Molalla1
Elite Member
Interesting. Clearly there's a lot of big-money speculation in hemp, CBD, marijuana. Your example sounds like the California gold mines story for the past 160 years - The real money is made by the promoters and they take out their profit from the investors before any production begins. Then most of the time the gold vein is discovered to be limited and the startup cost isn't recovered before the gold runs out. Promoters win, investors lose. Then re-name the mining corporation and start again with a new site, and new marks to fleece. Sounds like growing dope is the modern version of this.
And on the local front: I recently got a letter saying it was sent to all small-acreage parcels in my region asking if I wanted to allow a marijuana grow, on an acre of my orchard. (Its 11 acres overall, 8 in production). Oh H- no! We read of home-invasion robberies, illegals hidden as grow labor, all kinds of problems. No way!!! I didn't answer.
I think we are going to see the big tobacco companies take over growing marijuana, undercutting and replacing the stoner growers.
:thumbsup: . . . I have thought this for many years.