My wife is a cannabis farmer
My wife and three of her friends combined their savings together to start a marijuana growing business! Growing marijuana and marketing to dispensaries used to be an easy process.
You could make a living as a small time grower without difficulty.
Then laws came into effect requiring that the cannabis products be taken from seed to sale. Every step of production must be managed by the same person. My wife and her friends then needed to pool their resources together once again to transform into a high end growing operation rather than small-time growers. The growing operation requires special lighting, nutrients and irrigation systems. Each person handles a different aspect of the growing process to prepare the cannabis for sale. All the dispensaries in the area are able to place an order with them. The various cannabis products are packaged, labeled and legally available to be sold. It was a bunch of red tape they needed to take care of to get to this point. I had hoped this meant that I would have access to top shelf weed whenever I want. I hoped for free marijuana of any strain. The issue is that the marijuana industry is constantly expanding. My wife’s inventory frequently gets sold out. She can’t grow enough to offer me any leftovers. So I am forced to buy my cannabis products just like anyone else. I actually bought my wife’s cannabis at a dispensary when it was grown and packaged right next door to me. Thankfully several of the weed shops have offered me a discount on the stock. It is still odd smoking my wife’s weed but going to a shop to purchase it first.