Quote:My gut feeling is it won't be hugely profitable on the grower side, and it will most likely take a half dozen years to find out one way or the other. I'm not really an open ground farmer either, and theft would be a huge concern since the raw plant is pretty easy to turn into the finished product for Joe Thief.


To make a kinda extreme example, it would be like a Napa wine grower pulling his vineyard out to plant a crop that can be grown virtually anywhere (including our much cheaper Southern neighbors) in the world and that has no stable market yet. Huge huge gamble with 1000x more competition than the market you're already succeeding in.

 

I would imagine the for profit growers would be using hot houses. That wouldn't require much land allocation but I also don't know how extensive start up costs would be for something large enough to produce a profitable crop. I guess I was just curious if farmers in general were considering marijuana as viable in addition to their existing produce, if the opportunity arose.

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