Get Growing – Learn To Grow Medical Marijuana

Since the passage of Proposition 215 in 1996, I have met many medical marijuana patients that ask how to learn to grow your own medicine. Prop 215 and SB420 allow qualified patients with a MD or DO medical marijuana approval letter and their primary caregivers to cultivate medical marijuana for their personal use. Patients chose to grow their own medicine for a various reasons that include cost, contamination fears, and gardening pleasure. If you are motivated to start your medical marijuana garden, there are many internet sources, DVD’s, books and classes available.

With local dispensaries in Orange County asking for donations of $20 or more per gram, many patients are looking for ways to reduce their medical marijuana expense by starting their own garden. Growing your own medicine can be done with a relatively small budget, especially if you can grow outdoors using mother nature and good old fashion sunlight. Another reason patients look to grow their own medicine is for quality assurances knowing their cannabis was produced without the use of chemicals or toxic pesticides. For those patients able to maintain a cannabis garden, many will attest to the therapeutic value of growing your own medicine.

While reducing cost is certainly a consideration for many would be growers, knowing how and what was used to produce the medicine is a major concern. Organically grown marijuana free of harmful pesticides and chemicals is the safest and best cannabis for patients. Growing your own medicine is the only true way to be assured your medicine was grown using only organic compounds. Commercial growers and illegal growers will often sacrifice or compromise their grow to produce greater yields and/or protect their crop from pests. Growing clean green medicine organically can be challenging and often times only a grower’s integrity is rewarded.

For centuries, we Americans have found gardening to be of great therapeutic value. Cannabis patients alike find their gardens akin to a certain tranquility never witnessed before. The feeling is often indescribable, but many attest to the peace and harmony found only in their cannabis garden and the wealth of satisfaction derived from watching the life cycle of this amazing plant.

If you want to reduce your costs, have organically grown medicine, and find an inner peace and satisfaction, learn to grow your own medicine. If you have the ability to learn via watching videos, there are hundreds of YouTube growing videos available. If you need a helping hand, there are websites filled with a community of avid growers waiting to share their knowledge and expertise. Text book learners will find stacks of books authored by renowned growers like, Jose Cervantes, Ed Rosenthal and Greg Green. For those that need classroom style learning, local grow classes,workshops, and seminars are readily available. Whatever your learning style or need, it is out there and easy to obtain. With a little persistence, passion and a desire to learn the skills, you too can learn to grow your own medicine!

When you are ready to start growing, make sure you check Hal Kemp’s Grow Tips and Free Grow Workshops