everybody concerned with marijuana and Humboldt (or the greater Emerald Triangle) check it out.
% THC is a false measurement. It is only useful in USDOJ propaganda.
Say SWIM grows mountain sativa at very high altitude in freezing ass cold. Yield is low and resin is low. %THC can reach 30%.
Say another SWIM grows indica in the hot valley. Yield is high, resin is high, %THC is around 5%.
Which bud is stronger: barely any trichomes mountain peak fluff bud or some bush indica? Both are good…
I hope you see now why %THC is a useless figure unless all other variables are equal. Seed companies only use this as a marketing technique, there is nothing qualitative about it.
Nobody trusts no-name organic inspection. If they did, there would be thousands of organic inspection seals.
And organic? How many mites/lbs counts as mite “free?”
No kryovac? How do you keep the 13% moisture and 20% THC in a glass jar?
Year like Mendo Purps being that light falling on the last male (most strain history is fiction).
Nice idea, but it could use less rules.
Hi Kym,
You do such good positive work I thought I’d throw a little extra help into the ring. The link below is to an article on the basics of a business plan to create a 1000 grower marijuana coop that is designed to compete in the legalized marijuana scenario. It is just a rough guide for the basic structures that might be necessary and can be hopefully be used to build viable business plans off of.
Hope it helps calm the fears and get us prepared for the inevitable.
http://www.humboldtliving.com/articles.php?article_id=87
talk care.
nicholas
Nicholas, that was a fun read though I don’t think all the math works out correctly but it is a great basis for a conversation and I recommend that everybody concerned with marijuana and Humboldt (or the greater Emerald Triangle) check it out.
% THC is a false measurement. It is only useful in USDOJ propaganda.
Say SWIM grows mountain sativa at very high altitude in freezing ass cold. Yield is low and resin is low. %THC can reach 30%.
Say another SWIM grows indica in the hot valley. Yield is high, resin is high, %THC is around 5%.
Which bud is stronger: barely any trichomes mountain peak fluff bud or some bush indica? Both are good…
I hope you see now why %THC is a useless figure unless all other variables are equal. Seed companies only use this as a marketing technique, there is nothing qualitative about it.
Nobody trusts no-name organic inspection. If they did, there would be thousands of organic inspection seals.
And organic? How many mites/lbs counts as mite “free?”
No kryovac? How do you keep the 13% moisture and 20% THC in a glass jar?
Year like Mendo Purps being that light falling on the last male (most strain history is fiction).
Nice idea, but it could use less rules.
Mr. Nice,
A highly respected breeder/grower once told me. “Say they want OG Kush and you have White Widow–tell them its Kush. Most people have no idea!” His pot is universally revered as both prolific and a great smoke but hearing about his “rigorous breeding and advertising standards” left me somewhat dismayed.
Mr. Nice,
A highly respected breeder/grower once told me. “Say they want OG Kush and you have White Widow–tell them its Kush. Most people have no idea!” His pot is universally revered as both prolific and a great smoke but hearing about his “rigorous breeding and advertising standards” left me somewhat dismayed.