Been here supporting for a couple months, been lurking almost a year. A little background:
learned how to commercial grow as a youth (14-17) traveling north to Mendo, Eureka areas during trim season. Joined the Army at 17, deployed in 05-06 leaving in 09. Grew maybe 5-8 mire times with friends, doing the 100-300 plant, 3 month shuffle. Yet I always grew with them, using their style, knowledge, systems, and ultimately making it a soulless (Albeit educational) job. It was always a job I loved though. Stopped after paroling and losing my state number in 2013 and worked on my PTSD and heroin addiction.
Fast forward to last year, lost a very good job for an awesome boutique construction company due to COVID and was not supplied EDD due to a technicality. I was tripping. I beat CLCF Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (Full Spectrum Extract high in all cannabinoids had a huge impact but that’s another long ass post for another time) and learned I was epileptic among my health issues. Needless to say the stress was hitting a nerve and I was slowly falling apart one seizure at a time.
I found the DGC in Scripps Mercy Hospital after seizing in the shitter, landing on my face, and cutting off the oxygen to my brain long enough for me to turn blue and my wife to lose her mind. When the paramedics arrived I stopped breathing for 4 mins. They admitted me for 18 days.
Felling hopeless and defeated in my hospital bed, I randomly clicked on a show. I laughed, learned, and felt connected with my roots.
Losing my job in June 2020 happened right around the time Scotty, Dude, Guru, and someone I forgot discussed the nuances of perpetual growing. I invested everything we had into licensing for cultivation and have been wading through the Cal-Cannabis fuckery since. I have grown 3 cycles since last June and have felt such a vast improvement in my life it is hard to put into words. Emotionally it’s cathartic and rewarding. Medically it helps me exponentially.
I owe the DGC, Dude, Scotty, Guru, and the rest of the team an enormous thank you. You truly helped me from one of the darkest places in my life. I am grateful beyond words.
now enough of the corny shit look at these nugs and trikes!!!!!!
Hey man, much respect for posting about this.
I have been smoking since highschool, almost 40 now, but just never started growing seriously until recently. I wish I had found the DGC way sooner. this place is fucking awesome. cool people literally all over the world, connecting over something pure .
like you said, enough with the corny shit, but respect. I think MOST people have been to really dark ass places, and it’s easier to stay quiet than to speak up. I also agree that ever since I got into growing, I find it EXTREMELY cathartic and therapeutic. in addition to the great medicine that comes at the end. lol
anyway I just wanted to say … great post, and man, some beautiful frosty nugs. can’t argue with that.
peace & love
Finish
Thank you family. I honestly was on the fence about posting it… but I love this community and want to be a part of it so I figured if you know me for who I am, then at least you can make an honest, assessment of me. Also, this place literally saved my life, I was at a point with the health issues, addiction, emotional problems, and complete lack of self-worth that I can honestly say I would not be here without the DGC and the help it has provided in catapulting me towards something positive that I lost so long ago.
I appreciate you Finish, and thank you. It feels good to have people in our community that can relate to each others experiences and journey’s (The piano part to “Dont Stop” cued here LMFAO)
This is a great post. Fucking awesome that you are turning it around with the help of weed. I find that growing the shit is almost as therapeutic as smoking it. Keep it growing on brother!!!
Fully agree Rasufa! Thank you for the kind words and awesome post’s, plus the Vader Cat always brings a smile to my face 🙂
Congrats on making it through licensing and 3 cycles in the legal cali market. I’ve heard that can cause its own brand of PTSD.
Almost made it through Redprimo, I have local (San Diego City Council) support and approval. Actually won support from all but 2 members.
Now its all on the state and the newly crowned DCC (Used to be DOA/CC {Department of Agriculture Cal Cannabis} plus 2 other agencies). We (My wife and I) put around 14k into licensing over 9 months ago and STILL haven’t had Cal-Cannabis check our facility to give us state approval.
In the mean time we are ‘Interim’ licensed and will be restricted until these Gilligan’s get their head outta there butts.
So, we have converted 3 rooms for ‘R&D’ and had the sheriff and city inspector check them out so we can at least implement our ideas real world and change or adapt accordingly.
So far we can sell products to 2 distributors which is fucked, it allows THEM to set the market standard and pricing, when they wouldn’t have a product to monopolize WITHOUT US FARMERS.
They don’t even have to put our company name on the packaging lol. That is why they always say have your business plan designed as an elevator pitch because getting all four of five (Or testing if you would rather) license’s mean literally 2.6 Mil together at the end of two years.
You can see the dollar signs in their eyes and the salivating, smh, that’s why people LIKE US need to get these license’s. I do this for the love of it, and we all know THAT shows in the end product.
Making money is a added benefit.