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[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

I got a report that this post breaks community rules. I'm not sure it necessarily does, and having written the rules myself I feel like I would know. So I'm leaving this post up.

I will say that despite my love for the herb, playing Marijuana Plant Johnson would be bad for many reasons. Ecological disasterpiece. Terrible weed. Fuck up your neighbors crop.

Please grow responsibly.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes let’s plant a bunch of invasive plants all over the place…

Horrendous idea.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

I don’t think the weed is going to be that great without all the attention that commercial weed gets. Grow media, nutrients, training, pruning, dealing with pests, etc. Not to mention, wild plants are going to get pollinated and end up seedy and not very strong.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I thought ditch weed was already a thing. You could do this with poppy seeds too.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Used to be. Haven't seen any in a while. Nobody throws out seeds, because everyone has seedless. When's the last time you saw someone clean their weed with a frisbee?

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Seeds go in the grinder with the rest. Fuck sorting shit.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cleaning is a ritual. It's therapeutic.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not like it's dirty, seeds are smokable just without benefit. Coffee grinder goes brrr

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They explode. It's jarring.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's because either you don't grind your weed or your grinder can't deal with seeds. If the seed is smashed to bits it wont explode.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Never used a grinder

[–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

your going to grow a bunch of male pants, inadvertently pollinate female plants, and fuck up other people's crops, theres a reason clones are so popular

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We need a screwed-up ecosystem to get the strains we're needing. Female plants only. Cloning and the like.

For what? One toke instead of two? No seeds? This wine-connoisseur mentality that has taken over feeds into the commercialization of what was once the most egalitarian of highs.

Let's just hand the reins to the government and laboratories and give up on the idea of a counterculture.

At least you can still go out and find mushrooms in cowshit.

I didn't know what the fuck your taking about, back in the day when it was illegal everywhere, and counterculture was the only way to get it, all of the old heads knew that you take care of your crops, because your taking care of everybody's crops, pollen can travel miles in the right conditions, you don't want to go and fuck up others stuff cause you can't take care of your own shit.

have you ever seen wild weed? ever tried to smoke it? you get very little, you get no consistency in strains cause everything's mixing so you can forget about indicas and sativas, only hybrid from now on. like you really not doing anybody any favors, instead of you want to spend a bunch of money just grow the weed legit and give it out? or donate it to advocacy groups, or anything else besides reckless wasteful behaviour.

[–] Plaidboy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Here are some reasons I can think of:

  1. This would be an expensive project if it was large scale
  2. This would likely be illegal and thus any large operation would carry high risk of problems with the law
  3. A very small portion of the seeds would survive without proper care
[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 5 days ago
  1. With a hardy species the expense would be much lower than the costs you're likely thinking.

  2. The whole point is, can you imagine if they wanted to make kudzu illegal? It'd be fun to watch them try.

  3. A hardy species my dude. We are researching only for highs. Let's get going on a milder level of THC perhaps, but ridiculous hardiness.

[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

The Hilax speaks for the trees....