The Top 40

What is the value of your life, to you?
To them it is zero.

Uh, can't you just buy that pot stuff in the store?

If you want to go through all that effort why not grow opium poppies?

This thanks to Wiki:
"Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).
Opium latex contains approximately 12% of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade.

The production of opium itself has not changed since ancient times. Through selective breeding of the Papaver somniferum plant, the content of the phenanthrene alkaloids morphine, codeine, and to a lesser extent thebaine, has been greatly increased.
In modern times, much of the thebaine, which often serves as the raw material for the synthesis for hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and other semisynthetic opiates, originates from extracting Papaver orientale or Papaver bracteatum."

That's all you get. The refining to morphine and ultimately to heroin is easier and safer than cooking meth.

250 grams from one plant? Not likely. And outdoor grown weed rarely rises above mid-grade quality so it doesn't sell for those ridiculous amounts of money. Someone is exaggerating for dramatic effect. Trust me on this.

JWM

Well, John, the author is showcasing his own product. He talks like a sausage.

His basic assumption is that marijuana is easy to cultivate. It isn't. This is much the same as thinking you can plant a few grape vines in your back yard and have an excellent chardonnay at the end of the season. There's way more to it.

JWM

Yer right John. Back in the day I tried, grow some home-grown. Was good seed but there is much more than sticking 'em in the ground and watering them. My yield was some pretty light weight stuff, like 3.2 beer.

My uncle Letsgo told me one time his hens got into a patch of weed, growing between corn plants. They were so buzzed they couldn't find the coop.