Weed Grower Quality Control Tech interview-Steve
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Steve, a quality control technician at a marijuana farm in Adelanto, California. Here’s an earlier video with Steve and his friend, Merle Allin on a different subject: • Serial Killer Memorabi...
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Man, this was far more interesting of an interview than I imagined. Great one.
I feel you could have walked out the room and turn d off rhe lights and he would have kept going 😂
Lol true
Some say he is still talking about it
I like that tho he’s passionate abt what he does as a cannabis grower I always get a little talkative too on the subject bc it’s just one of them things ik way to well😂
@@420Lethal Yea, and I don’t know nothing about that industry, it was pretty informative
Broooo I literally just did that! He kept going once I got back! 🤣
I worked in the weed industry in socal doing exactly what this guy did. Been in LA and Adelanto dispensaries. Everything he is saying is true and what I've been trying to say about it still being a shady business even after legalization. So glad you could have this guy on and explain it so well for everybody. Thank you for another interesting interview Mark.
Only "shady" because it isn't federally legal, and in a lot of states it is taxed three to four times more than alcohol. If you aren't a multimillion dollar corporation, it's almost impossible to make money. Of course they are going elsewhere to make their 🥜. You would do the same
You’re silly and small minded. I’ve been in the industry for a while now in multiple states, both legal and legacy. It’s in a weird space sure but this is one of the most small minded, narcissistic interviews on this channel. This is in no way a good representation of the industry as a whole
@@RabidDisposition100%
Crazy we need more people to speak out like this, I work in the industry myself, fully legal, and under the table. All of it is sketch no matter if it “legal” or not
I used to work on the equipment side, and its crazy how scary grower "knowledge" was in so many ways. We tried to help in so many ways, but not everyone listens. Water filtration, air filtration, to me, are the scariest on the growing side.
Feel like I'm still working at a gas station and I just took my break outside and some random dude saw me hit my cart and took that as an opportunity to talk about the weed industry my entire break . Has happened quite a few times lol
I’m 65 and I run 6 miles a day a swim 2 miles at least a day! I smoke pot instead of drink and I love it because I’m super hyper and it calms me like a cocktail!❤
I'm a naturally hyper person too! Can't do coffee at all. But weed helps me settle down at the end of the day
i bet you swim stoned
I workout stoned. I got to sleep stoned. I get stoned when I wake up.
I'm not proud of it, but they didn't call me "Richie Pot" since high school for nothing.
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@@tristarperfecta1061yessss
Found this interview interesting. Steve is pretty passionate about what he does and good for him.
I'm a pothead...and I get things done all the time...have a successful job...and grow my own weed...it's legal up here in canada
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Youre not the norm. Most potheads are numb & dumb
It can be done but maybe your life and health would be a little better off if you put it in the past.
He's very enthusiastic & knowledgeable about marijuana. He cares about purity of the product & customer service instead of focusing on profits like the rich owners. His complaints could be said about a lot of industries that deliver a product to the consumer. Mass production lessens the quality & options of what the consumer gets. He sounds like he idolizes the utopia of making the best avail like those who have a ethos small farm vs. a huge manufacturing. One cares a lot about the animals vs. the big prod. of just moving it through to profit.
Another example of what happens when the government gets involved.
So like... Craft grow
@@marylougeorge9890
Many people vote for their own demise for the “greater good of humanity.” They want the govt. to regulate everything from what kind of car should be driven to what kind of light bulb we should use. As if humans aren’t capable of living their lives as they see fit. These are the same people who ruin their own states with the way they vote and move to other certain states. They want the govt. to fix everything they can’t take care of.
Steve is the weed whisperer-- its fascinating to see someone who's passionate about his work. I have no tolerance for pot, still enjoyed learning about it.
Agree about his passion for it! Reminds me of much older generations in a nice way.
“Pot” lol
@@dexterhughes9307not everyone is a millennial. It’s pot to others. Those who call it pot don’t expect free shit in life and actually work for a living. “LOL” Since “lol” is a thing now. A stupid thing.
that little comment shouldn't warrant this reaction @@valerie7008
@@valerie7008 So you're claiming every millennial expects free shit and doesn't work? That's pretty rich.
