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DR. EARTH® GARDENING GUIDE DR. EARTH® GARDENING GUIDE
Whether you are a home grower or a consumer,
or do not care to ever see it or talk about it, it’s
important to know why sustainably grown
cannabis is simply the right thing to do. We
are all impacted by how cannabis is grown
commercially. It’s a big industry that has a large
carbon footprint. We can choose to look down
and walk away, or we can choose to care, and
take steps to assist those companies who care
as much as we do. We want to support all
growers, in every eld, to grow with a small
carbon foot-print with no pollution.
Our connection to cannabis, just like our food,
is important. If you use cannabis, for any number
of reasons, then “our connection to cannabis”
becomes equally as important. Whether we
grow it all with our home grown and organic
methods, or we buy it from a convenience store,
which is just around the corner, I suspect, the
company you support matters.
If we are putting something into our body; where
it comes from really matters. As more and larger
corporations get involved in the legalization of cannabis,
and profit from it, the basic fact remains, what we put into
our bodies has not changed. The companies that make
fertilizer or soil products, or even, the packaged cannabis
elixirs we buy to soothe our aching joints really matter.
If you are already a sustainably conscious person you
will typically know if you are buying a product with a
Fortune 500 company footprint on it, it matters deeply
to you, and to me as well.
I know what companies make my paper towels, and
I know the company that I do not support who makes
paper towels too, because they are making billions of
dollars fracking, and are not the best stewards to the
environment, which is very important to me. Even though
I do not get involved with fracking directly, if I buy their
paper towels, I am supporting fracking, because I have
decided to make the parent company more profits with
that simple decision of what paper towel I buy.
It’s small but it’s big.
I was having a hard time writing this article at first, then
I concluded, it’s my obligation as the founder of Dr. Earth
to put this together, because we are all impacted, as
citizens, by what our neighbors do, and I am very much
for businesses being profitable and very successful. I truly
believe that both can happen. I sincerely believe cannabis
can naturally grow outdoors, in soil, fed organic materials,
using as much recyclable material on site, with good pest
management skills, these old-school growers up in the
hills know what they’re doing, they don’t want to haul
too much stuff back in the woods, its costly and arduous.
Please do not forget, these folks live on this land and treat
it like home. They do not pollute their own backyards
where their families farm.
How large corporations grow cannabis, on a mass
commercial level will impact you, your children and the
environment. This is a very big business and closing your
eyes is not the best approach. Cannabis has now become
very mainstream and large Fortune 500 companies have
entered into this age of "The Legalization of Cannabis"
and many would like to know what tomorrow holds.
My job and responsibilities are very different.
I come from another perspective to this subject. I care
about the environment and about the sustainability of
any and all crops. If you use cannabis to heal yourself or
want to grow a few plants in your backyard, closet, or go
to a dispensary to buy cannabis for recreational purposes,
then it should really matter to you too, because you are
putting something inside of your body and you have the
right to spend your money any way you choose.
If you are putting something inside of your body to heal
aches and pains then it definitely matters. It's common
sense that medical cannabis should be grown with strict
organic methods.
Why grow a low grade plant using synthetic nutrients
and mediums when you intend to grow medicine? It
doesn’t make any sense! If it's medicine, it must be grown
in the soil and it must be organic.
Best of health to you,
Milo Shammas
Founder & Formulator
DISCUSSING
THE ELEPHANT
IN THE ROOM
MEDICINAL GARDENS
THE CANNABIS CONNECTION
CANNABIS
FOR PETS
Pet owners are already using marijuana medicinally to help their suering cats
and dogs, according to a 2013 article in the Journal of the American Veterinary
Medical Association. The cannabis they are taking is helping their pets with a
wide range of ailments – from anxiety to arthritis to cancer.
Sustainably Grown Cannabis