Title pretty much sums it up. Common sense finally prevailed and MJ is legal and regulated under an amalgam of alcohol and tobacco regulations. With the added proviso that a legal consumer can have X plants or 2X plants per family residence with multiple eligible members.
Do you set up a greenhouse or grow room? Put a pot in the corner of the living room? (pun intended) And what varieties do you plant assuming you have the background to have an opinion.
As for me, I most likely would for the purpose of making edibles. No interest in smoking/vaping. No opinion on strains, but I would certainly be asking advise here as there are some budtenders in our numbers.
Followup question for those with relevant experience. What’s a reasonable number for X?
It’s legal where I live, and I buy mine from a dispensary. Kind of like how I still buy herbs and strawberries while my garden bed lies fallow. Sigh. Maybe someday…
The completely legal clause is for the benefit of the US users to remove any possibility of the feds feeling froggy and coming down on them. Or anywhere else where it’s still illegal I suppose.
Is it legal for you to grow your own as well? Any limitations on quantity or anything else?
New Yorkers 21 years and older can grow up to six plants in their home for personal use (3 mature plants and 3 immature plants) and a maximum of twelve plants per household (6 mature plants and 6 immature plants), even if there are three or more adults over the age of 21 in the residence.
Please be aware the home cultivation of cannabis plants is not allowed immediately. Pursuant to the MRTA, the home cultivation of cannabis plants may only be permitted after the Office of Cannabis Management issues regulations governing home cultivation of cannabis, which must be no later than 18 months after the first adult-use retail sale.
Cannabis plants must be kept in a secure place and not accessible to any person under 21.
Home cultivated cannabis cannot be sold to anyone and is only intended for personal use.
Please note, it is illegal to make cannabis hash oil or concentrates using substances like butane, propane, or alcohol with home grown cannabis.
Local municipalities may enact and enforce regulations relating to home cultivation of cannabis provided, no municipality may completely ban or prohibit home cultivation.
It’s a huge pain in the ass to grow. Other things are very easy to grow and I don’t grow them, either. If it’s available at a store, I’ll just buy it at a store. I’m certain what they have at the store is already a much higher quality than I could possibly produce without at least years of trial and error.
Nah, I wouldn’t, any more than I would grow my own vegetables. Too much hassle and the quality would be lower than what a professional farmer would have.
I’d just buy it. In fact, lazily enough that I’d even try to buy it online rather than drive to a store.
No. It’s legal here and I tried it once. Huge effort for marginal (but plentiful) product. No more.
By the way, I like the smell of the plant and grow a few in one of my outdoor beds. But I do not harvest anything and don’t care if they are male or female.
Here in Ontario, it’s legal to grow your own, up to four plants per household, I believe, no multipliers for extra people in the house.
And the non-theoretical answer is, no, I don’t grow any. For myself, it’s because I don’t use pot*. But of my pot-using friends**, I know of only one that’s growing their own. So I expect the most common answer will be “No”. Which isn’t too surprising. Even with “Brew your own” stores out there to help you with it, most people still buy all their beer and wine. It’s a hell of a lot easier and faster, and almost always also better quality. I don’t see why the product being pot changes that calculus.
*I tried edibles once after legalization, and did not enjoy the experience. I don’t want to smoke or vape due to preexisting lung problems, so I guess pot is not for me.
**Turns out there were even more of these than I knew pre-legalization, and I knew quite a few even then.
No, too much work. Also my cats would destroy them. And then I would cry. Plus I could never grow the quality of stuff they sell at dispensaries. So why bother?
I had a wonderfully successful grow op for several years in my previous home. Y flowering room had two 600 watt HPS lights in air-cooled hoods with a big carbon drum scrubber to handle odor. I vegetated under fluorescent lights in my attic.
It was so discreet that nobody knew, including my kids who often overnighted with me.
I do not grow now, because it’s illegal and I’m a medical marijuana patient. But boy, do I miss growing. If Pennsylvania legalized it I’d start germinating seeds tomorrow.
Not true. If anything my grows gave slightly better results since it was a smaller scaled op. My eight flowering plants got twice daily attention. Thousands of plants under lights creates all sorts of problems.
I almost certainly wouldn’t as I don’t have space in my apartment and have never tried it. Plus no one who is a blood relation to me that has tried it has enjoyed it. However, I would try edibles to see if I am an exception, but I doubt that my genetics would allow me to enjoy it so much that I’d want to grow my own.
I would not. It is a fair amount of daily work but the yield is usually good. Thing is, I stopped smoking and started vaping years ago. It’s waaaay too much work to make my own vape cartridges tho; I’d rather pay someone else to do all that reliably and consistently.
I wouldn’t, because I live in a reasonably dense suburb. I don’t think they are plants that can be just grown ‘discretely,’ and I imagine the cost of growing them ‘securely’ would be outrageous.
The gardeners around here already have problems with people swooping in and stealing their strawberries and tomatoes – heck my next door neighbor even had someone steal the ‘prize’ zucchinis she was growing for a garden show! Can you imagine putting in all that work to grown your own pot, only to have some local teenagers swipe the plants just before you’re ready to harvest? And the possible legal effects?