He’s the coolest guy he knows
lmfao he might be the only guy he knows
The weed has been Weaponized with how strong it is for a generation that never smoked before!
Yep. It's keeping them so stoned, they don't know what gender they are.
The dirty chemicals scare me..
Have been sold dirty weed from green society.. sad it's only 4 profit
He didn’t say a single incorrect thing about the industry! Glad he let em have it without holding back! Respect Steve. 😂side note I did some time in Adelanto 😂
He’s clueless
@@dabbindogs2690 well he’s not talking about super well run spots,
He’s talking out of his ass. Obviously tooted up as well.
@@RustyGraffitiReviewsno he’s clueless and absolutely full of shit
Sick Necro hat, I also am a grower, have been basically forever, its crazy to see the market drop so much because of legislation and so much more weed be open and accessable and cheaper, it makes it worth just growing yourself
With psychopath hockey jersey... he lk the wild shiz
This was my fav interview. More guests like this please Mark 🙏🏼!!!
Um ok
Please mark more guests like this!
Seriously??? Have you seen other of Mark’s interviews? This dude is awful 😂
Thanks for confirming for this OG smoker, I will never buy government weed.
Support local farmers or grow your own. Same with food. Corporate only cares about money.
It's not government weed. Until it's federally legalized with every control put in place, it's going to be a shady industry on the state-legalized front. However, once it's federally legalized, it will not be so great for the end user, especially personal cultivators.
@@ev25zv is it taxed? Is it regulated by the state? Yes, it’s government weed.
I feel this guy and 100% accurate. Been growing for 15 years and I got to the point I left the industry and just grow my own medicine. The legalization of cannabis has hurt the quality of bud, period.
"medicine" man i've had enough with you grown up pot heads. Pot is for fucking teenagers, get mad
When I say this people think I’m crazy… when weed was illegal I was getting some GAS!! What happened to all the real Kush strains?! The haze and sour D strains too!! Now it’s all these gelato strains which are weak af. Don’t get me wrong it’s still some pretty good bud but no where compared to the real gas from back in the days. People just grow from quantity now to supply these shops! I knew it was over when my friend came back from California with like 15 different strains and they’re all garbage!!
all kinda cute names and shit lmaoooooo. shit went pop and now its garbage
right real 1hitter quitter each strain different type of high way more smell too master kush bubba kush la confidential afghani@@cvgodd1432
@@cvgodd1432cookies gelato and sherb happened
The good old energizing sativas are also not grown due to the long flowering times required, it's more profitable to grow strains that mature in 8 to 12 weeks as opposed to true sativas that take 18 weeks up to 6 months. Red Congo is one of the few energizing sativas I have found in the legal market. Great Interview!
True, and IMO allowing them to grow spreading out like 14 feet tall outdoor is best.
@@goodredmanagreed on the outdoor,living soil nerd here but the wind and ladders suck lol
Golden goat and Durbin poison have been two sativas I thoroughly enjoyed for their energizing effects. I didn't know sativas take longer to mature that's dope
@@hudsonpallett6184 The first time I grew Malawi I let it go the recommended 22 weeks. Can't do that at the dispo.
and less yield too.. but most of the medical properties are from sativas and not indicas .. the industry focused on getting high as possible and messed everything up@@hudsonpallett6184
My brother was a pot head I’m the severe asthmatic who never messed with anything.
He worked 9-5 as an engineer and did very well by his family. I realize there’s all kinds of potheads. I just never had any idea of the depths this goes into.
The smartest most accomplished people I know including Professors, Engineers, CPAs, dr. lawyers all potheads!
Interesting. Cannabis is actually a bronchodilator and it relieves my asthma. I'm not saying it will work that way for everyone, but for me it helps.
Get about a bong hit from him, boil about a cup of milk with that in it, then put it in your coffee and have a great day
Fun fact it helps asthmatics especially edibles and tinctures. It opens up the little airways in your lungs and expands your red blood cells to allow for oxygen to be consumed/used
@@archieg8009 I had asthma using my inhaler everyday, 6 years ago I started smoking thc and havent used the inhaler since.
I totally get what he means when saying weed seems more evil now. The whole culture is just not the same anymore. It’s so lame now
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I've always known that dispensaries have bum weed. Being a weed grower I know quality when I see it and rarely saw it from 75% of dispensaries. Glad someone came out and said it.
