I think legalized marijuana will be wonderful for agriculture 🚜🌿

I think legalized marijuana will be wonderful for agriculture 🚜🌿

I can’t imagine a better way to get young adults interested in genetics, plant cultivation and preparation of commodities than legalized marijuana. Unlike hops and home brew beer production, marijuana is relatively easy to grow in a pot outdoors and prepare in the home. It literally could be a gateway drug to homesteading and careers in agriculture and bioscience. Families that might never grow lettuce or tomatoes in their back patio might grow cannabis for home use in baking or smoking.

Not to mention that cannabis may be a big and up and coming market for farmers and other growers. While hemp is an interesting and valuable crop, it’s hard to make a business out of it without also doing marijuana – as hemp with too much THC is cannabis. It would be like having a dairy farm but no market for dairy steers. Or running a hog barn without a crop business to spread the manure on. Or plastics manufacture without oil and gas fuel businesses. If you have people growing food grade cannabis then it opens up a lot of potential uses for fast growing hemp. Cannabis could also provide an additional line of business for dairies to get into.