Hey Botony Boy, Have I got a deal for You!

[JackLuis]

The DEA is looking for candidates to grow marijuana for research – but will it find any takers?

To register with the agency, applicants will need to show that they will have security measures in place to protect the marijuana and be willing to comply with a host of other requirements. And depending on the scale of the operation, prospective growers will likely have to make significant investments to get it up and running.

Bob Morgan, an attorney at Much Shelist who formerly led the Illinois medical marijuana program, said that facilities in states that have strict regulations on medical marijuana growers are probably looking at multimillion-dollar expenditures for construction alone.

"I think everybody is just thinking about how to approach this," said Dr. Igor Grant, director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California, San Diego. "What will it really take to get one of these DEA licenses?"

Sharpen up those negotiation skills and drop the DEA a line. If you work it right the Fed would probably front you the money.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Enticing and terrifying............

 

[JackLuis]

Enticing and terrifying............

Yeah, but if you have the balls you could get them to give you the capital and set you up to be big time when they ultimately legalize weed and the State couldn't touch you if you had the FEDs behind you.

Vets have some extra juice in Federal Contracting and the SBA might help out too!

 

[BotanyBoy]

Yeah, but if you have the balls you could get them to give you the capital and set you up to be big time when they ultimately legalize weed and the State couldn't touch you if you had the FEDs behind you.

Vets have some extra juice in Federal Contracting and the SBA might help out too!

Yea....true.

I suppose it wouldn't hurt to look into it. I got a sneaking suspicion this is going to a pharmaceutical co. though.

Thanks for the heads up man.

 

[JackLuis]

Yea....true.

I suppose it wouldn't hurt to look into it. I got a sneaking suspicion this is going to a pharmaceutical co. though.

Thanks for the heads up man.

Just write up your application and emphasize the security of your grow and you experience in armed security.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Just write up your application and emphasize the security of your grow and you experience in armed security.

Oh yea, I suppose that would give me a bit of a leg up over others.

Maybe with their approval I can put claymore trips up around my perimeter.

 

[JackLuis]

Veterans Back on Patrol, This Time to Protect Marijuana

DENVER — It’s nighttime at the Herbal Cure, a south Denver marijuana shop and grow house tucked into a parking lot beside the highway. Inside is a marijuana bounty: thousands of dollars’ worth of cannabis plants, boxes of marijuana-infused chocolate, jars of $360-an-ounce weed with names like Frankenberry, Lemon Skunk and Purple Cheddar.

Chris Bowyer, a lanky combat veteran turned cannabis security guard, is outside. He has a .40-caliber pistol on his hip and a few extra magazines stored away, and he is talking about his work on the battlefield. Not the one in Iraq — the one in Colorado, where criminals seeking to breach marijuana businesses face veterans trying to stop them.

“This is my therapy,” Mr. Bowyer said, heading for a place where burglars broke in recently. He checked a fence for signs of a new incursion, then headed to an office to note the night’s activities in a rigorously organized logbook. “This is what we did in the military.”

In Colorado, a curious marriage has formed between the booming retail cannabis industry — legal in the state since 2014, but not in the eyes of the federal government — and young war veterans, more than 200 of whom have taken jobs protecting marijuana businesses across the state. They spend their days and nights in urban marijuana shops and suburban warehouses and on rural farms, warding off the burglars who have become hallmarks of this cash-heavy, high-value business.

 

[patient1]

Oh yea, I suppose that would give me a bit of a leg up over others.

Maybe with their approval I can put claymore trips up around my perimeter.

and a carton of grenades for your launcher.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Veterans Back on Patrol, This Time to Protect Marijuana

Oh yea...security work is good money. Wouldn't want it in CA though, gawd forbid you ever need to shoot a thief turned violent on you.

and a carton of grenades for your launcher.

Tell em' tah make it 40mm HEDP