Drying and curing is very difficult to do in a secretive way. Otherwise just hang the plant upside-down in the kitchen, like any other herb. Few days later, bag it up. It’s not like tobacco at all, marijuana smokes fine straight off the vine.
But it stinks to high heaven … like probably cause at the sidewalk stink.
This is an interesting series of pictures from a person who bought legal pot on the first day: What you get when you buy legally in Colorado - Album on Imgur
Close- it’s sinsemilla.
Edit: cite
Both spellings are accepted. sensimilla - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Simul-cite!
Yeah , I saw that about both spellings after I posted.
Only currently, and it’s not really growing themselves. It’s more like a tiered organization where one grower is allowed to only sell to one shop. But sometime later this year that requirement will be dismantled and recreational dispensaries will be able to buy from any licensed growers.
Sour Diesel is pretty good stuff.
Whoever named it must be a marketing genius (total sarcasm here). It sounds like one of those joke ale names, like Fat Tire.
One of my Fundamentalist relatives was bemoaning the new marriage and pot laws. I told her Colorado was simply following Leviticus to the letter: “… if a man lies with another man, they shall be stoned.”
They were probably doing some work on quality control when it was named.
ouch!
Awesome.
Do you have a cite for how much police pull in from MJ drug busts?
Not marijuana specifically offhand, but I found a total for the sum total of siezed assets in this NPR story, which has a lot of very helpful background information. The relevant figures:
This is only partially true. Like everything else, be it cattle or petunias, what you need to get good results is good gene stock. Start with good genes of a potent stock and you get potent weed. Not a lot different from growing tomatoes.
Most of the pot grown now is from very high powered strains that have been cross-bred and developed for certain characteristics. It isn’t in the gardening, it is in the genes. You can produce a 12 foot tall plant of poor quality weed and treat it with loving care, and all you get is a huge Christmas tree and a lot of poor quality product. People who remember smoking a joint in college will be unable to even operate the TV remove after 3 or 4 hits of the current product.
On a different note, and I am more familiar with the up-coming Washington laws, is that each stage of production and sale must be by separate entities.
The grower cannot be the processor, the processor cannot be the retailer. There are three separate businesses involved; grower, trimmer/processor, and the final retail seller, and none of these can be the same business. And there is a tracking system that follows the plant through the process, like is required with other agricultural products, so that if there is a quality or health issue it can be traced back to the point of origin. What this 3 stage operation does is allow for taxation at each exchange of product. When the grower sells to the trimmer, tax, trimmer to retailer, tax, retailer to end user, tax. So the initial costs must be keep low enough that the end product sold to the customer is still at a reasonable cost, while providing the tax income to the state.
Across the river in Oregon I know a couple of former illegal growers that have just turned off their lights. There is little market for the illegally grow pot because there is so much legal stuff grown for the legal medical marijuana stores. If you are a chronic pot smoker you just get a medical card. Your back hurts sometimes doesn’t it? Well doesn’t it? Of course it does. Pot helps? Here is your card. Problem solved. Lost your connection away across town? No problem, your connection is now downtown at the medical pot dispensary.
The formerly illegal growers that I know have never been in any legal trouble so they got licensed to be medical pot providers. You know what?, there is still so much legal pot that their grow rooms are still empty.
It was interesting listening to the radio (rock/alternative/college type) this afternoon. The DJ’s were making unsolicited and unfunded public service announcements about people trying to take weed out of state and another that most ski areas are on leased federal land, so don’t take your legally purchased weed on the slopes this weekend.
Things are really weird in Colorado right now.
Arguably, things are weird everywhere but Colordao.
The “Mile High City” slogan amuses me in this context.
As a Colorado resident, I’m no longer passively apathetic about that slogan. I now hate it with the passion of 1,000 burning suns.
For me, it was mildly amusing when they passed the law and cracked the joke. A year later, I want the slogan changed to anything else. Every joke, every pun - all done to death. 
It sorta makes the late John Denver seem awfully prophetic.
Not sure I ever bought into that. There are strains that are stronger than others, but I don’t really trust the story that there has been a steady march towards a modern super bud. And if a guy hadn’t had a drink since college, I bet 2 or 3 shots of today’s current Vodka would give him trouble with theTV remote.