SPedigrees
Garden Addicted
Recreational marijuana just became legal in my state (Vermont). (Medical has been legal for some time.) I see no problem with people using it to relax. Certainly these people are less obnoxious (and dangerous) than those who use alcohol to excess, and I fail to see why anyone should be vilified for using any drug in moderation to relax and de-stress. However, I'm more interested in this plant as medical, because my husband has stage 4 melanoma, and some promising research has been done on marijuana's ability to retard the growth of melanoma. We all (the hubby, myself, and a few close friends) quit smoking (tobacco) in 1969, and also stopped smoking pot at the same time because it felt wrong to be inhaling smoke of any kind when we had given up cigarettes. I still can't believe that inhaling smoke of any kind can be good for the lungs. For my husband now, I would probably brew marijuana as a tea.
While recreational marijuana (in small quantities) has become legal, buying and selling it has not. I think it will be during the next legislative session, but for the time being it is permitted only to gift it to one another. So I'm going to be planting seeds given to me by a friend.
The funny thing is that back in the 1990's I tucked away 3 seeds from the stash of a friend, folded them in a kleenex and stored them in a jar, on a whim, and then forgot all about them over the decades. With the legislative news I remembered them and planted them this spring without much expectation that they could germinate after so much time, and yet one actually did. Unfortunately this past spring the weather was unrelentingly cold, and while my started seeds on the (unheated) back porch were never exposed to frost, they also did not receive the warm temperatures that many plants require to grow. My one pot plant withered and died, along with many other seedlings from geraniums to poppies, plants that are usually fail-proof. It was a weird and discouraging spring. Even sunflowers and summer squash planted directly in the ground on June 1st failed to germinate, and these have always been sure crops. Looking back, I believe that if I had grown that marijuana plant indoors as a house plant, it might have survived, and it would have been a gardening miracle. I'm still astonished that it germinated at all.
While recreational marijuana (in small quantities) has become legal, buying and selling it has not. I think it will be during the next legislative session, but for the time being it is permitted only to gift it to one another. So I'm going to be planting seeds given to me by a friend.
The funny thing is that back in the 1990's I tucked away 3 seeds from the stash of a friend, folded them in a kleenex and stored them in a jar, on a whim, and then forgot all about them over the decades. With the legislative news I remembered them and planted them this spring without much expectation that they could germinate after so much time, and yet one actually did. Unfortunately this past spring the weather was unrelentingly cold, and while my started seeds on the (unheated) back porch were never exposed to frost, they also did not receive the warm temperatures that many plants require to grow. My one pot plant withered and died, along with many other seedlings from geraniums to poppies, plants that are usually fail-proof. It was a weird and discouraging spring. Even sunflowers and summer squash planted directly in the ground on June 1st failed to germinate, and these have always been sure crops. Looking back, I believe that if I had grown that marijuana plant indoors as a house plant, it might have survived, and it would have been a gardening miracle. I'm still astonished that it germinated at all.
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