“yeah man its cool, take a slug of this man its real groovy man.”

The biggest problem for me is the tobacco that goes with the whole scene, that product is definitely unsafe.

It does show we live in a Hypocracy and not a democracy when
we allow Toxic tobacco and Alcohol and deny less harmful substances.

Good on you for ignoring the idiots at the top and doing your own thing.

On one of your DVDs you show mix of a paper bag and air drying method, since my DVD was “borrowed” I’ve never been able to try this method.

Topping plants, cutting the main stem will make plants branch out more. It also diffuses auxins, hormones that make plants grow upward. Auxins are most concentrated in the central stem. One of the goals in indoor growing is to harvest plants quickly. Cutting the main stem off retards harvest.

Hacking off leaves for any reason does not increase THC content.

I have not personally tested LED (Light-emitting diode) lamps, however I have visited two gardens that grew respectible buds. I just wrote an answer in my “Jorge’s Rx” column that appears in High Times December 2008 issue. I was quite impressed with the new high potency LEDs. The LEDs must use at least one watt per lamp to grow a respectable garden. The gardens I saw were one meter (40 x 40 inches) and illuminated with a single 85w cluster of red and blue LEDs. The buds were not as dense as when grown under HID lamps. I believe there is a big place in the market for such lamps and that technology will improve and the price for them $600 USD or 600€ will drop in relation to demand.

I wrote an article called “The History of Pot” which ran in High Times magazine (USA) a few years ago. it is 2300+ words. I will see if I can get my webmaster, who is on vacation now, to post it on my website. When it is posted, I will share the link.

In general public views have changed since the 70s from marijuana being a symbol of counterculture to one of the evil weed in the late 80s and 90s. Today it is still considered evil by many and others consider it begnin. During the past 10 years cannabis is gaining ground as a natural medicine.

It is difficult to say whether cannabis is more tolerated now than before. Many of the laws are more stict now than earlier, but the fact that cannabis has been around in the public eye for so long makes it more tolerated. None-the-less, there are more people than ever being arrested for cannabis posession than ever before. The site http://www.normal.org is full of arrest statistics that show more than 800,000 people in the USA are arrested annually for cannabis possesion/growing.

Cannabis grown in North America and all over Europe including the UK rivals that of The Netherlands and in many cases it is better. Dutch coffeeshop dope is most often “screened” that is, the buds are bounced around on a silkscreen before being sold to the coffeeshops. Screening knocks off about 5% of the resin which sieves through the screen. The resin is then pressed into high quality hash.

Growing big thick buds is not too dificult. I do not answer direct questions about growing in public places like this. But I will address such questions in my audio interview in September.

The governments are already seeing the light regarding the medical marijuana industry. today in the USA there are 13 states that allow medical marijuana. However, there is still too much money in keeping cannabis illegal - lawyers, prisions, police forces, etc. are all benefiting from iligal cannabis. It is also a political football, one that is easy to kick at will. It will be like the old Soviet Union, as soon as it is so topheavy that it cannot exist, prohibition will fall. Then all the politicos will say “I was with the movement all the time.”

Thus, when one inspects the produce, one imagines it is loaded with crystals.

cheers

What’s your thoughts on chemical drugs?

Thanks