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Vancouver Tourist Information Although it is illegal, Vancouver police generally do not arrest people for possessing small amounts of marijuana and it has been nick named “Vansterdam”. Despite Canadian laws forbidding its non-medical use, some cities and local law enforcement have, at times, tolerated coffee shops which allow customers to smoke cannabis. In Vancouver, for example, the New Amsterdam and Blunt Brothers were cafes on West Hastings Street with such pro-cannabis policies. The two companies have been at the core of Vancouver's "Vansterdam" scene since the beginning. In 2004 Blunt Bros Cafe & Headshop, along with four other businesses were...

Soil is not dirt from your back yard. Back yard soil is not sterile, can and will most often kill your seeds and also contains pests, and weeds that will cause so many grow room problems. If you really on a tight budget, you can place your back yard top soil in a large baking pan and cook for 1.5 hours at 125 degrees to sterilize the soil and kill weeds and pests. Let it cool before plating and don’t burn yourself. Preferable, you have a few extra dollars and you can buy some good potting soil. I like Black...

Alright 6 weeks have passed, boy time fly’s when your having fun. Now we need to sex our green jungle to eliminate the male plants. 12 hours of light is now required. 12 hours of lights on, and 12 hours of lights off. This is called the “flowering cycle”. For medical use, the female plant is the only plant you’re interested in growing to full maturity. You don’t know what the sexes of the plants are until they show you, and that’s weeks after you change your light cycle to the flowering cycle. The Male Plant often show’s it’s sex...

Locating low-cost, low-tech shredders for small-scale seed threshing is next to impossible for small-scale seed production. You are left with no choice but to do all the labor manually. Marijuana seeds are tiny, so it is impractical to use a machine for threshing. You can also try leaving your cannabis seeds to dry on a tarp, where it will naturally dehisce (shed) much of its seeds. The rest of your cannabis seeds can be manually released. Try gently whipping or rolling the plant and seeds between your fingers. If you don;t care much about damaging your seeds, and your more...

BE SURE TO ALSO READ OUR ADVANCED SEED STORAGE ARTICLE. This article is for basic storage only. You either bought some seeds and you only grow out a couple seeds and want to properly store the rest of your seeds viably for future use, or you grew your own marijuana plants, made some seeds and need to store them for future use. Lets get down to it, storing seeds properly is easy if you know what you’re doing! Seed dormancy is Seed Storage! Marijuana seeds can remain stored and viable for decades with little damage to their DNA. Optimal storage...