7 Things I Learned Working on a Pot Farm
For the stoner sect, working on a pot farm must seem like the equivalent of a fat person winning one of those contests where they get to stuff their shopping cart with as much food as they can in one minute. But I–your faithful blogger—have actually worked on a pot farmer in Mendocino County (part of the Emerald Triangle) and the fantasy isn’t always the same as the reality. So here are 7 truths and fictions about working on a pot farm:
There is a shitload of weed on a farm: TRUE!
You better believe it. Bushels and bushels of freshly trimmed weed stacked to the ceiling, with exotic names as Trainwreck and Purple Indica.
The local police are always ready to bust a pot farm. FALSE!
In Mendocino the local police aren’t concerned about the weed that is grown in the area. If they busted all the farms, that would crash the local economy. What they are more worried about is robbery. Gangs from L.A. have come to this area armed with AK47s to rob farms of their weed because it’s so profitable and abundant.
It’s easy to find a pot farm to work on in San Francisco. FALSE!
I had one pot farm scheduled to work on and the night before leaving I got an email that the DEA swooped down and took all their plants. Other times people were really flaky on when I should be going up (“Oh, dude? Was that today!?”)
When eating is involved on a pot farm, it gets very quiet. TRUE!
As much food production (sandwiches, etc) goes on as weed production, followed by moments when all you hear is chewing.
It’s fun to trim weed. FALSE!
Trimming weed is one of the most monotonous tasks known to humanity. All day long you sit shaping buds over a garbage bag with a pair of scissors and rubber glove on your hand. If this were perfectly legal I’m sure this job would pay $7.50 an hour. Instead, trimmers are paid $100 per each pound of weed they trim.
People who work on pot farms really, really, really like pot. TRUE!
It couldn’t be more ideal. They can trim weed and smoke it ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Not only that, but they can do so while listening to hippie music ABOUT weed and centering ALL conversation – like wine snobs – around, well, weed.
There’s nothing scary about a pot farm. FALSE!
You have that combustible mixture of paranoia and fear of being robbed while stuck in the middle of a wooded nowhere. Late at night every little noise can trigger the fear that the gangs from L.A. have arrived to rob the place at gunpoint, or the DEA has swooped down to bust everyone in sight. Yay, weed!
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"Late at night every little noise can trigger the fear that the gangs from L.A. have arrived to rob the place at gunpoint, or the DEA has swooped down to bust everyone in sight. Yay, weed!"
this should have read
"Late at night every little noise can trigger the fear that the gangs from L.A. have arrived to rob the place at gunpoint, or the DEA has arrived to rob the place at gunpoint. Yay, weed!"
fuck weed. i don't know exactly when this shit became so popular (other than the cliche image of the sixties) but weed sucks. Anyone I know who smokes it is going to be washing dishes until their dead. If you are going to do drugs do a real one, or at least take up drinking.
IF LIFE COULD BE SO SIMPLE……………
Hey Johnny that's great that you don't like weed but smoking it doesn't mean your going to end up washing dishes the rest of your life….you need to do your research.
Mandy, he may be blowing things out of proportion but you can't exactly pull up statistics on "wages and jobs of all stoners", so it's not really possible to "research" this.
From my experience most people i know who hit the ganja daily have lower paying jobs than I do (I don't it smoke), but they are pretty happy with their lives and are generally more relaxed.
smoke weed every day and i mean everyday. Im a bussiness major at uconn with a 3.9 gpa. I dont think im doin too bad for myself
Well, from experience, everyone I know who smokes it works in office jobs – well paying ones too! So yeah, not everyone is a skanky low-life or working-class so :p
uhhhh Johnny and Weaver are kinda wrong.. to their surprise, more people smoke weed than they think. even people who make a butt load of $…..now its proly true that alot of stoners are lazy and dont do well… but.. thats not always the case.
and have you guys ever gotten high?> proly not.
i make a good living (over 100k) and i smoke everyday… bitches
Mandy and Weaver…I smoke on a daily basis for a lower back problem and make $135k+ per year. Last year was my biggest year at $195k and that was the year I started smoking a lot more.
I used to sell bud to lawyers, doctors, judges, and losers. There is no connection between pot and job description.. even cops smoke pot (at least those in the position to do so that like to smoke it)
I still smoke and i make about $40k a year with benefits. I say tax the shit, get our economy back on track, and let's move on. Good day sirs (and madam)
yeah johnny pot only became popular in the sixties…i mean it's not like it's been used medicinally for thousands of years or anything. dumbass
I have been smoking weed for years and I made over $500K last year. In fact I know of two other potheads the I worked with and made the same amount or more.
Johnny, following that stereotype, the only thing you're going to do in your life is drink beer and beat your wife and children. Have fun, fatass.
Not wanting to offend anyone, but I just find people with $100,000+ salaries, coming online to a website like this, and talking back at them is quite… I don't know. I find it hard to believe. You sound like a really well off person and yet you want to waste your time posting??? Come on… I find that hard to believe, I'm sorry.
And I'm only a 2nd year student so I'm still spending the majority of my life messing around. So I do not have a $100,000+ salary.
I can safely say I have been high almost everyday in college. I'm a junior with a 3.6 gpa and a full ride. I go to class high and study high and I'm fine with it. I haven't gotten into trouble with the authorities or the school. I would say I have my shit together alot better than some people who would never smoke. I could probably do better in school if I quit smoking, but I'm having an awesome time and have my shit together.
I used to smoke quite a bit in college, and I still toke up every now and again. I don't wash dishes. I make plenty of money as a Computer Programmer.
Weed is a villianized drug, something I feel unfairly so. Don't hate just because it's not your bag.
Alcohol and cigarettes cause more fatalities and overdoses deaths than marijuana.
No one dies from a weed overdose.
HEHE While you're on the topic. I'd like to add that as well as Some_Guy, I really find myself skeptical to people that claim to make shitloads of money and have incredible GPA's yet find it difficult to use grammar befitting of an educated business person.
=D I personally think its a lot of bullshit. =/
P.S. I'm a highschool senior without a job…=P
BTW regarding "Some_Guy"'s post, about high salary earners posting on this site?
I'm a web surfing fiend and StumbleUpon brought me here. Just cuz I'm successful doesn't mean I don't dick around on random websites and post comments.
No $100,000 plus salary here, but I do make $70,000 a year and I smoke everyday. In addition, my mother smokes as well and she makes over $100,000 a year. Why am I bothering to post? Because dickheads like some of the posters on here give weed a bad name without proper research or experience with the plant. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned hemp farms. Neither of them spent their time washing dishes all day… they had slaves for that.
I serviced a CO2 generator on a pot farm several years ago. It was a 2 min. job. I was asked "How much in cash?" I said $50.
I was given 2 bags and a grateful thank you.
I got home and opened both bags. One contained a pound of grass. The other contained $500 in cash with a note. "No one does this for less."
I was happy for a long time. And grateful too.