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‘Dead Skunk’ Stench from Marijuana Farms Outrages Californians

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Re: ‘Dead Skunk’ Stench from Marijuana Farms Outrages Californians

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Post by i_am_nomad »

hendzen wrote: post #17
awakeasleep wrote: post #15

Homeowners have a relatively simple way to fight back! Simply grow some hemp plants, and kill your females. High quality marijuana production requires the female plants do not get fertilized, which means an absence of male plants. Once fertilized, cannabis puts its energy into seed instead of increased flowering. Wind and insects will distribute the pollen to your neighbors, and the plants will start making seeds ins…

This sounds like a great way to get murdered.

If that's true, then that sounds like a great reason to ban cannabis cultivation.

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Post by hprotagonist »

activated carbon ventilation filters, maybe? The world’s biggest sploof.

open-air farming is harder to handle. I grew up a few miles away from a pig farm, and late august was unavoidably...special. You get used to it, but the first hot end of summer day was a salient experience.

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Post by StrictDabbler »

wwweston wrote: post #10

I've got some buyers regret over supporting various decriminalization and legalization pushes merely over how common the smell has become from the increased exposure to individual smokers in So Cal. I never considered what it'd be like to live near production. I still believe in the principle that the criminal justice system is a poor avenue for addressing most issues related to drug use. But I think the jury is stil…

Don't worry. Experience from Washington and Colorado shows that over time smokers move to vaping and concentrate because it's vastly more convenient than carrying a bunch of plant matter around.

The vape cartridges and the concentrate wax are essentially scent-free. Certainly less smelly than nicotine and recreational non-drug vapes.

Industrial production will move out into the country as with any agricultural or livestock production that has a smell and you'll never notice it. The shit smell of a beef ranch dwarfs any odor you'll ever get from a pot production facility.

Cannabis doesn't have a lot of societal overhead.

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Post by chipperyman573 »

djtriptych wrote: post #11

James Madison University is located a few miles from a dog food factory and the entire town smells like it. Also dead skunk is how you know it's good so... shrug

I don't smoke, so I may be wrong, but isn't skunk smell a bad thing?

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Post by beat »

hendzen wrote: post #17
awakeasleep wrote: post #15

Homeowners have a relatively simple way to fight back! Simply grow some hemp plants, and kill your females. High quality marijuana production requires the female plants do not get fertilized, which means an absence of male plants. Once fertilized, cannabis puts its energy into seed instead of increased flowering. Wind and insects will distribute the pollen to your neighbors, and the plants will start making seeds ins…

This sounds like a great way to get murdered.

These are ordinary legal businesses. They don't murder people, any more than liquor store owners shoot at each other.

Not resorting to extra-legal means to settle business disputes is one of the big advantages of decriminalization.

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Post by sgillen »

city41 wrote: post #12
pessimizer wrote: post #7

You have to hope that after legalization producers will stop competing on how strong it reeks, since we'll all know it's real and won't be evaluating on the fly. Problem is that it might take generations to breed out the smellier=stronger thing. Somebody here has the power to start branding based on being strong but not smelly; get on it first, you'll find a huge market.

Will pot consumers like that? I think marijuana smells fantastic, I doubt I'm alone on that. It's an acquired taste similar to beer and coffee. This would be like if breweries stopped making IPAs because some people find them too strong.

To be fair the IPA craze does seem to be dying down a bit.

Smelly weed isn’t going anywhere, but I’m thinking there will be a lot of smokers who prefer a milder scent and the market will provide it.

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Post by whyonearth »

gattilorenz wrote: post #19
whyonearth wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or sued.

On what legal basis?

I don't think there's much precedent, it's a complex emerging legal question: https://www.wweek.com/cannabis/2016/10/04/why-hemp-and-marij...

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Post by beat »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #24
djtriptych wrote: post #11

James Madison University is located a few miles from a dog food factory and the entire town smells like it. Also dead skunk is how you know it's good so... shrug

I don't smoke, so I may be wrong, but isn't skunk smell a bad thing?

The skunk smell is generally a Good Thing for the unsmoked flowers. The actual smoke smells different.
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