Grow shops
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Grow shops, also known as head shops, are retail stores in which people can acquire drug paraphernalia for the cultivation and consumption of cannabis, also known as marijuana.
Products and supplies
In a grow shop there are products like: indoor growing lamps / light bulbs, fans, pollinators, pots, fertilizers, seeds and other manufacturers and many other products for indoor and outdoor growing.
History
In 1619, America's first marijuana law was enacted Plant Two Weeks Into Flowering Clone at Jamestown Colony, Virginia, ordering all farmers to make trial of grow Indian hemp seed. In the 1950s, marijuana became very popular amongst the college community. Grow shops is another terminology for head shops. American head shops originated in the 1960s in cities with a high concentration of college-age youth.
Customers
The research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reveals that there has been a sharp rise in recent years in domestic cultivation, particularly in hydroponics home-grown. It appears a new breed of gardener has emerged. But rather than messing about in the back garden they spend their time in the cupboard under the stairs tending their plants. In their case the answer doesn't lie in the soil but in trays of water under lights as their crop is produced hydroponically, without soil. The rise in home-grown has led to a thriving hydroponics business , which is available from European -based companies, and specialist growing equipment which is legally available from gardening outlets, "hydroponic growshops", and over the internet. The research by South Bank University's and the national addiction centre at Kings College, London, is partly based on interviews with 37 home cultivators, mainly men in their 20s and 30s. Most had jobs or were students.
The types identified were:
• Sole-use growers: cultivate indoor as a money-saving hobby, for personal use. Have 12 to 24 plants, using natural fertilisers and soil mixtures more often than hydroponics.
• Medical growers: motivated by therapeutic value. All those interviewed were supplying multiple scelerosis sufferers and had been charged by police.
• Social growers: grow to ensure good-quality supply for themselves and their friends. They give it away or charge nominal price. Average two dozen plants.
• Social/commercial growers: grow for profit but restrict sales to social networks. Motivation is to supplement income. Have between two and 100 plants.
• Commercial growers: sell to any customer. Grow their own crops to guarantee high quality to secure supply and premium prices. All use hydroponics. One said he earned £2,500 a month out of it.
It seems that no matter how hard law enforcement comes down on grow shops and other cultivators of marijuana; the practice still goes on as long as the people demand marijuana.
References
- http://www.ukcia.org/culture/history/chrono.php
- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=p&tbs=tl:1&q=timeline+of+marijuana+grow+shops&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
- http://www.independent.ie/national-news/head-shops-booming-as-row-rages-over-legal-highs-2052072.html
- http://www.christianlawjournal.com/featured-articles/first-u-s-marijuana-cafe-opens-in-oregon/
- http://www.cannabisnews.org/united-states-cannabis-news/us-marijuana-growers-cutting-into-profits-of-mexican-traffickers/
- The research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation domestic cultivation and home-grown [1]*
