Drug Policy

the reality is that, until someone gets into fancy stuff that some mj growers do, gardening is gardening.

I've checked seeds for viability just as you explained (not mj - I only grow legal things)

And I've taken cuttings from plants and rooted them in moist sand to increase my perennials - right now I have some santolina, lavendar, Russian sage and chocolate drop sedum that I'm rooting in recycled cups with plastic baggie and rubber band "greenhouse" covers.

- except in the world of mj, cuttings are called clones. and the plant you start out with is the "mother plant." - instead of just the plant in your garden - that description always makes me think of "mother ship" for some reason...

and people who grow mj spent a lot of time in the 1980s and 1990s, it seems, creating hybrids for a market that wants a shorter plant, no matter the subspecies, that doesn't want side branches so ppl can grow a "sea of green" indoors with uniform access to light, and that wants to maximize THC (and sometimes the effects of one subspecies while using the growing habits of another.)

did you see Michael Pollan's article about growers during the Reagan era? It's a great article.