From an interview with homesteader Rosie Brown from the Mendocino magazine The New Settler Interview, Issue 149, Summer 2010, editor Beth Bosk.
Rosie: “…patients need to know that it is virtually impossible to grow organically indoors. Indoor growers are going to use something that you should not be using if you are really sick. This is herbal medicine, and…it's got to be grown outdoors. You wouldn't buy wine where the grapes were grown indoors. I don't even like hothouse tomatoes. Picture … apple trees lined up in a warehouse, under lights in rock wool. It's a brave-new-world. It horrifies me. Part of what make's herbal medicine good is its attachment to nature. Being outside. Being influenced by the sunlight and the moonlight. Everything is better being grown outdoors."
The lesson: know your grower. Your lungs are precious!
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Oh come on, Lloyd! It doesn't take insecticides to make marijuana bad for your lungs! I smoked daily for about 8 years of my life - at this point, I qualify for medical marijuana in any state it's legal - don't have medical marijuana in our state - but I'd seriously worry about its effect on my lungs - I now deal with asthma. I wouldn't hesitate to use it for cancer, but for my pain, on a long term basis - not a chance.
You can absolutely grow organically indoors; either in soil or hydroponically. I see know reason why medical marijuana should have to be grown outdoors. Growing marijuana allows the grower to control the conditions ideally. She can limit the exposure to insects, reducing the need for any type of insecticide, and generally speaking produce a superior product. The problem with growing indoors isn't in the quality, safety, or naturalness of the product but rather the cost to the grower. That, and there are some varieties that really need to be grown under full sunlight to do well. I love your blog but you need to do more research before making such fear inducing statements.
look at the in/out puts: soil, sun, compost, water or industrial lights, electricity, chemical fertilizers, rockwool.
live/eat/smoke lower on the energy/food chain. our planet will thank you.
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