U.S. cannabis shoppers face a market flush with illegal weed

[Tesorodeoro]

They have over-run the ability -strike that - the funding of our local government and apparently the ability of the Federal Government. The Hmong and Chinese cartels have invested in attorneys in order flip the laws protecting Americans against Americans. It’s very effective and disgusting. It also reduces the number of operations carried out to stop them.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

The “illegal farms” in southern Oregon are pretty tame compared to what’s been going on in Northern California.

 

[beepbleep]

Carbofuran?
Have you drank a tin cup of water containing organophosphates? Look em up. That plant magically absorbs and stores chemicals. What is carbofuran used for and why would you add it to the water (stored in the cistern)? What would the point be? How much would need to be packed in to “treat” 80,000 plants?

I knew there would be excuses. “Reefer Madness” PLEASE. The only madness is old hippies ignorantly defending cartel grows on public national forests. Sorry. I meant that as in older folks who’s knowledge is limited to how it used to be and how they have grown. The cartels don’t do it the same way.

“It’s just a plant” Uh ok, I’ll overlook the bullshit that’s going on here that is not a plant.

I’ve enjoyed a few times. I don’t have a chip on my shoulder other than because of the foreign nationals ruining MY land.

Sounds like you have a people problem. Clean that up first.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Sounds like you have a people problem. Clean that up first.

Ya we definitely have a people problem.

 

[Tnmountains]

It will never be legal in Tennessee in any form. Yet you smell it every where.

 

[Wjm420]

When I was younger all we had was illegal Wred.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

All I can say is beware what your putting in your body. It’s not all simply a “natural plant”. It can have chemicals that affect your nervous system if it came from cartel grows.

 

[DizzyDigger]

All I can say is beware what your putting in your body. It’s not all simply a “natural plant”. It can have chemicals that affect your nervous system if it came from cartel grows.

Can't speak for other states, but I do know that Washington has set some fairly strict standards, and every crop must be tested and approved prior to packaging. They also do periodic checks of bud sold at retail outlets.

Would it be possible to circumvent the testing process? Can't say for sure. Those that want to will usually find a way, but it would be at a huge risk to the packager.

As for carbofuran, which I believe they would have used to control fungus gnats, is illegal and unavailable in the US. Gnatrol, a natural biological larvicide, is more effective and 100% safe to use. If the indoor growers do their job right, they shouldn't have any pests to deal with. Outside is a whole different can of worms.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Can't speak for other states, but I do know that Washington has set some fairly strict standards, and every crop must be tested and approved prior to packaging. They also do periodic checks of bud sold at retail outlets.

Would it be possible to circumvent the testing process? Can't say for sure. Those that want to will usually find a way, but it would be at a huge risk to the packager.

As for carbofuran, which I believe they would have used to control fungus gnats, is illegal and unavailable in the US. Gnatrol, a natural biological larvicide, is more effective and 100% safe to use. If the indoor growers do their job right, they shouldn't have any pests to deal with. Outside is a whole different can of worms.

I just know what I’ve walked through and it’s a massive scale.

People have told me that Mexican bud is trash. I suspect much of it is made into honey oil so people can covertly use (high schoolers can vape it without anyone suspecting). Not sure if these chemicals cook off during that process. It’s not anywhere near”natural” by the time it hits retail packaging.

There are tweakers that scrape pine resin off of pine trees and they somehow burn it in a glass pipe with the honey oil. It’s funny to see them along the road pretending to check their tire. As soon as you drive by you can see them rush up to the trunk and start scraping pitch off the wounds they have inflicted in order to produce pitch.

Crazy world. I would certainly not want to inhale pine resin into my lungs! “All natural” though.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Can't speak for other states, but I do know that Washington has set some fairly strict standards, and every crop must be tested and approved prior to packaging. They also do periodic checks of bud sold at retail outlets.

Would it be possible to circumvent the testing process? Can't say for sure. Those that want to will usually find a way, but it would be at a huge risk to the packager.

As for carbofuran, which I believe they would have used to control fungus gnats, is illegal and unavailable in the US. Gnatrol, a natural biological larvicide, is more effective and 100% safe to use. If the indoor growers do their job right, they shouldn't have any pests to deal with. Outside is a whole different can of worms.

Yep! We get tested quite a bit. Our plants are organic and stricter testing is required. Dispensaries get all our product and they check them out also.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Locally Grown. ahh yes, life is grand!

 

[WoodsDigger]

The shops up here in Ontario pop up like weeds. The big producers went to the stock market. Hedge funds dumped millions in, and it was a pump and dump scheme.

Large producers couldn't compete with small producers that are actually big producers in another forest.

The reservations are one big pot shop. They don't charge tax on pot or gas.
Basically the law enforcement stays away from the reservation because they'll block the railways. 🤣

The government run stores loose money, the grey/shadow run shops seem to survive.

Medical exemption 150 plants a yr.
Everyone else 4 plants a year.

Old time growers don't grow for sale as the competition is too high, and the market is flooded.

Knowing many that have taken it up since it became legal. Many now plant their ass in the chair and do little as possible in life now.
But they claim life is good 👍

Holy crap Awkwesasne Res on my side has about 40 dispenserarys. It's odd place to drive through. Many residences just growing it right out there front door .

 

[pepperj]

Holy crap Awkwesasne Res on my side has about 40 dispenserarys. It's odd place to drive through. Many residences just growing it right out there front door .

Here we are allowed 4 plants per fire # . (Civic address) Seriously though it's not enforced unless they've got the person on some other charge.
The do not touch a status Indian, really is a well known secret.
It seems that the waterways around the Res. Is probably the best smuggling routes between countries.

 

[WoodsDigger]

Here we are allowed 4 plants per fire # . (Civic address) Seriously though it's not enforced unless they've got the person on some other charge.
The do not touch a status Indian, really is a well known secret.
It seems that the waterways around the Res. Is probably the best smuggling routes between countries.

Yes sir, been following the news for years. My dad used to live in Chateaugay NY , half mile from border, immigrants sneaking through woods and farm fields on game cameras. At the end he kept his Python in the right hand side of his wheelchair.

 

[UnderMiner]

my personal observation ever since they legalized the sale of "medical" marijuana in Oklahoma is that the whole thing has been a mistake.

Almost immediately, the Chinese started buying up lots of land around the state, offering people far more than market value for their land. An "offer they can't refuse" more or less. They bought up several pieces of land around the county where I live. Their grow operations have resulted in several arrests being made of Chinese nationals growing without a valid license. I personally believe their government placed them here to take advantage of our laws in order to funnel huge amounts of money back to the Chinese government. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Personally, I believe it's a national security threat.

From what I can see and people I've talked to, the "medical card" licensing procedure is a joke. Apparently it's not much more than telling a "doctor" that you have such and such ailment, hand him some money, and you get a card. It is amazing to me how many people I see in their early 20's who have these "ailments". They seem to have little desire to work, and seem to spend most of their actual cash on "medical" marijuana and tattoos while the taxpayers provide them with groceries and housing assistance.

The state of Oklahoma has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue from this venture, yet I've seen nothing improve and the only real result I have seen is the continued decay of society.

Remember the Opium Wars. They teach that history in Chinese schools, not so much in the West if at all. The synopsis of that history is you can control a population by flooding it with cheap drugs.