I wonder if it has anything to do with lack of enforcement making weed effectively decriminalized long before the official legalization went through. Official legalization was more of a “government and their buddies want in on the lucrative market”, ignoring that weed was only as expensive as saffron because of the legal risk (or illusion of one) that went along with trading it.
Saffron is expensive because each plant grows 1-4 flowers, and each flower has two yellow and two red stigmata, and saffron is the two red ones. A whole acre of it will yield less than a kilo IIRC.
Weed, on the other hand, is aptly named because it is happy growing pretty much anywhere from swamps to dessert mountains. Only real complication with it is the whole determining the sex of the plant ASAP to remove/separate the males before they pollinate the females and then watch for hermaphrodites. Though, even then, it only affects the quality of the final product, as fertalized females still produce bud, it just has seeds in it (at a surprisingly high density if you’ve never gotten seedy bud before) and doesn’t mature the same. Still works fine for extracts.
If done properly, you can get the whole yield of an acre of saffron from a single weed plant.
I spent a season in Whistler 20 years ago, and even though Whistler is “Disney Mountain” I managed to get to know some local residents through Japanese home stay students.
Weed was everywhere, granted season skiers and and snowboarders are perhaps not a random selection of the population in that regard.
I am from BC. Sure not every Canadian is like that but this person totally exists.
I wonder if it has anything to do with lack of enforcement making weed effectively decriminalized long before the official legalization went through. Official legalization was more of a “government and their buddies want in on the lucrative market”, ignoring that weed was only as expensive as saffron because of the legal risk (or illusion of one) that went along with trading it.
Saffron is expensive because each plant grows 1-4 flowers, and each flower has two yellow and two red stigmata, and saffron is the two red ones. A whole acre of it will yield less than a kilo IIRC.
Weed, on the other hand, is aptly named because it is happy growing pretty much anywhere from swamps to dessert mountains. Only real complication with it is the whole determining the sex of the plant ASAP to remove/separate the males before they pollinate the females and then watch for hermaphrodites. Though, even then, it only affects the quality of the final product, as fertalized females still produce bud, it just has seeds in it (at a surprisingly high density if you’ve never gotten seedy bud before) and doesn’t mature the same. Still works fine for extracts.
If done properly, you can get the whole yield of an acre of saffron from a single weed plant.
I remain unconvinced.
I spent a season in Whistler 20 years ago, and even though Whistler is “Disney Mountain” I managed to get to know some local residents through Japanese home stay students. Weed was everywhere, granted season skiers and and snowboarders are perhaps not a random selection of the population in that regard.