Oh Craigslist, You Amuse Me So!

[tridentk9]

Well, in New England, California, Colorado and a few southern states you can actually marry your first cousins. My father's family came from a small area around Bethune, CO that was known as "The Settlement" where a group of Germans from Russia who came from the Bessarabian village of Brienne established a colony. They are very inbred - I can remember visiting as a young woman and hearing a young man discussing how he had married his high school sweetheart after all. It seems he had decided to attend the community college over in Stratton to try and find a spouse he wasn't closely related to, and when he came home with the girl he met there, his mother pointed out how they were all related. She was more closely related than his high school sweetheart, so he decided to go ahead and marry his high school sweetheart.

Nothing like visiting and finding that everyone in town is related by blood or marriage or both. My mother was seen as very exotic and "foreign" due to her having Mayflower/Jamestown/Hueguenot refugee/American Revolutionary soldiers/Colonial American ancestry..

LOL- when we discuss dog pedigrees at some point a newcome will decide it's like a small town. We introduce the dog by who they're related to. In most cases we can go back quite a bit and explain who the ancestor is also related to, what everyone did, who had puppies by whom. It can get very involved.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Well, in New England, California, Colorado and a few southern states you can actually marry your first cousins. My father's family came from a small area around Bethune, CO that was known as "The Settlement" where a group of Germans from Russia who came from the Bessarabian village of Brienne established a colony. They are very inbred - I can remember visiting as a young woman and hearing a young man discussing how he had married his high school sweetheart after all. It seems he had decided to attend the community college over in Stratton to try and find a spouse he wasn't closely related to, and when he came home with the girl he met there, his mother pointed out how they were all related. She was more closely related than his high school sweetheart, so he decided to go ahead and marry his high school sweetheart.

Nothing like visiting and finding that everyone in town is related by blood or marriage or both. My mother was seen as very exotic and "foreign" due to her having Mayflower/Jamestown/Hueguenot refugee/American Revolutionary soldiers/Colonial American ancestry..

Thats sorta like it is here. I am related to everyone. I try to date out of town people. I end up being related to them too though. Thats life in the mountains. I am sure it was a lot worse 300 years ago....

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Thats sorta like it is here. I am related to everyone. I try to date out of town people. I end up being related to them too though. Thats life in the mountains. I am sure it was a lot worse 300 years ago....

One reason that Colorado, New Mexico, and California all have legal first cousin marriages, the same with much of historic New England. When we would go back to visit, everyone would comment on how my mother wasn't related to anyone there; the same with my aunts and uncles spouses. They all married people unrelated to "the tribe."

It's funny that people don't look at all askance at line breeding livestock, but go crazy when they see people marrying their first or second cousins.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Here's a fun one.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/grd/4587292469.html
Huge chicken coop for sale. I am moving and can't take it with me. It has 3 nesting boxes. Very sturdy. The only catch is we have to get it out of my back yard. It was built inside the yard so getting it out could be hard. Come and see and we can put our brains together to come up with a solution. $200 obo. If is still listed I still have it.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

The decline of medical marijuana in California:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/grd/4560977826.html

Lots of grow stuff
condition: like new
Hey guys I have a lot of hydro grow stuff. 12 ballasts , Hoods, Pumps, 2'x4' trays, 4'x8' trays. 2 cloning machines ect. I can also help you setup a complete operation. I have a ton of experience in growing from start to finish. If you are interested and serious let me know
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[MeepBeep]

The decline of medical marijuana in California:

More like the bubble was bound to burst for small time operations, everyone jumped on the indoor growing bandwagon when it was illegal (and newly legal) as it was very profitable to grow indoors, but indoor growing simply is not economical long term at the commercial level as legalization rolls out... There is plenty of fertile land across the US to grow, there is simply no way to compete with outdoor growers as more places legalize it and people can simply plant it by the acre outside... The short is the indoor growing industry is bound to collapse except for high end vanity strains...

BTW indoor marijuana growing still accounts for about 3% of California's total electricity use and it's wrecking havoc with local water supplies, and California 'imports' about 80% of the legally grown medical marijuana from other States, so the industry is still booming in California...

 

[The Yakima Kid]

More like the bubble was bound to burst for small time operations, everyone jumped on the indoor growing bandwagon when it was illegal (and newly legal) as it was very profitable to grow indoors, but indoor growing simply is not economical long term at the commercial level as legalization rolls out... There is plenty of fertile land across the US to grow, there is simply no way to compete with outdoor growers as more places legalize it and people can simply plant it by the acre outside... The short is the indoor growing industry is bound to collapse except for high end vanity strains...

BTW indoor marijuana growing still accounts for about 3% of California's total electricity use and it's wrecking havoc with local water supplies, and California 'imports' about 80% of the legally grown medical marijuana from other States, so the industry is still booming in California...

I knew that. But it was hilarious watching every thug and his brother-in-law trying to get on the bandwagon. We had one down here where a white trash baby mama and her adult son moved in with the baby mama's mother (the baby mama was in her fifties at the time.) Baby boy decided to set up a grow operation on his grandmother's property without her permission, and insisted in doing assorted drugs in her yard, despite grandma's asking them to stop. Grandma called the cops after Baby Mama attacked her for being mean to her son; police entered the yard with Grandma's permission, discovered the illegal drugs and apparently illegal firearms Baby Boy had laid in to "protect" his "crop."

A warrant was issued for Baby Boy.

That night Baby Mama dragged a sledge hammer out of the garage, and beat Grandma to death with it after laying in wait for her to be sitting on the toilet.

I think Baby Mama is the poster child for hanging, drawing, and quartering.

 

[Phage]

Morale of story- don't let skum move into your home.....

 

[alldembirds]

some medical cannabis states require all cannabis to be grown indoor under lock and key, Indoor growing will never be allowed to go away. It may cost more to initially set up indoors but you can have a perpetual harvest versus one outdoor season. thats just what I here.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

some medical cannabis states require all cannabis to be grown indoor under lock and key, Indoor growing will never be allowed to go away. It may cost more to initially set up indoors but you can have a perpetual harvest versus one outdoor season. thats just what I here.

I think California is now trying to require it be grown strictly by the operators of the dispensaries; I don't know about the lock and key part.