Smoking Pot

[Ninurta]

I have much the same complaint about the weed not being what it used to be. It's way too potent, covered in crystals. Pretty sure they dope the dope. Spray crap on it. I always buy the cheap stuff and check the flowers doesn't look suspect.

There have been reports of weed getting dusted with fentanyl here in the US, much like some of it used to get dusted with PCP back in the day, both methods trying to amp it up. The PCP dusting is what made me lay off the weed originally, and the threat of fentanyl dusting doesn't make me feel any warmer or fuzzier about it.

I reckon the cartels have found themselves with too much fentanyl on their hands since it's harder to get it across the border now, so they've got to do SOMETHING with all that overstock!

But seriously - if I didn't grow it myself, I wouldn't fool with it. Now the fact is, I DO grow some, but I don't even smoke what I grow myself, since the seed came from some of that high-test weed. Folks tell me mine is pretty mild, more like old school weed, but I don't think I'll chance it, all the same. I don't fancy another bout of waiting for my heart to explode. 

I just grow it for the ornamental value - I think it's a pretty plant - and I save the stems to eventually try to get the fiber out of to maybe make some string. I just give the flowers away. Not enough yield off 4 plants to bother going into business over it. But shit, at a 4 plant per growing season maximum, it'll be years and years before I realistically have enough fiber to make a pair of shoe strings, so that's probably just a waste.

It's something to do. it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble, although since the Feds have started screwing with the rules again, this past growing season might be the last I grow. To much headache trying to navigate their murky and confusing rule book.

The state rule book is just as confusing - you can grow up to 4 plants here for any purpose, but you can't buy it anywhere but a dispensary, and you can't buy the seeds at all to grow it from, anywhere. You have to hope you luck up and find a bag seed to pop into the ground. You can't sell it, but you can give away as much as folks can stand to carry off... except that they are limited to possession of an ounce in public... and the state is pretty murky on how much you can posses in private... other than the 4 plant maximum while it is growing. So you can grow it, but you can't get the seeds to grow it from, and you can give away as much as you can stand to give, but not more than an ounce per person if they have to pass through "public" to get it to their house. The laws are all over the damned place, both state and federal, and they are subject to change on short notice, or no notice at all.

It's a headache trying to navigate the often contradictory red tape. The law should say simply "Get some seed. Drop it in the ground. The end."

So, in that case, I might have to start hitting the streets and finding some trouble again, since the government may get upset with my dinky 4 plants a growing season that keeps me at home on the farm... and if I'm going to get in trouble either way, I'd rather it be for something BIG and serious! Something that counts for something, y'know? You know what they say - go big or go home!

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