Great interview, nice to hear from people in the industry what business norms are
Interview? Did he even ask any questions lol
Horrible info. It’s more about the guy than the industry.
He's literally only a trimmer talking about what he sees. The bottom tier of the operation, they only call them when they need them at harvest time. He has no industry insights.
Yeah speaking from my limited experience of 3 years in a legal cultivation he’s way tf off. Sounds a lot like the trimmers/post harvest who think they know what’s what in the grow rooms but in reality are the lowest on the totem pole
Ricky and Julian need this guy.
One of the most famous weed smokers of all time, Bob Marley, really proved that lazy theory wrong. Bob jogged for miles every morning and toured relentlessly for abot 15 years even when he was riddled with cancer. And played soccer constantly. He supported thousands of poor people from his community with the money he made, never spending any on luxury for himself. If you're lazy in the first place then it's will make you more of a sloth though.
The lazy ones were lazy long before the pot!
@@stinkletoes8285Agree.
He got cancer yet he used weed daily. Hmmm...
@@nhlibraYes, he got diagnosed with a cancer under his toenail . He was advised to have it amputated and contrary to popular belief he didn't refuse to do so because of his religious beliefs but because he thought it would affect the intense way he danced during performance's. A tragic decision. But he did NOT get cancer from smoking herb.
@@nhlibra weed doesn't prevent or kill cancer, it alleviates the symptoms (and those of aggressive treatments, like chemo).
People are getting ripped off by that store called "Cookies" Paying $120 for 3.5 grams, The store is in 3 states now! Makes me sick! Here in Colorado right next to the Four corners I can get "Bottom Shelf" Weed for $50 an Ounce (28 Grams) that is good enough to get high off a couple hits.
No idea why people would go through these designer Weed stores? It's all the same in the end!
Also I think he is right, The High IS different now days, That or as we turn into Adults the high just isn't as good? Weed used to be like a hard drug to me when I was young, I would get Euphoria from it, Now you almost need a Xanax WITH the weed so you don't have an existential crisis.
Not sure why anyone would go into a dispensary when you can just cultivate your own.
The high is definitely way different. The high i got in the 90’s is NOT the same. This new shit is STRONG AF. 🤣
@@ev25zv I have a few seeds left from YEARS ago because I can't find seeds in any of the Weed I buy. Either way to grow Weed like the kind I get at the Shop? Psssh looking at hundreds maybe even into the thousands for proper grow equipment.
For me living in Colorado there is actually an inflation of weed to the point where they are damn near giving it away. Don't get me started on Hash......Just got 5 Grams of Strawberry cough Rosin for $30 and sh&t it made me actually see colors.
I live 100ft away from a store with DIRT CHEAP prices.....I would love to buy some seeds but not from these D-bags that charge you $100 a seed online,
This 35% THC weed is too strong, you can hallucinate, the high lasts over 4 hours and makes one lose their balance. Don't know how anyone can drive on it. I quit for good.
@@astridlabodhisattva1098 Well, yes, don't do shots of vodka if shots of beer are going to put you on your ass. And don't ever drive on any mind altering substance
Getting ladybugs to get rid of the aphids, then getting mantises to get rid of the lady bugs😆
That was comical.
You think bee and wasp stings are bad but lady bug bites are the most painful.
@@catholiccrusader5328 🤨
I've never experienced that and didn't even know that the ladies could bite.
@Broskisnowski
Lady's poop too ya know.
Ladybugs are pointless and expensive.
Look into living soil instead of throwing away your money.
(Or just send it to me lol.
Have a kid who needs braces.)
@@williemasterofdestruction5339aphids can still live in living soil
This guy sounds like he really knows what he is talking about. Thanks.
are you being sarcastic💗
hardly
He sounds like hes on speed
I hope this is sarcasm. 😳
He’s bitching about the Mexicans making more money than he is. Maybe if he snipped the plants faster he’d have a good paying job. He acts like his job is so important. Carrying a bag of weed acting like if he drops it, it’s going to shatter like porcelain. He’s a 🤡 pot head who will never have a normal and decent job. He can make $200,000/year as a power lineman but yet transports weed from one place to another for )20/hr. 😆👍👍 like his job is special and so important. I do Instacart and pull in $35/hr delivering groceries. 🤣🤣🤣 I at least feed people while he gets people high as long as he doesn’t drop the fragile bag of weed. What a loser.
