Submitted by [deleted] t3_115m2cj in RhodeIsland
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darkrom t1_j93bqax wrote
I'm reading this as "if you work at a grow and they are doing shady shit, tell me" not someone looking for "free labor".
ExploitedAmerican t1_j93c1u0 wrote
He is also looking for volunteers to go inspect grow facilities for free.
darkrom t1_j93c4yl wrote
Pretty sure hes asking for people who are already in them to report back. Random people can't just walk into a grow facility to inspect it.
[deleted] OP t1_j95u2zy wrote
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ExploitedAmerican t1_j93comz wrote
He told me he already has grow facilities offering to open up for walk through. And honestly in today’s climate can you honestly trust wealthy business owners to not pay employees to say there is nothing to see and all is aok? Only way to get this to work is independent auditing. Also workers in this climate fear retribution for bringing shady practices to light. I don’t see many grow workers risking their meager quality of life to expose wrong doing in any industry.
GoatessFrizzleFry t1_j94jjpq wrote
I worked for NETA in MA when they first opened. They were the first in MA. And they were full of mold, and the owners from CO pulled all sorts of shady bs. Of course we went to HR. They did nothing.
So a bunch of us just called OSHA. Because NETA was literally allowed to train the health inspector given them by the state (seeing they normally deal with restaurants and other facilities, they weren’t even sure wtf they were looking for…real, real ethical).
Before I quit, I saw PM, black mold, full plants dipped in H2O2…illegal use of Neem, just fuckery of all types.
OP is absolutely asking for work. It is stressful( demanding, and you’re often told to rugsweep everything from black mold to edibles being taken off the god damned floor.
For patients. Immunocompromised patients. As one of those people as well, it was maddening to watch.
I’d never do this work for free, but I’ll report anything suspicious I see any time. You don’t need a job for that. None of us do.
ExploitedAmerican t1_j94jz0n wrote
They want people to go out of their way to inspect cultivation facilities. It’s one thing if you work someplace that’s doing shady shit like that and report it to the health board/ licensing authorities. But many won’t for fear of retaliation from their employer. Ultimately unless you’re getting hired as a grunt laborer for $20 an hour or less to water plants, harvest trim and spray Chems these companies are only hiring people with useless horticulture degrees who’ve never grown cannabis in most cases have no clue about proper integrated pest management procedures and leaving people who’ve risked their freedom for decades to hone a clandestine craft out in the cold.
No thanks, this should be an industry opened to those who have earned the merit through experience and work not through a paycheck and a sketch ass handshake.
GoatessFrizzleFry t1_j94ox7i wrote
Oh, I fully understand that. I’m saying as someone who worked black and gray before being hired at a production facility, I’d never willfully inspect cultivation facilities for free.
The backlash of reporting at a job, where I was working in a higher paid position (not trim, not watering plants) was still horrible.
There’s just no way.
ExploitedAmerican t1_j94slji wrote
Thank you Op has no problem gaslighting me calling me mentally ill for keeping it 💯
[deleted] OP t1_j95u5mc wrote
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ExploitedAmerican t1_j96hylq wrote
LMAO
because I don’t post in grow subs with this user account I can’t possibly be a grower who has skill. Yeah sure bud whatever you say.
I have a contempt and disdain for the exclusionary elitists who own the cultivation facilities in the ma/ri area but yeah I’m secretly someone who knows people using nasty shit to clean their flower!?! Like what planet do you live on? Jupiter?
And then Saying the pictures of my plants look terrible but that’s just more gaslighting baloney
401jamin t1_j9386sy wrote
Isn’t op the one shilling mass dispensaries
Thac0 t1_j93obef wrote
Op was saying MA dispensaries we’re all selling mold, stale buds
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401jamin t1_j95umt5 wrote
Your very pushy. Worry about yourself my dude. You get the same reaction on every post you make here, in the new group you made, and the mass group you were in. Unless you can get me an ounce for under 90 bucks I don’t really want to here your whistleblower poop. Sorry man.
[deleted] OP t1_j95uvdr wrote
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Swamp_yankee_ninja t1_j93vkxa wrote
Look up sweet spot dispensary, that place has owners in South Carolina, New York, Rhode Island, a lot of fingers in that pie.
Desperate_Expert_952 t1_j95jvob wrote
Legalizing weed wasn’t for the people bro it was for tax revenue.
Swamp_yankee_ninja t1_j93w3ro wrote
At this point, grow as much cannabis as you want, or up to 99 plants to stay under the federal radar. The Rhode island judicial system ain’t going to do shit. The days of tying up the court systems is over. Consider the plant count law a recommendation and not a rule.
ExploitedAmerican t1_j93x3jh wrote
Yeah but if they want to they can screw you hard just to make an example. Too much power in the hands of the few as usual
Swamp_yankee_ninja t1_j93xjmb wrote
But it’s legal? How can we have legal cannabis and have a cap on how many “plants” a person can garden? Trust me every Tom, dick and Harry is going to be growing outdoors this summer. Now I’m sure they would try to make examples of it of people, but it wouldn’t make it far. The cannabis cat is out of the bag.
[deleted] OP t1_j95wlyn wrote
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ExploitedAmerican t1_j94if5i wrote
If you don’t value people’s time enough to believe they are worth being paid for providing a service you are no better than he Wall Street hedge fund military/ prison industry profiteers that have looted the working class and left my generation with no prospect of retirement, no ability to purchase a home, and no reason to perform labor. Seriously this guy wants free labor. Offering a smoke sesh and a shared utopian vision isn’t going to get people interested its like venue owners telling talented musicians you’ll pay them in exposure lol. Why don’t you post the conversations of people who are jumping at your offer to devalue their time and energy so we can be told to trust products grown by an exclusionary industry? How bout this, If you think dispos and cultivators are growing contaminated product then why not just tell people to grow their own or find someone who does and has clean organic flower/ concentrate instead of doing free work that will ultimately benefit those who’ve payed to play in this industry?
