At present, the year-old author is paying close attention to a home grow he started in February. In order to ensure his current crop gets exactly 12 hours of sunshine, Rosenthal keeps tabs on when the sun will rise each day and covers his plants to protect them from exposure to excess light.
Tackling the challenges of gardening — especially when it comes to cannabis, where matters of overfeeding, overwatering, climate control, and pH balance can all easily complicate the process — may pose a welcome distraction for homebound cannaisseur with access to a yard.
Available now, the book collects 20 articles Rosenthal has written — all focused on his backyard experiments. Rosenthal knows that Bay Area home growers will often face challenges when it comes to finding space for their plants. This method produces plants that sprout extremely close to one another.
Naturally, Rosenthal decided to try it out for himself. The results: small but potent plants grown at an expedited harvest rate. One issue with this method is that it will likely require growers to cultivate more than six plants — the maximum number permitted by California law. As a figure in the medical marijuana movement who has found himself in federal court for cannabis cultivation and long advocated for reform on the issue, Rosenthal has seen public opinion shift dramatically on the matter in recent years.
Simply put, Ed tells us that if people had enough money to get a license similar to a grocery store, in general, it wouldn't be a restricted situation. They would just do it. Rosenthal believes that, part of the reason many states proceed this way, is because of a tax issue, as it's easier to tax a few large corporations "than it is to go out and collect from a lot of small farmers.
Ed points to "bureaucratic requirements that are designed to protect people who are already in business and make it very expensive to open a cannabis store.
Rosenthal calls these license programs a "social inequity programs," adding, "In Nevada, for example, just to apply, you need USD , That's part of the inequity program.
And it's a class issue. It's about a difference between social classes that the regulators don't understand. He warns that often the economic need of some people enrolled in social equity programs allows them to be used as fronts by more powerful investors who remain in the shadows.
To reverse this process of "social inequity," Rosenthal proposes more and better training of the industry's workforce in the state : "If they really wanted to achieve social equity in this industry, what they should be doing is funding internship programs and entrepreneurial training. Ed's idea is not new. Basically, the professor argues that the industry should serve the social ascent of the industry's workers through investment in education. This, for him, means social equity in cannabis and a contribution to social justice that is possible.
This is a business and everyone who wants to have it should be licensed and pay taxes. Well, why not do the same thing then for cannabis? He adds, "This would prevent that when people buy cannabis, a lot of that money would leak out of the community. Rosenthal believes that unions should have a place in cannabis, as there is a lot of labor in the sector. And I think it would be good to have unions in both the production and retail phases of cannabis. Rosenthal believes that workers will have fair pay and working conditions while preventing the exploitation of migrant workers who come to California with the illusion of earning unthinkable sums in their home countries.
And often, find themselves living in exploitative conditions, doing monotonous, repetitive work with little rest under no health and safety standards. In the s, growers went to Northern California to forge for better or worse the first cannabis region widely recognized in pop culture. A region that is considered a mecca of self-management and life outside of the conservative white American suburbs typical of the post-war era.
One of the strategies in vogue in California to enhance the value of cannabis products from Northern California are the regimes of appellation of origin -as with wine. Producers in Mendocino county, in the northern part of the state, are preparing regulations to make their cannabis a distinct product that takes advantage of the region's growing cannabis reputation to penetrate market niches. In this regard, Rosenthal considers the system "controversial". Given that they alter local soils, why should they have that designation?
On the other hand, Ed says that despite what most growers think -that they have "native" varieties or landraces, in reality, these strains are not landraces , and are constantly being manipulated. If you really want to grow good cannabis, what you want is lots of sunlight, UV radiation and a good amount of heat.
You don't need to come to Humboldt. The only reason people went up there is because of the difficult interdiction by the police.
Many of them have done illegal things as far as the environment is concerned, like leaking nutrients into the soil and leaching fuels into the watershed which kills native vegetation.
The Guru explains that "there are international companies growing tomatoes and, in parallel, there are farmers grouped in regional forums, cooperatives, chambers and individual farmers or gardeners who can sell their tomatoes on the side of the road and can compete in the 'boutique segment' with an industrial tomato.
And I think, if we had smart regulations, that's what would happen in cannabis," he clarifies. Ed says he doesn't mind that there are multinational industry organizations that certainly contribute to the advancement of the industry. But he clarifies that "this progress should not proceed amidst restrictions for individuals and home growers.
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