Cannabis is increasingly correlated with the onset and/or exacerbation of anxiety, depressive, stress, bipolar, psychotic and schizo-affective disorders.
definitely dissociative disorders
No, it's just that it's required now by law that everybody has to have an invented medical condition for attention points. I don't know why that's a law, but it is. Pot has nothing to do with people's invented medical conditions.
This guy is speeding
@@ChadwickTheChad
Interesting. You'll probably get push-back on this one from the social media shit parade.
@@nhlibra I'm counting on it.
Marijuana has been used for medicinal purposes for decades, it should have been legalized for the general population decades ago.
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😊decades really???
It's been used medicinally for longer than modern humans have existed
Medicinal, You mean like how it cured Marleys cancer?
Decades? "The use of cannabis originated in central Asia or western China. Cannabis has been used for its alleged healing properties for millennia. The first documented case of its use dates back to 2800 BC, when it was listed in the Emperor Shen Nung's (regarded as the father of Chinese medicine) pharmacopoeia."
@@karenfryberger4260 I just said that because in the 80’s I started working with cancer patients who needed it to tolerate chemotherapy treatments.
Great watch. Personally, managing and being on a cultivation team for a bud company, harvesting 100+ lbs a week, and finding out all the industry bullshit was one of the worst jobs I've ever had.
Living the dream they say
@@Aj00047lmao it ain’t the dream sadly consumers don’t know the shit we have to go through
@@williamsherman2776 am i wrong though, was not that the saying “back in the day” when we gladly sprayed ipm without ppe…?
@ThePuzzlur what company are you sad trimmer for? You ok little guy? The managing would come after being on cultivation and the 100lbs/wk is about 7 hrs of harvest time
@@nauxjuan people still trim weed? Im contracted for my genetics lol.
Sounds conservative when he said he would rather have US citizens have a job rather than someone that comes illegal. Love it truth
Lol "conservative" corporations are why we exported all our jobs to china
He could also just be thinking about trying to make a business being as beneficial as possible to the community it is operating in. There is a tinge of xenophobia to the whole concept, but I don’t think it’s any different than wanting to keep your industries and the subsequent jobs they provide within your own state or country. operating within your state or country. Make a new mistake, there is a reason why these people are hiring basically temp services out of central American countries to do the work. I doubt that it is because they want to provide opportunities to people less fortunate than themselves. They’re probably saving a lot of money on having to pay into the Unemployment fund, having to pay into Social Security, People with legitimate work permits, will pay taxes to California in the United States as far as I know, but judging from the constant reminder that this is a huge money business, you have to realize that they’re doing it for some reason other than convenience or altruism.
Farms of all sorts hire migrant workers because it is cheaper than hiring locally , also most U.S citizens that do get hired can’t handle the job and tend to get lazy and still expect the pay.
While migrant farmers who’ve been doing the type of work a lot longer can get the job done at a faster pace and less complaints. Unless the employer is a shitty person.
@@kriscarrillo6434 We aren’t lazy we know we should be making more. Any idea how many of us do manual labor and can’t afford to go to the doctor? Outsourcing our work is the sign of a shitty greedy employer. I’ve always been fast at my job, I’ve got great work ethics but it’s not helping my retirement.
This is America, we have rights and pretending people aren’t greedy by outsourcing work doesn’t help the cause.
And whoever said it was a conservative thought, it’s not. I don’t think anyone would ever call me conservative.
Let’s make this country great again and stop making excuses for corporate greed.
A shitty employer outsources labor to keep more profits for himself.
I don’t know what this “if” thing is about.
Grow your own weed independently. Its a plant. Literally comes from seed. Dont rely on weed for income. Almost all issues gone. As long as you are actally capable of growing plants
There's a huge level of satifaction that comes with growing as well..
Some people really have no clue when it comes to nurturing and growing healthy plants to maturity.
Also, they can smoke all day but in their minds, growing it is taking it to the next step which is to them too far.
As a stoner that’s lived in the IE LA and SD. He’s speaking facts.
