"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
07/26/2016 at 21:27 • Filed to: None
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"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
07/26/2016 at 21:27 • Filed to: None | 4
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I had breakfast with a lawyer whose firm does the business side of ag. They want to merge in my labor practice. Their busiest area is legal weed farming. Apparently, these black market folks want help converting to the legit economy (recreational legalization is expected to pass here in November).
From a professional perspective, it’s interesting work to bring what has been a criminal activity into commercial compliance. These guys are used to paying people with product, which won’t fly in the real world.
Honestly, I think this is going to get taken over fast by existing ag business. Farms that don’t have enough water to grow cotton may have enough to grow a high margin crop like weed. They have ground, and I think people who have been growing surreptitiously are going to end up working for people who know the business but need a new crop that makes sense in this post-drought world. [I drove past the San Luis Reservoir today, and it was almost empty. I remember around 2005 or so having wet winters and seeing the waterline so close to the edge of the Pacheco Pass highway as to make you nervous. That water level is hundreds of feet lower todat, an unfathomable difference in volume from a reservoir of that size ] This ace is not a desert, which is why there has always been farming here. But our rivers have been so diverted and fucked with, and urban areas north and south have grown east so rapidly without sufficient water, that this shit is out of hand.
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We have not addressed water state wide despite massive population growth.
But we are building a train, for fuck’s sake. Sigh.
Rant over.
Slant6
> ImmoralMinority
07/26/2016 at 21:33 |
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One of the reasons stopping me from running away to California after college is that there is no water. I love water, I drink 5 liters a day.
Also emission laws.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> ImmoralMinority
07/26/2016 at 22:21 |
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The City of Arcata, California, is forming a Medical Marijuana Innovation Zone.
Matt Nichelson
> ImmoralMinority
07/26/2016 at 22:59 |
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All I can offer is to say good luck and maybe one day they will get it together over there. I can’t imagine living somewhere that I would have to worry about having enough water.
Your boy, BJR
> ImmoralMinority
07/27/2016 at 00:13 |
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I mean, if you could get connections out of state, somewhere where it’s illegal, like, say, NJ or something, you can make a fuckload of money if they pay you in product, even with having to pay someone for transport. Maybe this is my one side that doesn’t get to talk so much anymore talking, but you do have a chance to make a shitload of untaxed cash here, for something that “doesn’t fly in the real world”. I'd stop balking and start figuring out logistics if I were you.
Sam
> Your boy, BJR
07/27/2016 at 01:23 |
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Or he could get an onion and cast his net into the dark. Pretty much no risk if you aren't an idiot.
DipodomysDeserti
> Matt Nichelson
07/27/2016 at 03:21 |
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Where do you think Cali is going to pull its water from once they're out? It has the highest GDP of any state. If it were a country it would be the 7th largest economy in the world.
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Matt Nichelson
> DipodomysDeserti
07/27/2016 at 08:51 |
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Yeah that’s the thing about it. They have the money to fix the problem if done correctly. Aside from building a ton of desalination plants or piping it from another state, I don’t see very many other options.
haveacarortwoorthree2
> ImmoralMinority
07/27/2016 at 09:18 |
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Are you on your own now or with another firm?