If you smoke marijuana and don't grow your own, you are being poisoned
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How true this is. The legal grows use the same nasty stuff, Eagle 20 or something along that line. It's been a while since my son worked at a legal grow. He got a regular job because he couldn't stand the mental instability of most of the people working there. Lots of hardcore drug users in the business.
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That's terrible
It's banned but used.
I have not yet read the article and won't until after work, but I can assure you that your headline is more accurate than you know. At one time my son worked in a legal grow facility here in Colorado and would tell me stories about the banned pesticides used during even the flowering stage. I wouldn't buy anything from a dispensary. Organic my ass.
I'm also concerned with the increased consumption of concentrated THC products. They use butane many times (especially in the black market) and that is bad news for someone smoking it. Look for ice water extraction if you want a safer product.
I grow organic for my friends and family but don't use it myself. I may post pictures in the gardening community in time, but it's not a high priority for me compared to other plants I grow. Bottom line is grow your own if you want to be sure. The first few years may be full of pests but as time goes the beneficial bugs move in and your garden will be beautiful and pure. Organic is the only way. Bubble bags are cheap if you want concentrates
Youd be a fool to think some backroom schmuck trying to make a extra dollar cares if your poisoned after using their product for a extended amount of time.
Its amazing people dont really think about any of this, like the chemicals that line their pots and pans, the packaging we put our food in, cant handle watching someone microwave even those "safe" plastic bowls. Let alone whats put into our water, air, and food.
But yet people think its some kinda big conspiracy theory. Wild.
At least in california its one of the few places where they attempt to test purity. Weed is one of those plants, like cat tails, that will soak up whatever is in the ground. Funny enough seems like china and other countries will do with this herbs and then sell the product to us. On top of that they will add shit like arsenic to paprika to make it more red. Lol.
In canada, ive smoked some shit that they should be embarrased to even sell. Bought a cheap black market ounce once, filled with mold. That was terrible had to throw the entire thing away.
But ive smoked weed licensed from the government thats full of spider mite webs so it doesnt seem any better.
Just try different products until I find something cheap that doesnt choke me the fuck out or make me feel funny. Theres usually a couple companies that actually try to give a shit.
But your right, growing your own is the way to do it, but even then you have to be wary of what soil your using, what water you use it with, again mold/spider mites.
Occasionally you even see those "weed gave me thunder headache" news storys. But im not convinced its weed, or just the contaminants that may be in it. Most of these people who get sick from marijuana have one thing in common, they consume a fuck load of it.
I smoke about a gram after work, a joints worth. But since I havent been able to keep a job, im smoking about two grams a day and I still hate it. Id like to quit but at this point it aint happening with the medical issues. Bullshit insurance wont pay for it.
Then again if they would help me with my parathyroid I would actually be able to work again. But oh no, its because I am a pothead who wants to stay home all day wasting his life away contributing nothing to society.
Fuck this society anway.
I've grown for 15 years. Favorite method is organic soil in fabric pots. Second favorite is hydro in buckets pulsed by a timer like an ebb and flow system. Have never gotten into concentrates. Haven't noticed any cognitive or health effects despite near daily usage.
It was recently legalized in my state so I am finally able to do an outdoor grow.
It only makes sense that pesticides are used for commercial production. Why put all that labor into a plant just to lose it to bugs and mold? Of course they will spray it - nobody cares about the health of the end user.
It handles snow well. It also handles down to 28 degrees just fine. I've been growing in Colorado (Denver area) for almost 30 years, straight in the ground. I have had massive compost piles every year and the clay soil is in good shape now. Some years I'm afraid the plants will get too big.
Who cares?