iGrow Medical Marijuana: A California Growth Industry
iGrow Medical Marijuana: A California Growth Industry
The California economy is in trouble, but there’s at least one industry in the state that’s booming: medical marijuana.
Even though medical marijuana has been legal in California since 1996, the people working in the industry continue to operate in the shadows of legal uncertainty. Dispensary owners and growers live in constant fear of being raided by federal agents who maintain that marijuana, medicinal or otherwise, remains illegal under federal law. And for years, indoor marijuana growers have dropped big bucks on growing equipment while keeping mum about what exactly it is they’ve been growing.
In Oakland, however, things are changing. Earlier this year iGrow (now called weGrow) became the first hydroponics store to come out of the grow closet and proclaim to the world that they exist to help farmers grow more and better medical marijuana. iGrow’s slogan? There’s no such thing as a $10,000 tomato!
We went to iGrow, the first US hydroponics superstore catering explicitly to pot farmers, to learn more about the burgeoning medical marijuana industry in California.
Approximately 6.5 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.
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@SharkDude1 not the same quality at ALL!! plus u cant grow all year round
been smoking for 2 years an still healthy an i go to the gym 5/7.
Another excuse to use drugs, fabulous!
We need people working and boosting up the economy!!!
We can’t afford to have 100,000 human-beings high 24HRS!!!
WAKE UP WORLD!!!!!!!!
Green jobs FTW!
Really? So what is the cost of a person just growning it in there backyard? Five bucks at the most.. Makes no sence to spend 10 grand when you can just grow the plants in your own yard.
very eloquently spoken until 2:16 — that laugh, says it all!
@SharkDude1 Well, as with any kind of agriculture, the more sophisticated your tech, the bigger your harvest will be. If you just plant corn in your back yard, sure, you’ll grow enough corn to eat for a month, but you wont have enough corn to feed 50 customers for a month.
@blogegog I recently left high school and now have a degree level job, earning above the national average. I am also getting promoted in just under two months. Don’t assume you know everything about a person just because they smoke in their spare time 😉
@jjepen21 You can be realistic about tax and regulations and still be libertarian.
YES ON 19!!
@plantlife102 does your mind limit you to only pot?? i dont think soo !! :]
Gambling is more addictive and has divided more families than pot
@blogegog You’re right. I can’t convince you, so I won’t bother trying any more.
@MagnusIan I agree, but the economic argument doesn’t hurt.
People should stop obeying politicians and just live free, rather than begging for permission from some strangers that have no legal authority.
5:13 Harold & Kumar
@blogegog Keep telling myself what? That I have a good job?
Pot is the new bubble economy, but what a fun bubble!
@AnarchistDictator Well. Tax is better than jail. Can’t have your cake and eat it too.
@MagnusIan Why don’t you calm the fuck down, Magnuslan. You did state that pot should not be taxed or regulated. Which I said I agree but it isn’t a realistic political position to take. My comment about being realistic not making me less Libertarian should have been directed at jjepen21.
The only problem with the Semi Truck growing arrangement is, if too many people get involved in that? It’ll drive the price WAY down since the market will be flooded. I wouldn’t complain though.
Amazing
thx for upload!
is this a career choice?, i now know what i want to do with my life GROW MEDICAL MARIJUANA =)
The walmart of grow stores I rather buy from a local shop where you really get to know the people and owner.
Just let people grow it in there backyard. It would be cheaper.
Well done videos! I really appreciate the extra effort to creat quality instructional videos!
@NewBrazdolph Sorry ma’am.
sweeeeettt. too bad for prop 19 :/
I have grown and used weed for nearly 20 years. Not once have I seen any dangers arise from it. Users aren’t violent, nor are they criminals. The only violence I can see, is if men in blue shirts turn up with guns and dogs.
Smart money is on Eric Holder showing up there with a few federal swat teams next week.
@blogegog You blame it on the weed, but it’s clearly the fault of prohibition that suppressed the entrepreneurial sophistication and tech creativity you can see in this video. When it is legal, as in Portugal, the user rate actually goes down, people can use it openly just like alcohol so parents and responsible people are more in control, not the criminals. Our drug problems are the fault of the Drug Wars that criminalize and jail innocents while making rewards high for drug lords.
@coffeebuzzz
there are a few smokers criminal . Or even addicted .
I’ve noticed over the years that the effects on people are very diffrent .
Ofcourse you have connouiseurs , fun smokers , medicalpeople ……………………………………………………………. but there are also people who are really addicted to it !
It just depends on the person’s IQ .
I would never recommend some1 smoking with a IQ lower than 99
BULLSHIT
Hey stupid fuck how many jobs do you think the medical legalization of marijuana has created just in Cali alone ? Thousands… Plus the people that frequent these places all work, how do you think they get the money for the weed they buy. The only thing prohibition does is give money and power to drug dealers on the corner that shoot up the place and the drug cartels in Mexico. Ya prohibition is working alright. Working to make the criminal element stronger and stronger and boost your tax’s.
how can you watch this and hate? HOW I DEMAND ANSWERS AS A CITIZEN. IM DIEING AND I WANT MY MEDICINE.
@sagan4win park wayyyyyy far away then. That sucks man :/
OMG a home depot for weed!!!
it would be easier for everyone to just decrimalize it
@libertyfizz Calm the fuck down, libertyfizz. I never stated that pot shouldn’t be taxed or regulated in some form. Jesus.
thank you california for NO on prop 19 you fail at life!
wtf does that has to do with anything ?? lmao
nice shop
Marijuana prohibitionism is IDENTICAL to alcohol prohibitionism in the 1920s. So immoral and impractical. How do people NOT know this??
I guess: "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain!"
I would love to help… No criminal record.
Grow your own,
visit GROWRELENTLESS dotcom for premium grow boxes
@blogegog
You’re not that bright, are you? I mean, that’s just pathetic.
I directly correlated your argument to another potential argument, and explained how your argument could be used against other groups. How the judgment of ‘value’ is such a loose and slippery thing.
So, to answer? My grandmother, the last one alive, is around 90. She can’t remember things well, and sometimes forgets how we’re related, or my name. It’s sad to see her like this, and I love her. She’s my grandma.
I guess if the tax & reg people get it legal that would be good, but I’m pretty sure it will be used as a way to legislate ‘morality’ by the do-gooders and we’ll end up with 50%+ taxes before long.
Great vid!
Shame prop 19 failed. Would be a great stepping stone on the way to a more sensible drug policy world wide.
@StylistRhymist on your own there mate