Colorado Legalizing Weed

[Diggles]

oh, heh. forgot people don't grow it like a house plant in the lower 48.

[Lexical]

Do you know how many plants a person wanting to smoke 1-2 times a week would have to maintain to keep that intake?

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a lot more than what a cabin in the woods can hide

[Lexical]

How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?

[Black Jesus]

unplug it

[Tarathiel]

Originally Posted by Lexical [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You do realize that weed being illegal federally requires the DEA to stop any entity selling it right?

i dont imagine that the citizens and/or authorities in CO or WA would be very pleased if the DEA stepped in started arresting people for doing what has been legally voted on and passed in their state. its going to be very interesting seeing how this all pans out and where they draw the line. some very important precedents will be set in the coming months

[Lexical]

Originally Posted by Tarathiel [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i dont imagine that the citizens and/or authorities in CO or WA would be very pleased if the DEA stepped in started arresting people for doing what has been legally voted on and passed in their state. its going to be very interesting seeing how this all pans out and where they draw the line. some very important precedents will be set in the coming months

No doubt, but I highly doubt the DEA will just not raid the stores openly selling pot. They cracked down on the medicinal marijuana stores in California and not much legislation has gone through congress to stop them from continuing to do so.

[Sirken]

Originally Posted by Lexical [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do you know how many plants a person wanting to smoke 1-2 times a week would have to maintain to keep that intake?

not many at all. a good grower with solid nutes and a 1000w HPS can easily pull a pound per plant. 2 months veg, 2 months flower, that gives you three harvests a year. assuming you would be a small time (maybe closet) grower, i imagine you would not have more than 1 or 2 plants.

which means 16-32 ounces every 4 months.

lets assume the average smoker does a gram every single day, thats 30-31 grams per month to smoke.

lets assume you only are pulling in 16 ounces per harvest, (28grams per ounce, 16 ounces per pound, or 448 grams per pound).

448 grams divided by 4 months = 112 grams (4 ounces) per month that you can smoke, every month, and never run out before next harvest is ready.



so to answer your question, a person would have to maintain 1 plant to sustain that intake, and could increase the intake to every day use [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

n'joy

[Lexical]

Originally Posted by Sirken [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

not many at all. a good grower with solid nutes and a 1000w HPS can easily pull a pound per plant. 2 months veg, 2 months flower, that gives you three harvests a year. assuming you would be a small time (maybe closet) grower, i imagine you would not have more than 1 or 2 plants.

which means 16-32 ounces every 4 months.

lets assume the average smoker does a gram every single day, thats 30-31 grams per month to smoke.

lets assume you only are pulling in 16 ounces per harvest, (28grams per ounce, 16 ounces per pound, or 448 grams per pound).

448 grams divided by 4 months = 112 grams (4 ounces) per month that you can smoke, every month, and never run out before next harvest is ready.



so to answer your question, a person would have to maintain 1 plant to sustain that intake, and could increase the intake to every day use [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

n'joy

First, A 1000w hydroponic system generally costs around $600. Second, you forgot about the curing process. A typical plant gets about 2 ounces cured from indoor growing since you are limited by height, 5 ounces if you are skilled at what you are doing. Outdoor you can have more than a couple of ounces, but their cultivation time is a bit longer, and this discussion is about indoors. The DEA says 1lb per plant yes, but that isn't your average home grower. (sauce from real growers: http://www.420magazine.com/forums/in...y-produce.html)

[Lexical]

Down in the thread they are saying yields of 5+lbs per outdoor plant, but those plants are massive. One was quoted at 7 feet wide, 15 feet high and was done outside with no HPS.