After finishing high school I wanted to go to university. I wasn't sure what I wanted to take, perhaps medicine or biology. I didn't want to go only 4 years, but go all the way and get into research. But money was an issue since I left home before I finished high school at 17 years old (a long story I will not go into here). Big dreams for a little stupid kid. So I started gorilla growing in NS after moving there from Ontario with my old GF which I still talk to today at age 61 Lol. Mostly I grew along the slope of North Mountain in Annapolis Valley with the great help of a few people into the business there who helped with marketing and distribution, and also profited of course.
The best grew I ever did was in an alder swamp. In the spring the water can be up to a foot high, but in the fall I went in with a shovel and made mounds of swamp muck to always be above water level. The following spring I went in with high rubber boots and planted my seedlings. I only visited them a few times, always taking a different route, especially when the water receded during summer. By mid-October they were higher than the alder "trees", and thick with huge buds. It was so freaky, I was like "wholly shit, what do I do now?!" sort of situation. Hahaha
Taking out these plants branch by branch was quite an adventure in itself when it was completely done just before Halloween. I could hear the gun shots of hunters in the bush nearby, and it freaked me out to no end. But no hunter is going to venture into a damn alder swamp in NS with standing water in NS. Lol
It paid for a good part of my undergrad schooling, and later Psilocybe semilanceata (liberty caps) became the main source of income that paid for my graduate school. Once delivering many kilograms of liberty caps to Ontario for Christmas, we got stopped for speeding. I was very nice to the officer about it. He said "well, considering you seem to be an okay guy, I'll just give you a warning this time" trying to hide my nervousness of the wrapped present in the back seat. Hahaha
Edit: There is a dark side to gorilla growing, and that is that some pretty crazy people were involved in the business due to its illegality and a great deal of money was involved. There used to be some serious shit going down, with at least one death I know of. Then again, the number of people murdered (homicide) by any means in Nova Scotia is 6 people per year, and that was out of almost a million people in the province. I think it's around the same today. lol
But honestly, that's the black market I want my government to stamp out, and if they can do that with every other drug, I don't think it's a bad thing to own your own body. Like what the fuck gives our government the right to criminalize us due to what we want to do with our own body during off time? If we pay taxes and go to work able and ready for our leaders like every other person in society otherwise as programmed, shouldn't that be enough if what we do doesn't affect anyone else?
Enjoyed reading your post, and i agree the government does not give a damn about anybody.
No one has ever died from cannabis, but alcohol and tobacco are in the top 3 of major death contributors to the human race.
The vicious circle would stop turning....if it did, hospitals woulds be empty, doctors, coroners, police, the list goes on, if everyone smoked weed and not tobacco and stopped drinking alcohol in excess, well the human population would be much bigger, anyway that's my interpretation of it.
If i was president i would ban tobacco and make weed legal, tobacco companies...my god if i had a time machine...
Haven't heard anyone getting lung cancer from weed, strange that..
In regards to guerilla growing, there is indeed a dark side...but there is a dark side to everything, Yin and Yang.
Where I'm from, if your caught in someone's plot, expect to get a round from a 30.06 from someone high up in a chopper, big money, big guns..big trouble..
Know of a good way to get real blood and bone into a plot?
Don't freak out its not from a human, if you want to know I'll say it here, but there will be some people who will want admin to delete what i have written...lets just say 11pounds from one single plant is easily possible...
The DNM's have a positive side amigo, there are people out there with zero connections, but they can get what they need, medicine, weed, etc.
There aren't many good egg's in the game, my crew are fantastic, but not to be fucked with.
Just remember when you go to harvest just take the tops, because you will not be able to carry everything in the one go, next day is when you grab the rest.
You know there are guys who get paid to fly and find people's plot's, their called Plot Busters.
Mate of mine used to be one, me personally i wouldn't do to others what i wouldn't want done to me.
But as he says, if you don't rip their them then they will rip yours, but again i simply don't like that way of thinking, everyone deserves a chance, it's a lot of hard work, hours of labor to get it right, i just couldn't do it.
Watch out for planes and choppers.