Should I grow pot?
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I'll bet if you put as much energy into growing grass as you put into your other work you would make bookoo's more money.
Think of the possibilities. Weed is growing like 400% or something per year in legal states. Don't ask me to link it up because I pulled that number out of my ass, but I read it's growing like a mofo.
Aviation? meh, not so much.
Think of the possibilities. Weed is growing like 400% or something per year in legal states. Don't ask me to link it up because I pulled that number out of my ass, but I read it's growing like a mofo.
Aviation? meh, not so much.
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CO state tax authority are awash in pot tax revenue. The state has gained a decent rep as a place to take a stoner break, or vacation. Guessing WA is going to have a similar situation when things get going well.
I don't imbibe, but as long as there are folks willing to toke up, and not become a burden to the treasury, it's fine with me. Sadly, the way the govt works, many of them do become a drain on the treasury.
I don't imbibe, but as long as there are folks willing to toke up, and not become a burden to the treasury, it's fine with me. Sadly, the way the govt works, many of them do become a drain on the treasury.
Definitely, easy to grow and a good cash crop. Cloning is a very simple process, but if you grow from seed you need to separate out male plants to prevent seeding. If you let them develop seeds you won't be able to market the bud. You want both Mercury and sodium lights.
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It's a bit risky for someone who holds FAA certificates because it's still a federal crime. The law's not being enforced in states that have legalized it, but that could change tomorrow.
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No, it's not.
The fact that the law is not being enforced does not make something legal.
Here's what the Supreme Court had to say about someone growing pot, even for their own use, with a license from the State of California:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZS.html
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That's a much safer business, legally speaking. Worst case, a new AG federally changes course and starts enforcing federal law, and your business drop off.
If you're in the grow business, your business drops off, you get arrested, and all your assets get seized as proceeds of a drug business. Remember: The law is on the books right now. So long as the statute of limitations has not passed, the federal government can, in the future, nail you for things you do today. It's not ex post facto because the law already exists.
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Or a high end head shop.
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this would explain it....the green oil pan.
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Given the advice in the thread link here was so far off, I'd do some research before following the advice above: http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/foru...159&highlight=synthetic+marijuana#post1819159
As mentioned above, it isn't legal, the laws are merely not being enforced. Also, I think the OP is an FAA certified A&P? Since the certification is federal, could they take the certification away if they found you were growing the stuff?
My opinion is the natural stuff is benign and I don't care if some else enjoys it as long as they are sober at work.
actually, skip the shop and get an ATM and place it in the lobby of other shops.
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I bow to your superior business acumen
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so....the new shop is really a grow house?
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That's my take on it.
pot is the new gold rush. just like the 49ers none of the miners are getting rich, it's the people selling them what they need making the money IMOI bow to your superior business acumen
if I knew how to get into the ATM game I'd be on it
edit: actually I think my example is bad, I think the shop owners are doing pretty well.
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It's a federal crime. Go for it.
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Actually, the people who REALLY make legal money off the pot shops are Girl Scouts. They set up just outside, selling cookies.....
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Yeah but they're a nonprofit.
I guess I could go buy 1000 boxes of GS cookies and resell them at a profit, I'd probably get in trouble somehow for doing so.
I think you discredit the ATM too quickly. The pot shops are cash only, you make $3 per transaction and who has $100 cash on them these days?
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WHAT------- do plants have balls or boobs???
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I carry nothing but cash. It's not unusually to have a minimum $500 in my pocket at any given time. No credit cards.
because that's the norm, not the exception....
figure out how they're doing it, come to CO and open up a credit union or whatever they're doing.Not in Washington. Credit cards...........just like going into Safeway.
Banks and CU's won't touch them here until the federal law changes.
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Unfortunately, the same was true of an Arkansas cop a few years ago. Arrested a woman for growing pot in a flower pot in her house. Turned out to be a hibiscus.
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It's still against federal law, even in states that allow it. The feds have not been pursuing such cases, but that could change at any time. Seems a high in potential to generate personal woe in addition to income...
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Unfortunately, the same was true of an Arkansas cop a few years ago. Arrested a woman for growing pot in a flower pot in her house. Turned out to be a hibiscus.
I've heard of a guy who grew a green house full of poison Ivy, the bunch of feds that came to destroy it was sure sorry they didn't know what the sh-- looked like growing.
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Legalization is up for a vote in my state. After every state has legalized it, who are they going to pursue?
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Awash is a bit optimistic. Latest numbers are decent but we still have the "medical" loophole and there's still plenty of doctors who will prescribe. It's way cheaper than the recreational taxed version so until they figure out how to clear up a real prescription from a purchased one, the revenues are significantly lower than forecast.
Big time. My sister worked for a place that was doing it and they'd rotate who would carry tens of thousands of dollars in their purse/bag to the bank after it had been "de-smelled" and deposit it into all sorts of shell company accounts to keep the bank happy that they had plausible deniability when the Feds came calling to figure out if the bank was taking illegal drug money and "laundering" it.
Additionally various other problems have cropped up. Numerous legal grow houses have burnt to the ground. They often are inside commercial structures with shared walls and have little or no insurance if they're new and figuring out how to legally do banking and pay bills.
Landlords caught on and said "no mas" in most areas. Finding enough space to do it is a "build your own building and self insure" type of thing now. Meaning it's BIG money to even play and consortiums/large combined supply side stuff.
And we're up to three or four massive finds of fields in the Pike National Forest for those who don't want to be a big self-insured corporation to pull it off.
I figure in the not too distant future there will be additional laws playing favorites with the large grow companies essentially locking out small companies and solidifying them into a "WalMart of Pot" essentially. Probably whichever company greases the palms of the local politicians the most.
They got around the advertising bans by "adopting" every stretch of highway in the city. Hahaha. "This highway adopted by Metro Cannabis" with a pot leaf logo.
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Colorado had a pot tax holiday today. More taxes came in than are allowed buy our Tabor tax laws and this was the best way they could figure to give it back. Not regular sales tax but the 25% excise and pot sales tax. Lines are supposedly out the door.
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Some states act like it does.
Well ya gotta remember the whole "states rights" thing. There are many reasons we have the layers of government that we have.
In other words, get mad all you like but ya gotta remember the power structure.