Where the seshes at in sd?
@@juliovaldez3220 try hitting up OB farmers market and try to tap in
@@juliovaldez3220right where they need to be 😂
Most things are fine in moderation, but getting as high as humanly possible all the time and basing your whole personality off of that is a bad idea. Everyone has to find their own way though.
How many black lives have been lost and completely destroyed due to unfair sentencing surrounding Marijuana? Millions…. 🤔 when you have the complexion for protection
Cool story now go destroy cities lol
Too many black lives have been destroyed over something that should have been legalized decades ago.
@@GruntHumorIt is always someone like you who is waiting around to bring negativity to each and every story surrounding a minority.
@@ow3wells
I’m sorry but to be fair all of the rioting a looting in the past couple years have all been done my minorities. The strangest part being that they choose their own neighborhoods as targets.
@ow3wells bruh imma minority and the majority of our issues are self inflicted. But dare to say otherwise and you get called an Uncle Tom for speaking outta turn. Until we fix us we will never get respect.
Don’t do drugs, legal or illegal, but this was super interesting.
I didn’t realize the depths of making good weed and realizing how shady it is when it comes to giving the dispensaries the mediocre products.
Just like Catnip is a drug to your cat but won't do anything to us? No plant is a DRUG, The only reason we call a plant a Drug is because it has an effect on a living Biological creature, Otherwise it would be Oregano again. See the Logic here?
Ohhhh yeahhh..I imagine it's just like anything else. It was a very interesting interview though..some stuff I knew... some, not so much.
dont do life please....life is bad for you
No.... Living soil all the way!
If not into such stuffs, I bet you like to eat tho... Nutritious food?
Not some garbage grown in a controlled environment, pumped full of tons of crap...
Look up Elaine Ingham.
Her soil science is helping farmers around the world.
(My tomatoes,peaches etc are delicious and use less water and zero inorganic fertilizer.)
plus the big boys in Cali are all suing each other which is hilarious
so glad i buy from a small batch craft grower.... never seen a bug or even a seed for that matter even tho at this point id love to get a seed of any of the buds i get these days everything is super fuego
and im in NJ, so the dispos suck 10x harder
I was a pretty large grower in Michigan and all the dispensaries and the industrial growers screwed everyone over. I had to close them down and sell all the equipment. Its not the fun thing it used to be. Its a cut throat business and very corpatized.
Steve rockin the D3
love his passion for growing.
I think Mark spoke like 3 times in this video. Steve's knowledge is very insightful.
He has a lot of misinformation
@sallyhead6739 interesting! I'm curious on your thoughts!
This guy is the one stoner in your group who literally never shuts up.
Loves to hear himself
Let the other guy speak. Am I right?
He’s tryna air out sesh’s in ca😂 not for the community
Sheriff's in uniform walking into production and then walking out carrying goodie bags?
My first guess would be extortion
which would be very corrupt and hypocritical knowing the same people paid to harass and shackle you are also getting their own cut and partaking on the side.
@@TheHawkKnows
I don't discriminate against people for use.
But it's a different story when those who will hassle you under legal force also have their own recreational involvement.
Pounds for 1600 is why dispensaries aren't making any money. But for consumers, it's where the prices should be.
Wow Steve is a very eloquent guy. I enjoyed this episode a lot, very informative!
This guy is speaking the TRUTH! So tired of the lowly bogers who live in the non legal states who think its all fricken wonderland. Legalization of rec has brought in so much crime related to other drugs. Its a dirty industry and the weed is very expensive not to mention the tax!
The tax is ridiculous.
@@manzer41 Its big business like anything else but they build a fantasy for the stupids.
The state or county definitely ruined the cannibis industry when they manipulated the vote to make it recreational. The medicinal days in SoCal were as good as it gets and now it’s a corrupt shit show.
That's not what he said at all 😂😂
or grow your own in a legal state.
My buddy is a third generation grower. That man voted against legalization. He thought it was the worst thing that possibly could happen.
