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Marijuana Detailed Research MARIJUANA HORTICULTURE: Growing and Cultivating the Weed * alt.hemp: from the newsgroup of the same name * Bongs and Pipes: bongs, pipes, etc * Gravity Bongs: gravity bongs * Growlights: for marijuana * Marijuana Consumption: more stuff on bongs, pipes, eating, etc * Marijuana Eating: p.o. consumption of marijuana (butter, brownies, etc...) * Marijuana Law: state laws Marijuana is a deciduous plant which grows from seeds. The fibrous sectionof the plant was once used to make rope.The flowering tops, leaves, seeds, and resin of the plant isused by just about everyone to get HIGH. Normally, the vegetable parts of the plant are smoked to produce thishigh, but thay can also be eaten. The axtive ingredient in marijuanaresin is THC (tetahydrocannabinol). Marijuana contains from 1 - 4 percent THC (4 per cent must be considered GOOD dope). Marijuana grows wild in many parts of the world, and is cultivated inMexice, Vietnam, Africa, Nepal, India, South America, etc.,etc. Themarijuana sold in the United States comes primarily from, yes, theUniited States. It is estimated that at least 50 per cent of the grass on the streetsin America is homegrown. The next largest bunch comes actoss theborders from Mexico, with smaller amounts filtering in from Panama,occasionally South America, and occasinally, Africa. Hashish is the pure resin of the marijuana plant, which is scraped fromthe flowering tops of the plant and lumped together. Ganja is theground-up tops of the finest plants. (It is also the name given to anysort of marijuana in Jamaica.) Marijuana will deteriorate in about two years if exposed to light,air or heat. It should always be stored in cool places. Grass prices in the United States are a direct reflection of the lawsof supply and demand (and you thought that high school economicswould never be useful). A series of large border busts, a short growingseason, a bad crop, any number of things can drive the price of marijuanaup. Demand still seems to be on the increase in the U.S., so prices seldomfall below last year's level. Each year a small seasonal drought occurs, as last year's supply runslow, and next year's crop is not up yet. Prices usually rase about20 - 75 per cent during this time and then fall back to normal.Unquestionably, a large shortage of grass causes a percentage of smokersto turn to harder drugs instead. For this reason, no grass controlprogram can ever be beneficial or successful. GROWING IT! There is one surefire way of avoiding high prices and the grass DT's:Grow your own. This is not as difficult as some authorities on thesubject would make you believe. Marijuana is a weed, and a fairly vivacious one at that, and it will grow almost in spite of you. OUTDOORS Marijuana Grower's Handbook: The Indoor High Yield Guide Contrary to popular belief, grass grows well in many place on theNorth American continent. It will flourish even if the temperature doesnot raise above 75 degrees. The plants do need a minimum of eight hours of sunlight per day andshould be planted in late April/early May, BUT DEFINITELY, after thelast frost of the year. Growing an outdoor, or au naturel, crop has been the favored methodover the years, because grass seems to grow better without as muchattention when in its natural habitat. Of course, an outdoors setting requires special precautions not encoun-tered with an indoors crop; you must be able to avoid detection, both fromlaw enforcement freaks and common freaks, both of whom will take yourweed and probably use it. Of course, one will also arrest you. You mustalso have access to the area to prepare the soil and harvest the crop.There are two schools of thought about starting the seeds. One says youshould start the seedlings for about ten days in an indoor starter box(see the indoor section) and then transplant. The other theory is thatyou should just start them in the correct location. Fewer plants willcome up with this method, but there is no shock of transplant tokill some of the seedlings halfway through. The soil should be preprepared for the little devils by turning itover a couple of times and adding about one cup of hydrated lime persquare yard of soil and a little bit (not too much, now) of good watersoluble nitrogen fertilizer. The soil should now be watered severaltimes and left to sit about one week. The plants should be planted at least three feet apart, getting toogreedy and stacking them too close will result in stunted plants.The plants like some water during their growing season, BUT not toomuch. This is especially true around the roots, as too much water willrot the root system. Grass grows well in corn or hops, and these plants