High Country Caregiver

Seed to Sale

Matt Cook from the Colorado Department of Revenue obviously has no clue about growing marijuana or anything else agricultural related.  Cook “We plan to track the entire commodity from seed to sale,” said Matt Cook, senior director of enforcement at the Colorado Department of Revenue. “We will use a Web-based, 24-7 video surveillance system, and we will see virtually everything from the time a seed goes into the ground to the time the plants are harvested, cultivated, processed, packaged, stored.”  The new chief of medical marijuana enforcement comes from a background of casino regulation and law enforcement including DEA training.

Experienced caregivers can tell right from this man’s first words about tracking marijuana “from seed to sale”, that he has no experience in marijuana cultivation.  The USDA once tried to have a department devoted to certifying produce organic in the US, only to give up the effort as organic is impossible to regulate.  Growing cannabis and having the Colorado Department of Revenue be in charge of regulation should prove even more disastrous.  Taking care of one medical marijuana garden is difficult, there is no way that the tax man can find the super gardeners who are needed to inspect marijuana gardens, because that guy is already a pot farmer and will never jump in bed with the DOR.

Inspecting marijuana gardens is a no start by default because no reputable cannabis cultivator is going to let random strangers contaminated with mold and pests from other gardens into his / her garden.  We admire your ambition to be the world’s biggest cannabis garden manager Matt Cook, but tracking a plant from seed to sale just doesn’t work.  Today is the last day of marijuana without regulation in Colorado then it’s back to the good old vigilante days for all the ganja farmers in the high country.  Gardeners work from seed to harvest, and the next step sale is someone else’s job.  Leave the cultivation to the ganja farmer Matt Cook, you worry about the sales with the other pot clowns.  Leave pot be!

From Seed to Harvest

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