He's a trimmer, thats literally the lowest rung in the operation. Ain't no way he's calling anybody out on anything or giving orders they're a dime-a-dozen. Respectfully
yeah at best, he full of shit, he most likely is the janitor
Glad that the truth about the weed industry after legalization is getting out. Not that I want it to go back to being illegal, but that there is a lot to be learned. A lot of things were done horribly in CA legalization, and I hope they can get it together and not completely loose the NorCal renegade culture. Dealing with your GDF friend for pounds was actually kinda fun back in the 90's. Everything was a pain in the ass.. but people were different. New breed of people involved now. Look forward to see where this all ends up.
i think he would have been fine with an interview 4x as long
I was listening to one of the recreational buyers talking at the desk. They said "I've been smoking this vape and I'm not feeling anything this week, I need something stronger"... I'm thinkin, NO YOU NEED TO BE EDUCATED ON HOW TO SMOKE. Take a break, get your dose down.
once weed became legal it opened the flood gates for flavors, gizmos, new ways to enjoy it and in some cases easy access to quality trees but over all it turned weed into a normal business to basically take out as much as they can and them sell the business and they only care about the business and it could be in any industry. there still is a weed friendly culture but it is going away and harder to find. its almost like weed had a social gathering behind public eyes and it was more like everyone would try and give you samples of what they had but because they wanted to share the quality kind they had. now its all about profit and how to get rich before the bottom falls out.
I smoked the new legal weed vape heavily for 3 years and quit. I had the most AWFUL withdrawal mentally. 3 months of anxiety, crying and not sleeping. I’m fine now but if I knew that was the result- I never would have started.
Yeah fuck weed
Ive smoked for years and can and have quit multiple times with no side effects lol
Same thing happened to my daughter. Horrible withdrawals. So she ended up not quitting. 😬
@@snoopydoop8879 I smoked legal cannibis herb wax and vapes and have wanted to smoke when i stop but not had any negative effects
@@scotthalvorson1161yeah lol your body reacted differently than his so hilarious🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Finally a interview that’s actually relatable to me I’ve been growing are sorts of strains for years matter fact I feel when u grow ur own weed it makes u less lazier bc then u have to tend to it daily pretty much and etc etc I’ll always produce my own weed street weed just ain’t it
Grow Bro 🎄
Ditto man, been growing for 10 years. Prior to legalization throughout legalization. Helped detach me from the culture. I just grow and smoke. And apparently stock pile pounds.
@@MrSladej 📲?
@@goro1160 yessir got some bouta start flowering soon
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I’ve worked in legal cannabis for 5+ years and the traditional industry for more. I’ve grown personal and worked in many facets of this field. It’s been a wild ride. A lot of what this dude says is legit. But there’s even more shade and non ethical business practices and scandals and drama that he didn’t touch on. Watching an industry evolve in this modern age is simultaneously tantalizing and horrifying.
Write a book about it!
I'm loving the ICP/Twiztid jersey. And the Necro hat! Iconic drip dude
Right!
I had a friend who grew the best he only sold mason jars each jar was 350 and well worth it . A pound would be 16 jars . He only grew 6 strains and he had a house for each strain . He never talked about it and never looked the part .
Then stop telling 😂
@@sarkisianhavens he passed away
I firmly believe there are those that have been a large part of the advancement in cannabis research , development and cultivation that should be recognized , accounted for and memorized for the effort and positive achievements that have occurred in the transformation of cannabis. I personally want to thank , give respects to and bow to your hard work and effort. Awesome job to any and all that have been a part of taking it from where it was back years ago to the quality and health benefits it has today. It's helped me to coop with issues I acquired, threw depression and stress out the window and enabled my happiness again. 3 cheers to ya!!
Great interview.
Figuring this all out up here in VT too. It's nuts.
Interesting interview, but some stuff he's saying is incorrect. First, indoor growing isn't just two decades old. There have been 1000+ plant indoor grows since grow lights were invented. "Legalization" has only made it easier to build commercial grows and keep their doors from being kicked down. Also, the only people still focusing on THC% testing are "for profit" growers, dispensaries and ignorant buyers. As a grower, myself, all I focus on is terpenes. Since we've started studying terpenes, we've learned that each individual reacts uniquely to each terpene, so for instance a "14%THC" Skywalker could affect me harder than it does you and it could also affect me harder than a 30+% ICC or StarDawg, etc. The industry is too focused on archaic marketing BS and not interested in approaching it from a medical standpoint of getting the correct strains in the right hands based on knowing what each terpene is good for (headaches, appetite inducing, etc.). This is because cannabis is still largely viewed as a drug and not as the medicine it actually is. You wouldn't take Advil to help you go to sleep, ya know?
