While have-not states like Kentucky are burning their grow-ops, have-more states like Washington and Colorado are taxing them

This photo-essay at Bloomberg is ironic on several levels.

First off, it's got great thought-provoking photos like this one;



Yup, that's a law-enforcement official dousing a pile 'o pot with gasoline, the better to set it aflame.

Dude! If you wanna burn weed, stick it in a pipe or something!

What a waste!

So here's some food for thought. Have you ever thought that the reason some states (like, just to arbitrarily pick a couple of high-performance states out of the air at random; Colorado and Washington) habitually show up at the high end of the quality-of-life indices, and other states (again, completely random; Kentucky and West Virginia) habitually show up at the bottom, might have something to do with the average IQ of the denizens of those states?

Now I don't mean to offend my relations in Kentucky, but they got a lot of somewhat dopey folks among them, which I think might be at least partially the result of a) cousins marrying cousins, and b) marrying at age 15.

Meanwhile, over in your have-more states of Colorado and Washington, instead of spending money fighting the weed 'o wisdom, they're MAKING money taxing it! Oddly enough, these states also vastly out-perform the have-nots in educational achievement etc.

Coincidence?

I think not...

This is what Darwin was talking about.

You too can make $100k a year growing marijuana in your garden shed

But first you have to have the right set-up.

That 8x10 garden shed is only the beginning.

Then you need your off-grid power sources to drive the latest LED grow lights. The beauty of that technology is that it takes way less power than the grow lamps of days gone by.

In fact, if you are limiting yourself to making 100K and you're not a greedy shit, you can probably run a bank of LED lights off your regular power bill without anybody noticing. They'll just figure you got a bigger big-screen TV.

You do want to be indoors though. Colorado and Washington notwithstanding, the warondrugs crowd is still flying infrared sniffer planes over your property to find out what's what in your garden.

And for fuck's sakes, if you're going to grow the weed o' wisdom in the great outdoors, grow it on your neighbor's property, not on your own.

That's how they been rollin' in all the historic hemp hollers in Kentucky forever. Bubba be growin' his stuff on Junior's plot; Junior be growin' his stuff on Bubba's plot for the last fifty years, and if ever either one get's busted, they can righteously feign innocence.

It's a concept known as "planning ahead".