Marijuana Mom and the Cannabis Kid

[The Straight Story]

La Veta, Colorado (CNN) -- The crop has been harvested, and Diane Irwin's secret technique paid off.

"Every morning I would go out and talk to my girls," she said, "pray over them and ask them to provide good medicine."

Her "girls" are marijuana plants destined for her son Jason's medical marijuana dispensary in Denver. At 48, she has just wrapped up her first season as a pot farmer. Her 62 plants yielded 13 pounds.

Irwin spent most of her life as a hairdresser and salon owner in a Denver suburb.

"I was into makeup and high-heeled shoes and fancy clothes and working -- a lot," she said. "I sold my salon and moved down to the country. I wanted a change of pace."

While Mom was looking for a midlife career change, her son was building a medical marijuana business, legal in Colorado since 2000. Diane Irwin loaned him $10,000 from the sale of her salon, and he opened Highland Health, a dispensary where patients who have been certified by the state can buy marijuana.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/11/cannabis.kid/index.html

[WhiteTara]

1. slowly slowly we gain the right to use our

medicine as we see fit.

[MadHound]

2. Wow, 13 pounds off of 62 plants,

She needs to start doing something more than praying and talking to them. A good plant here in the Midwest will yield a pound or more.

[asdjrocky]

4. Depends on indoors or outdoors.

And if it's indoors there are a lot of things to take into consideration.

Now if it's an outdoor crop, yeah, very low yield.

[MadHound]

5. Good point,

I just automatically thought of outdoor planting since she said that she "went out every morning". Could be out to a separate greenhouse or such.

[asdjrocky]

6. It's that whole reading comprehension thing.

Gotta work on that. :smoke:

[Fly by night]

7. Four ounces of bud is what the DEA now accepts as the average yield of a mature cannabis plant.

So Mom wasn't too far off that. There are certainly cultivars and cultivation techniques that can yield much more, but on this one, I think the DEA is right. Four ounces of good bud is a nice harvest from the average full-grown female plant.

[asdjrocky]

3. Proud medical grower here in California checking in.

So freedoms are won very, very slowly.