He is correct about black market seshes though. If you're in a state that has them and you're still buying from dispensaries, you must like mids and wasting money. All the real quality is sold at seshes on the super cheap.
Guess it's just like any other business. Business is the science of profit, and workers are only there as long as they're economically viable. They love people who are passionate, because passion for your work keeps you there until they figure out a cheaper way to do your job without you.
Yup, just add that passionate people will take jobs for far less pay than they would otherwise need to pay a dedicated and engaged employee with integrity.
As a twenty year Humboldt County resident it was interesting to see this guy talk about SoCal Costco weed like this.
Remember; he’s the quality control guy 😂 a juggalo ffs.
This was hard to watch. His mind just kept snowballing off the last word of each sentence. 😢
Is it easy to find some growers out in humboldt? I heard that whole town was kept alive by people growing id love to find some people out therr
What’s wrong with being a juggalo?!
Interesting 29:43 . A guy once said on quora that marijuana with seeds back in the days(60's 70's) was weaker but had a happier high and that inseminated buds gives you a more happy high because the plant is happier when it's polinated. Hormonal changes and stuff? I don't know just interesting thinking
This guy is spot on how the cannabis industry is
Holy shit did this even stop to take a breathe during this interview.? I feel like he was speaking from first-hand experience about being able to get that cocaine
This isn't a grower. I guess I get his perspective, as a $20/hr QA/harvest tech. He has a thin slice of the industry as his experience, please do not assume this is true for the industry as a whole. I would love to see Mark interview an *actual* grower. Cool nonetheless.
I quit smoking in 2016. My buddy just told me about the Sesh he goes to on the weekends. Things have really changed in California over the last 20 years.
been growing weed myself for like 3 years, this dude seems chill as hell id love to talk abt weed with him
Very informative interview. I don’t use cannabis, but the level of this man’s understanding of the process is really “scientific beauty.”
Love this interview. Such a smart guy. Incredible
This might be the first time I’ve ever talked “against” a member on this show. Weed is not “WORSE” to buy now. If anything it’s better. It’s cleaner. It’s regulated
Might I also add I live in Canada
Nope
Realest insight into the industry you’ll hear on RUclips
You interviewed a custy who thinks he’s more important than he is. Paying $150+ on a gram of rosin?? My guy is lost in the sauce.
He’s talking about small batch artisanal rosin’s very common in the rosin community to have low end rosin 40-70 a gram and then higher end artisanal rosin being 75-200 a gram!!!!!!
@@noahchampion72 whatever custy
This guy watched every show on vice and became an expert 😂
Moral of the story: grow your own
He works on the 420 properties. There’s a bunch of companies on the same property. I’m a manager at place in the same area. Not everything he is saying is not true not all companies operate shady
This guy solved all of the worlds problems one seed at a time.
if only the seeds did not have aphids in them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This guy obviously did a couple lines before the interview.
@Soft White Underbelly
I'd love to se interviews with someone who's been radicalised at a young age like those ISIS or IS teenagers.
And young girls who's parents want to force marry them.
Woman who's got out of bad marriages.
Maybe it's called arranged marriages, not forced.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for whst yiu do, Mark!
You're so amazing, I admire your work so much.
That's how Americans ought to be with regards to their heirloom vegetables, berries, and fruit+nut trees. They ought to be excited with the plants they have that sustain them as free people upon their land. People ought to be as excited to be free people as this man is about catching a nice buzz.
I'd love it if he wrote a book
This guy needs his own biz
Nahh theres a ton like him in the industry. Dudes making 20 an hour as quality control acting like hes a big dog grower. Nah
Cool to see some weed interviews. I have some wild stories and have been in the industry commercially 7 years now. Alot of people tell me I should write a book about my life lol
Cannabis is all genetics, asking specifically for indica or sativa is dumb there are so many different genetics now, a regular strain can be pumped full of nutrients and have a ton of trichomes but if the genetics are shit something grown outside with little care will get you higher if it’s good genetics. There is a reason names like Kush and haze are as popular as they got, the genetics are superior. THC isn’t everything when it comes to a good high.
