A<\/span> day in my life begins and ends the same way as any other.<\/p>\n I go to the window. I stare, wistfully and imploringly, at a few spindly and scraggly cannabis plants struggling for survival. These are the survivors, grasping and gasping for energy from the limited winter sun (waxing or waning, at this time of year, it\u2019s hard to tell the difference).<\/p>\n I lean in to the healthiest and hardiest and inhale. Terpenes<\/a> bearing hints of pine, tar, skunk and oil tumble into my nose. The small smile on my face wavers as I straighten back up and ponder the rest. I wonder what I did wrong to allow these plants to succumb to spider mites and whatever else it is that results in random cannabis plant death. I reflect with regret on the yellow leaves I did not prune, on the hot days I forgot to water. I ask what I can do better today, and wonder if, by mid-December, it\u2019s not already too late for my 2017 marijuana harvest.<\/p>\n Mark my words: I am no green thumb. Nor am I a freedom fighter, defying convention and the law to make a political statement in a window box. I put 12 cannabis plants in my front window, overlooking my well-trafficked street in San Francisco\u2019s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, because I can.<\/p>\n In California, cultivating some amount of medical marijuana has been\u00a0my legal right for about two decades.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n However, cultivating cannabis is a right subject to limitations, as well as some interpretation \u2014 and, in some cases, outright discouragement from the authorities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Nonetheless, it is a right cannabis advocates should feel empowered to exercise, especially when the law is on your side. Still, doing so will requires some examination, into the personal as well as the political.<\/p>\n You must consider the details <\/a>of your living situation. I am fortunate not to live in government-funded housing or in a condominium complex with rules against cannabis plants. I am lucky as well to have an accommodating lease. My landlord doesn\u2019t appear to have noticed that I grow cannabis plants, and he probably wouldn\u2019t care if he did \u2014 and were he to challenge me, I have both California medical marijuana law and adult use legalization to fall back upon.<\/p>\n Not everyone<\/a>\u00a0is in such an accommodating scenario. Look around the country: Most of the newest states to get medical cannabis do not enjoy home-grow rights like I do on the West Coast. (Notably and inexplicably, home grow is not a right enjoyed by Washingtonians<\/a>, unless they have a medical-marijuana recommendation).<\/p>\n Those of us in states with medical laws that do not allow for home grow, including\u00a0Florida<\/a>, New York State, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, must remind their local lawmaker why this is a half-measure that must be changed. With illegal grows, the risk of crime<\/a> and fire increases.<\/p>\n Plus, given that plenty of people grow cannabis regardless of legality, encouraging citizens to cultivate a few plants of their own discourages the black market. And in a troubling development, some areas in so-called \u201cfree-for-all\u201d states like California are doing what they can to abrogate the rights of citizens to cultivate at home. Some cities and counties in the country\u2019s best climate for growing cannabis are banning outdoor plots. Others are demanding citizens\u00a0who want to grow in their own homes register with the police department<\/a> \u2014 because who among us doesn\u2019t want to inform the cops we\u2019re doing things, in the privacy of our own homes, that they hate? Other cities are requiring home growers to pay for costly and unnecessary commercial agriculture water hookups.<\/a><\/p>\n Even those of us living in a \u201cfree to grow\u201d zone may not necessarily be aware that they have such rights \u2014 or perhaps are still unwilling or too wary to exercise those rights. That\u2019s normal. We are the products of generations that feared and shunned the cannabis plant. Even those people that love marijuana in all of its forms often chose to distance themselves from the plant, because too close an association has meant bad things. Breaking free of such political stigmas is a powerful act. The liberation can be intoxicating \u2014 but there can be a risk, too. These are concerns you must carefully weigh yourself.<\/p>\n When my partner saw my garden and raised the specter of eviction, I puffed up my chest and expounded upon Prop. 64\u2019s six-plants-per-person rule. When she kindly pointed out I had 12 plants, which is more than six, and she was not going to be associated with any home-garden scenario she hadn\u2019t signed off on, I had to gently remind her that Article 33 of the city health code allows a medical-marijuana patient (which I am) several dozen plants. Therefore, I was, in fact,\u00a0short<\/em>\u00a0of my allotment.<\/p>\n If you want to start growing at your own home, these are the conversations you must be prepared to have, and I recommend that you do have them before you bring your six plants home. Only then will you be able to discover, firsthand, how much you know about policy is inversely related to how much you know about horticulture.<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/strong> do you grow six plants legally at home?<\/p>\n The post The 12 Days of Kushmas: 6 Plants a-Flowering<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
On the sixth day of Kushmas, my true love gave to me: six plants a flowering! Of course, my true love has a living situation that allows the freedom to cultivate a few plants in their backyard or window box \u2014 the sort of freedom that adult-use legalization doesn\u2019t alwaysContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2695,50,5,306,2764],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22080,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22079\/revisions\/22080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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