How to Grow Legal Marijuana with Hydroponics

In 1996, California voters overwhelmingly supported the Compassionate Use Act, which allows for legal use of marijuana for people who possess or cultivate marijuana for a patient's medical purposes with physician approval. However, federal law still makes the buying and selling of marijuana a serious crime. How, then, is a person supposed to attain their legal marijuana? By using a hydroponics grow system to grow marijuana in an indoor garden.

Hydroponics is the science of growing plants in using technology such as grow boxes and indoor lighting and watering system. The yield of a hydroponic garden may be five to seven times as much as a traditionally grown plant because the plant is not subjected to the stress and fluctuations they would encounter outside. This means that a person who needs legal marijuana year round could grow a garden that produces in every season without subjecting themselves to scrutiny from legal organizations or risking buying their legal marijuana from the black market.

Growing healthy plants in a grow box is easy thanks to modern technology. Many grow boxes can be completely closed, and double as a beautiful piece of furniture. Sophisticated lighting systems ensure that the plant always receives the optimal amount of heat and light. Although hydroponic systems use water in a different way than traditional gardening systems, on the whole they use less water, less pesticides, and less fertilizers while still producing a much higher yield.

Hydroponics is not a new science. Once used by the Egyptian pharaohs, this way of growing larger, healthier plants using fewer resources is becoming a popular choice in countries that lack the land, the sunlight, or the warm weather needed for outdoor agriculture. It is a legitimate science that is in a constant state of development and growth both for legitimate and less than legal causes.

People who grow legal marijuana are committing an act of compassion and caring for the people who would otherwise suffer without the drug they need to treat their illness. There is no reason for these Good Samaritans to be penalized for their good citizenship and mercy toward the less fortunate. Growing a hydroponic garden allows this good work to go on without unwanted attention.