I think this Steve dude is smoking the hype-strain...and it's working.
I totally get what he’s saying. I used to smoke heavily before legalization, now whatever this stuff is I cannot. It’s so different, makes you feel way different. It’s not the good Ol make you happy & goofy stuff we used to smoke back in the day.
It’s all about micro dosing. One toke is enough and will give the desired effect without the paranoia and anxiety.
@@ryanblanchard2508You may be right.
@@ryanblanchard2508 it makes me sad when I smoke. I’m not into feeling sad so I just quit.
It’s a business now. Government doesn’t care if it’s a mom and pop thing.
When I was a teen in the 80’s, I remember the game of trying to score a quarter. Sometimes it was pretty good but most times it was Mexican dirt weed or homegrown. It still got us high tho. Now I can the get the best bud anywhere anytime (so cal) but all I do now is have a square of thc chocolate so I can get to sleep every once in a while.
This is a great interview and I really enjoyed hearing from Steve. I appreciate his hard work and appreciation.
I live in a med state and there is no heart and soul in the weed industry! Ive worked grows, trim jobs and dispensaries and shady isn't even the word!!! Weeds getting bugs and heavy metals get passed by paying of the inspector! Feeding the black market, feeding organized crime, human trafficking and I'm sure even worse than that DEATH! I would love to be in the industry but the last commercial grow I was at there were so many guns, being shot constantly, heavy drinking and heavy drugs everywhere. I finished that job and left as soon as I can! The weed industry is GREASY!!!
Man if I could work with a guy like this I would be there but honestly I got out of the streets and the weed industry feels like the streets!!!
It feels like the streets with the pay of the streets
28:20 !!!!! This is the problem!!!!! Some silver spoon asshole who has never grown anything in their life and have a million dollar facility with not even mid weed!!!! SICKENING!!!!!
I've meet Merle before!!! They played a concert for a friend of mine and there was only 20 people at that show!!!
Afghan Kush coming out of cave junction Oregon was some of the best outdoor I ever seen
I started smoking when i was 14 and i smoked heavily all the way up to 37. I had cut back to mostly just weekend smoking for the last few years and then finally completely stopped a year ago. Giving it up was one of the best things i ever did and i honestly wish i never went near the stuff to begin with. Everyone's different I suppose but for me it was had a very negative impact on my life and I don't miss it at all now
With the THC so high, I don't know how people can continue using it daily and not end up screwed up or in a mental hospital.
@@pjjmsnyou guys are squares
@@MarksTournaments It gets you over time. So tell me that in ten years if you are using high THC strains everyday. Andrew Huberman did a podcast on the negative effects of it. It guarntees to cause depression and altered speech over time, and can cause much, much worse like psychosis and violent psychosis.
I worked in a "mental" hospital for a short time, I never saw anyone admitted there because of pot or high THC levels.
Alcohol, Heroin, meth, definitely seen plenty of patients, young and old, struggling with that.
@@MarksTournaments you’re the guy that keeps it in the comments huh sweetie?!
I agree bro. Its come a long way since we were buying schwag from our buddies uncle and smoking out of pop can pipes on the hiking trail in the park. Lol
Yep, the days of downtown brown
@@djtall3090yeah things have changed since I started smoking pot in 1967…… omg.. lol!
The tin foil days
This dude is the Paul Blarrt of the weed world 😄
x1000😅and people wonder why the industry is in shambles...LOL😅😅😅
Make a trolley system with a suspended hook that latches shut to hang the bags from. This way, you can transport the trimmed flower more smoothly without having it bump into shit, excuse my language, or being bounced around knocking trichromes off.
For he who sees and receives the most knows the most and has the most to tell.
It’s sad the rocket science industry missed out on this mind. Einstein, Hawking, Steve
Aphids absolutely do not "live in seeds" but this both informative and entertaining haha😂
Probably one of the smartest and most articulate Juggalo I've ever heard. whoop whoop!
100 % well-spoken truth here. Been there, done it...was ugly just like he says. I have the same ethics regarding this plant. Never touched free product where i worked. Only biologically-grown for me thanks. Great interview fellas.
Great interview! ❤