Auggie... I would love to take a grower's tour of the Triangle. The stuff of legend...
Dude, I thought I answered this. Maybe I intended to and didn't. Maybe I typed it all out and didn't actually post it. Hell, I dunno. You know how a potheads brain works? You do? Then you're the only one ... I can remember the words to every Led Zeppelin song, the riffs and lyrics to every Black Sabbath ... but I can't remember to put the toilet seat down.
Anyway, yea. That tour.
California is SO fracked up with their Marijuana Laws. Really, there aren't any. There is SUCH a mix and mashup of laws that nobody knows what end is up. The cops don't know (or care) - they just want to make big raids where there's lots of money for them to steal and add to their budgets. The District Attorney's don't know (or care) - they just want to get re-elected. The judges don't know (or care) - they too just want to get re-elected and clear their calendars are quickly as possible. The lawyers love it - they're getting rich. The growers don't have a clue. The patients get screwed.
As a clone farmer I supply babies to farmers - and I don't even know where their farm is. I don't want to know. If I were to deliver 500 clones to your site and I get raided next week, and you get raided a week after that - what would you think? Would you at least consider that I ratted you out? I don't want that question to even be considered - so I may know you well enough to go drinking with you, but I don't know where your garden is. On purpose. I don't wanna know.
Nobody can grow legally in California. Can't be done. Too many conflicting and ignored laws.
And, I am not the only one that thinks that way. The authorities are getting VERY aggressive in California. The cops, DA's and courts ignore the laws they don't like. Cops arrest on cultivation laws passed decades ago and ignore the MMJ laws passed five years ago. Our politicians don't care about 'the people'. They only care about their own self interests. We, the people, are treated as children - and the politicians are mommy and daddy.
So, that tour would be fun. I'd like to do it myself. But, the only gardens I know about are the ones that I am directly involved in - unless its a cop asking the question, in which case "I never saw those plants before in my life."
As far as the toilet seat thing: Who says it SHOULD be down. I think that it looks just fine UP. Where is it written ...?
~ Auggie ~