My CannabaInternship

hello my friends,
i have just returned from my first weekend at my new internship. i am helping out at a medicinal marijuana plantation, yes, you read that correctly, i actually managed to hook that up. well mostly it got set up for me. as many of you know i have a bit of an interest in marijuana horticulture and because of the US's oppresive laws there is no opportunity for someone like me to learn anything. well, my mother being the crazy woman she is thought that this would be a great learning opportunity for me. and since hopefully one day it will be legal worldwide it might be good stuff to know. anyway, as the laws here in spain go, it is legal to smoke, or consume any other drug personally. this consumption is protected under personal freedoms. and since it is illgal to traffic drugs, and more specifically cannabis, the only way for patients who consume marijuana for medical purposes either smoke, or otherwise ingested, to obtain their medicine is from the woman i was helping out, who shall remain nameless just in case. she is the president of her local cannabis association and she consumes it for various medical reasons, not to deny the fact that she is quite an enthusiast herself. but who can blame her, how could anyone who has ever smoked not be facinated by the cannabis plant, so beautiful and useful, and at times so problematic. so anyway, the woman i was 'working' for has a small field that she plants the weed in, and what a remarkable field it is. simply put, that shit is crack, she grows the best marijuana i have ever seen, or smoked. she has developed some personal variaties throughout the years that are quite impressive.

but anyway, so the number one problem is the same as with any other marijuana plantation in spain, bandits. when i first met her on wendesday she had just had 8 plants stolen by some kids from around the town. because she is so famous for her anti drug law advocacy she has appeared on tv and such and the town knows what she is doing, essentially she has bought herself a card of legality since it has been proven that she does not trafic, but if fact uses it for herself and other sick people that are members of the association, all of them having been recomended by doctors. so i went out there on thursday and basically we spent the whole weekend on guard. she was glad for me to have come so she could finally leave the house to run some errands. basically she can never leave the house alone beause she will be robbed. during the weekend, the outer fence was broken twice, which i repared, but the dogs were able to prevent them from entering the plantation. there is nothing better than dogs when it comes to security, and she says she likes to keep bitches because when they have puppies (around this time of year) they are hyper protective. i basically just stayed over her house, which is such a pleasant place to be not just because of the weed, but becasue she has a vertable oasis, filled with olive, almond, and cyprus trees. she has at least 50 pots full of all different herbs and spices, palms and papaya trees, cactuses and chiles. it was so nice to get out of granada for the weekend and not party for once. to not go out, and go to bed early is a luxury i enjoy more and more every day. so i spent the days playing with my new favorite cat, Osiris, or manicuring the plants (fun at first, tedious for the remaining 90%), or repairing the fence, or somoking joints and just chilling out with her, learning about her art. she is what we would call an OG, she has been around the game for years, was the first person to ever win a lawsuit, she is friends with many of the big time growers in europe and america, intimate with some. she is even a friend of Jorge Cervantes, author of the Bible for those of you who know what that is. she has been given seeds by all of the big timers, which she grows and has blended to perfection, she has even been a judge in the cannabis cup, haha. next month shes going to speak at the european parliament. basically shes the godmother, the best person to learn from.
i learned about what medicinal marijuana is really about, not just an excuse for smoking. there are tinctues and ointments that she makes for herself and others, which require a huge amount of grass but dont get you high at all. so one person could easily utilize in one form or another the yield of 20 plants in one year, which even makes spains generous 3 plants per person policy seem oppresive.

allow me to show you some pictures no?
this is me harvesting one branch (not one plant, one branch) at our house before we got robbed


heres the view inside the plantation. there are many different plants and different stages of development. and theres one hammock with the most serene ambiance in the world








and here is a picture of me among the trees. "en la gloria" as they say around here. these plants are not only beautiful, but they are so well taken care of. not much to say









and here is my homeboy osiris. he is the first cat that i have ever really had any affinity for. hes a smart little guy whos a few months old. all of the animals at the house have quite a unique relationship, its like another small family, 2-4 dogs and 3 cats makes for quite a riot.










well i think thats all for now. im off to play soccer to make up for all the days of sitting around the plantation 'experimenting'. i felt it would be disrespectful to turn down a joing. as they say, when in rome, so since i havnt been smoking much, i was high as a kite all weekend.
peace fam
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