Photography by Michelle Slatalla.
I was at a marijuana dispensary in Berkeley not long ago where the budtender told me about a legendary California hybrid called Blue Dream Through the magic of botany...
...she said this cultivar ameliorated the bad effects of both of the main strains of cannabis sativa anxiety paranoia sleeplessness and indica dopiness general stupidity while heightening their desired effects
Can you even grow marijuana in a sneaker?
My Blue Dream seedling came home in its starter plug made of rockwool (a mix of basalt rock and chalk). It wasn’t peer pressure, exactly, but some of my best friends were doing it–and that had put the idea in my head.
So I fired up Yelp one afternoon and zeroed in on a local doctor who specialized in such matters.
My marijuana seedling, Day 1. I told her truthfully that I had trouble sleeping sometimes, and that I did not like taking prescription sleep medicine.
A guard in sunglasses who was patrolling the parking lot checked my permit, then waved me inside the building, where a receptionist phoned the Telepsychiatry Network doctor to receive verbal authorization–SOP requires “new patients” to establish their bonafides at dispensaries.
My seedling finds a new home in the garden. Coming next: Where do you get gardening advice when what you are growing is marijuana?