Tater said:
Clanchattan thats what I'm trying to say. Its not fair to paint everyone with a broad brush.
Potus: I myself have enough plants in my bedroom because I grow using clones and grow 2 tubs of 8 at a time switching 12/12 as soon as they root. With my mums included and the other batch of clones I have waiting for those tubs to empty I have enough plants to put me in jail for more than a few years if I was punished to the full extent of Canadian law. I'm also a hunter and have rifles and amunition around my house because it's almost hunting season. Now if a cop walked in on that and the article got put through the spin machine how do you think I would come out looking. Would I to be painted by your dealer stereotype even if I hadn't sold weed and they charged me with intent to traffic simply because I have scales? Potus the types of dealers you are running into are definetly not the norm here in Canada. I have never even heard a story from a friend of a friend where violence was involved in the selling of weed. I worked in the nightclub industry for 6 years and never heard of such a thing. Maybe its different here. Most people that sell weed up here are either kids who would rather play video games than work or guys in their 50's who are retired and have nothing better to do. None of the people I buy from carry guns, they all love their mothers, and they all love weed. Not of them sell crack or run around gangbanging or whatever it is. Maybe thats why our opinions differ so much. You are entitled to your opinion and I mine, its never dull debating (hehe) with you Potus.
Having a sawed off shotgun loaded in the closet isn't a "hunting" gun. It's for killing humans. If you think that the billion dollar marijuana industry in your country doesn't support the same guns-death-murder events as it does everywhere else, then I would suggest that you're naive.
You just don't see it because you're not in the act. If you track back any seller, you find a supplier. Track that one back and you find his supplier. Go far enough up that hill and you've found the cartels.
Unless you're on the moon.
Find the cartels and you've found murders, beatings, maiming, bombs, death and low-lifes.
If you're at the bottom of the hill, you support the rest of the ant hill with your efforts.
If you are supplied by a private grower, and that is becoming more and more common, then you've escaped the cartels for now. When the cartels want that distribution area, they'll give that grower one chance to join, leave or die.
That's the way it works everywhere. I've seen it in quite a few countries. I see no reason why yours should be any different.
The private grower exists until the cartel decides to take that area. Then it's over.
It's that power thing man. They got it and they'll keep it as long as they can.
It's because of these types that the governments of each country are so adamant about stopping the drugs including MJ. They aren't battling you and I; they're after the cartel powers. It won't end, ever.
Private growers get busted because the tail is now wagging the dog. The cops have all that power and money. They have to use it now.
We get it just like the cartels get it. If the cops find us, we go down. If they find guns, they see you just like they see the cartels.
That's why I stay SMALL and NEVER sell. One pound at a time. When it's almost gone, I do another.
I got carried away on the last round. I did three crops of different weed for some variety and still have most of it. My friends love it. I just don't have enough friends to give it to.
What a problem.