Sorry this is such a joke it writes itself
Sorry this is such a joke it writes itself
Paid-Not-Payed-Bot t1_j94ifym wrote
> those who’ve paid to play
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ExploitedAmerican t1_j94jbo2 wrote
I never claimed any of that I just told you Why I value my time as highly as I do and why you shouldn’t expect free labor in an exclusionary pay to play industry. Nice try gaslighting though.
ExploitedAmerican t1_j97duz5 wrote
Yeah I sent you 2 pictures of flowering plants. One of the Imgur links I posted contained about 15 or so pics from a multi strain phenotype hunt I did.
What I bring to the table is over a decade of experience in soil building, full organic integrated pest management techniques as knowing how to grow high quality flower without spending hundreds of dollars on toxic nutrients and hyped up bullshit, with an in depth knowledge on Korean natural farming, recycled organic living soil and horizonal soils. If you were actually interested in organic flower you would stay away from dispensaries. I haven’t ever given a dispensary money but would have been glad to help confirm the claims of workers who called out shady practices if I was compensated fairly to do so. Sounds like you’re just going to take the word of anyone who can prove they work at a cultivation facility and send you a picture they may or may not have taken themselves.
Let me inform you.the only way this plan you have will work is if you have people to go verify claims of malfeasance independently. What are you going to do just put cultivation facilities on blast anytime you get a claim or picture of an irradiation machine? That’s not how that works. This is pretty much the same thing as journalism and you’ll have to verify your sources claims and information otherwise you’ll be a joke/ hack just spouting off unverified claims insanely ranting like you’ve accused me of doing. But any any wealthy cannabis production business will be more than able to refute your claims with far more credibility then your “haze snob and company” audit will ever have.
Anyone who has eyes can see these plants are healthy and if you tasted the dry flower in person you’d be nothing short of impressed. I don’t use this user account for anything cannabis related but your account is just like a few pics of dried flower, some rosin packages and one sad looking plant. Like you couldn’t take any time to pull those two gross looking Leaves off under the canopy?
wutang2019 t1_j931uf2 wrote
Than*
ExploitedAmerican t1_j932aq3 wrote
Yes grammar police man, sorry for the autocorrect typo. Was holding my phone on a wireless charging pad with one hand and typing with one finger.
wutang2019 t1_j932loe wrote
I type with one finger(thumb)all the time. Actually, I just did it whilst typing this.
ExploitedAmerican t1_j93352o wrote
It’s slower and I make more mistakes. You can’t deny that using both thumbs simultaneously a more accurate and quicker way to compose text. But this is irrelevant. I’ve corrected the typo and the conversation here should pertain to the ideas I’ve mentioned not the grammar used in <1% of my content.
wutang2019 t1_j9337tc wrote
Agreed. As you were.
alohaHappycampers t1_j93o6ky wrote
i dont enjoy smokin the mr bo-jangles weed
waiting for mr mushi mushi puff puff shroom boom to legalize
overthehillhat t1_j9h7jy0 wrote
Fungus is always better than mold - - -
Swamp_yankee_ninja t1_j93vc2w wrote
I’m afraid this has been an ongoing issue since the very first “compassion” center “slater” opened its doors. Slater was caught spraying Eagle 20 on flowering plants, this was before testing. I’m sure they and other growers used it as well. Once the cultivators started growing, the all sprayed whatever the hell they wanted on flowering plants, spider mites after all can really cost you a fortune, of course introducing predator mites and ladybugs is just too hippy for these fast paced growers. Keep in mind all this cannabis was slated to be use by patients with medical conditions, some people with compromised immune systems and all sorts of disorders. Mold was almost a given during this time as well as banned pesticides. It wasn’t until the State finally, finally rolled out testing that they where finally caught, and their excuses where hilarious. In any event, if these growers are using irradiation machines to kill mold they dam well better disclose that on the packaging. Greed does funny things to people, they start off with the best intentions and then… it all goes to hell in a handbag. Best advice was from Neil young back in the day… home grown is a good thing, plant that bell and let it ring.
Human-Ad2370 t1_j95in00 wrote
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vanlife22 t1_j93zvbb wrote
Rhode Island is so dumb that half of this is just arguing what op said just shut up and re-read
huh_phd t1_j95s2mn wrote
Can I blow the whistle on purevita labs?
SuddenlySimple t1_j96vnyj wrote
I keep telling people dispensary weed is unsafe.
haze_snob t1_j96vyct wrote
There are brands and people doing it right.
Unfortunately, just like in Mass, we have "money people" owners in charge of some of our dispensaries and these people don't really understand cannabis.
I'm working to educate some of them now.
overthehillhat t1_j9h7vqc wrote
Before it was legal they burnt the moldy stuff with a match - -
[deleted] OP t1_j95u201 wrote
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ExploitedAmerican t1_j92xaoy wrote
OP is Looking for free labor in an industry that already excludes the poor and working class from entry. While the rich get to grow millions of dollars in profits we get 3 to six mature plants depending on 1or 2 adult households. US cannabis is pay to play if you don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars you face political judicial prosecution for growing a few pounds so you can help cover living expenses. Traveling to grow sites paying for your gas and inspecting plants for pests disease and contamination is labor. Very few if any are willing to donate precious time for nothing more than a smoke session and altruistic ideals.