serious about Green Jobs start with Hemp

EagleSmack

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Too late. A friend of ours has just been recently licensed to grow pot and many people have already been licensed for it.

Well we have those people too. California has had Wal-Mart "type" weed stores. Although the federal government is really cracking down on them even though it is legal in the state for "medicinal" reasons.

I am talking full legalization of it.
 

L Gilbert

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Well we have those people too. California has had Wal-Mart "type" weed stores. Although the federal government is really cracking down on them even though it is legal in the state for "medicinal" reasons.

I am talking full legalization of it.
Nah. It started in the middle of 2001 here. The provinces usually follow each other fairly quickly and your states are too divided. It'll take decades before pot is fully legal in all states.
 

petros

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wow that is pricey, anyway to make it doable?
By delivering a partially or fully finished finished product right off the farm.

My ancestors and I didn't get into farming to lose money and waste all winter wetting, retting, bleaching, dying, looming, sewing and retailing and wholesaling.

Winter is for hunting, fishing, sausage making, snowmobiling, getting drunk on your own homemade booze with as many of your 300 relatives as possible, playing cribbage, going on 2 weeks vacations and making more farmers.
 

karrie

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Yup, it's great fabric but expensive to grow.

Grains and oil seed pay 5x as much per acre.

The farmers here who sell the whole plant seem to make a good profit.

That reminds me I should pick up some more hemp hearts next time I'm at Save-On Foods.

I think the ground is swelling year after year. It is only a matter of time.

Think the US will beat Canada to the legalized finish line? I wonder.


Drinking ages alone lend a hint of who'll get there first.
 

petros

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The farmers here who sell the whole plant seem to make a good profit.

That reminds me I should pick up some more hemp hearts next time I'm at Save-On Foods.
Through marketing co-ops and the prices are volatile and there is a sh*tload more work. They rely on each other to buy equipment from France for harvesting. Domestic swathers aren't tall enough and the sicles can't cut the hemp stocks.

Do the producers a favour and buy 20L buckets from the Hemp CO-OP in Dauphin. The Hemp Harvest brand is way overpriced at $15.