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darkrom t1_j93c4yl wrote

Reply to comment by ExploitedAmerican in RI Cannabis Whistleblowers Wanted by [deleted]

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j94slji wrote

Thank you Op has no problem gaslighting me calling me mentally ill for keeping it 💯

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[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

https://imgur.com/a/9M8IMTV

https://imgur.com/a/5ksplVI

https://imgur.com/a/fwGKKSZ

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