'You don't have to like Brussels sprouts to grow Brussels sprouts'
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EVERETT, Wash. -- Farmer Bruce King makes his money selling pigs, but he's thinking about diversifying his business by adding marijuana now that it is legal in Washington.
"With pot you have a crop which will make on an acre what might take you 500 acres and a half million to make with a conventional farm," he said.
King maintains a blog aimed at his fellow farmers, and he said three dozen of his readers have shown interest in opening their own marijuana farms.
The idea of adding large amounts of pot to the area isn't sitting well with all of King's neighbors. Farmer Cora Cunningham said she's going to stick with cows and doesn't like the idea of farmers using prime agriculture real estate to grow marijuana.
"When they don't have beef or food or fruit to eat, what are they going to do, just smoke pot?" she said.
Even if King starts a pot farm, he said he would have no interest in sampling his own crops.
"I've actually never tried it and have no interest in it," he said. "You don't have to like Brussels sprouts to grow Brussels sprouts."
King is far from the first farmer to see there's money to be had in marijuana. The Liquor Control Board, which will regulate marijuana farms, has received daily calls from people interested in growing, processing or selling pot. Thousands more have signed up for email updates, according to the board.
Under federal law, it's still illegal to grow pot. However, the Liquor Control Board is busy developing a list of rules and officials say the Department of Justice will soon issue a policy to let the state know what it should expect.
"I think there's going to be 10,000 licenses before we're done," King said.
Kind isn't waiting. He plans to buy his $250 license and a greenhouse so he can start bringing home the bacon in more ways than one. He estimates he could make $40,000 more per acre by growing pot than from his pigs, though he plans on doing both.
"With pot you have a crop which will make on an acre what might take you 500 acres and a half million to make with a conventional farm," he said.
King maintains a blog aimed at his fellow farmers, and he said three dozen of his readers have shown interest in opening their own marijuana farms.
The idea of adding large amounts of pot to the area isn't sitting well with all of King's neighbors. Farmer Cora Cunningham said she's going to stick with cows and doesn't like the idea of farmers using prime agriculture real estate to grow marijuana.
"When they don't have beef or food or fruit to eat, what are they going to do, just smoke pot?" she said.
Even if King starts a pot farm, he said he would have no interest in sampling his own crops.
"I've actually never tried it and have no interest in it," he said. "You don't have to like Brussels sprouts to grow Brussels sprouts."
King is far from the first farmer to see there's money to be had in marijuana. The Liquor Control Board, which will regulate marijuana farms, has received daily calls from people interested in growing, processing or selling pot. Thousands more have signed up for email updates, according to the board.
Under federal law, it's still illegal to grow pot. However, the Liquor Control Board is busy developing a list of rules and officials say the Department of Justice will soon issue a policy to let the state know what it should expect.
"I think there's going to be 10,000 licenses before we're done," King said.
Kind isn't waiting. He plans to buy his $250 license and a greenhouse so he can start bringing home the bacon in more ways than one. He estimates he could make $40,000 more per acre by growing pot than from his pigs, though he plans on doing both.
Just some helpful things I have learned recently from the skilled pot smokers here in Eugene, OR. When the munchies strike, it is best to break out the vineger & oil and start eating all of those incredibly healthy vegetables (like brussles prouts). Ginger salad dressings also help with the cotton mouth. Ginger beers and teas are also better than beer or other beverages for cotton mouth too. Doing this will avoid dehydration, obesity, nightmares, and sugar crash/hangovers.
Brilliant Idea! Pigs can eat the leaves and stems nobody smokes, then get the munchies and eat more of the same, then the farmer can sell the pig's bacon to humans, that get the munchies and eat more of the same.
Sounds like that charlatan tale of the fleece farmer who bred rats for their fur, fed the skinned rat carcasses to their offspring to feed more rats, to get more fur...freeing the farmer of ever buying food for the rats.
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I would still like to try the bacon. And, I once bought a hat made in Vietnam out of rat fur/leather. Very nice hat! They make great Thai-stick too!
I need to drink more coffee... when I looked at the picture I thought to myself "That doesn't look like brussel sprouts!" Â HAHAHAÂ
We're in the wrong state... I want a plant.  I love the smell of the plants. Don't smoke it but not against it...