Now add up your rent for the year, another 10-12, 000 easy. now you’re down to 46, 000. Now add in your living expenses, insurance, medical bills, food, clothing, vehicle. I mean now that Grower has around 36K to live on for a year, no savings, no land, no retirement, and a hell of a lot of work. Also, he’s constantly living underground (with no Gf, or really any type of real relationship because at some point people start getting into your business) so as not to get taken down by the law or other people trying to rip him off. It’s like living in the fucking jungle. Everyone wants a piece of your ass, including PG&E. It’s mainly a very isolated and lonely life, with no future except to “blow it up again.”

And it’s not like he takes 6 months off. Immediately he’s getting ready for next season, looking for clones, getting supplies, maybe having to move and look for another land owner, all of that bullshit.

It’s true, people made a lot of money in the past and the worked their asses of for it, but it ain’t like that any more. Prices have already dropped 30% in 2010 from 2009. I expect this year outdoor will force the price of a lb to all new lows, like 1200 or so. Indoor growers can’t compete with that price and end up stating till summer, or giving their crop away.

There is a lot of poverty among growers. Indoor residential needs about 2500 a lb to stay in business. Grow your fucking own and then come tell us about it. While you’re at it, grow your own food too and see how easy that is. Nothing is free man.