The Future Of Cannabis Production

in #weedcash5 years ago

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Growing flowers

is significantly cheaper in Columbia. If you doubt this just ask Monterey California’s once thriving rose growers. The flower growing industry has moved south, to Columbia, and the cannabis growers, that have only recently filled these empty greenhouses, are looking to do the same. Grupo Flor, the Salinas based cannabis company that led the wave of legal cannabis growing in Monterey, plans to avoid the fate of the rose growers. They’re getting ready to plant their first crop just outside of the Columbian city of Cali. They realize that production, for the global cannabis industry of the future, will not be centered in the US or Canada. It’s just to expensive to produce in the cold latitudes.
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Another big investor

in Columbian cannabis is Northern Swan Holdings, who has nearly a million square feet of greenhouses and extraction facilities currently under construction in the country. While Canadian companies struggle to produce at a cost of $2 CAD per gram, in Columbia they claim they can do it for 50 cents a gram or less.
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One of the top 3

North American cannabis companies, Tilray, said in response to the Columbian investments “Our state-of-the-art facility in Portugal is well-positioned to efficiently and sustainably cultivate indoors and outdoors with room for expansion to service the global market.”

Whether it’s Columbia, Portugal, or some other country with a warmer climate, what we know for sure is that the bulk of production for the global cannabis market will not be in the US or Canada. Another thing we know for sure is it won’t be grown with a love of health, freedom and community. It won’t be grown like it has been for so long in the black(free) market.
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Just like with our food,

there is a way we can protect ourselves, our families, and our communities, from the environmental, economic, and physical harm of corporate cannabis, #growyourown or #knowyourfarmer. While there’s little chance of stopping large globalized corporations from controlling the bulk of production, ( just like they do with our food supply), we can make choices in our daily lives to remove our support by not buying their products. Grow your own or buy local whenever possible.

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This is one reason people need to support the local farmer. People always want to save money, which I understand. But there are some dire consequences to our wal mart culture. Factory farms, pesticides, round up, etc etc.

Oh yeah i am sure this will happen. I actually live here in Salinas, and seeing all these once empty greenhouses fill up with cannabis, is very interesting.

I remember you said you lived there. I remember you mentioning the greenhouses. That’s why this story was interesting to me. I thought you might find it interesting too✌️💚😎

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I won't be surprised if the big commercial growers will be growing their own patented strains to try to capture the larger markets.

For international markets I'm sure as we can't export Cannabis...

But locally? No way will these growers compare to the Oregon market.

Which I'll be honest the quality is still falling. Price drops so does the effort.

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