Survey of U.S. Home Growers Published. Claims include, "Women make up 61% of cannabis home growers."

[BII]

A fairly extensive survey of US home growers has been published by ILGM. com (I Like Growing Marijuana). Lots of interested results. Cites 3 million home growers in US (or about 1.2% of adult pop.). Do you think this survey is accurate or not, biased or off-base?

Request copy of full results at https://ilgm.com/blog/news/a-look-at-the-state-of-cannabis-home-growing/.

Majority of growers being female goes against all my presumptions; is not reflected in AFN activity; is not reflected in marketing of home growing products; etc.

Majority of respondents apparently had good full-time jobs (not stereotype do-nothing stoners), with average income of $60,000 reported, with overall very high education (>40% with graduate or professional degrees).

Regrettably nothing is reported about the survey itself (making it useless for many uses) - how were respondents sampled/targeted; how many responded (n = ?); what's the presumed statistical accuracy, precision, variance/standard deviation; etc.?

Also, interesting, a federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin. (SAMSHA) survey has reported 33% of adults in Washington, DC (an affluent city, no rural areas; highly educated/66% adults have college degrees, and liberal, e.g., >90% voted for Biden) consume recreational cannabis (I live in MD suburbs, with State gov't survey estimating 25% recreational use state-wide). DC comes in 2 among states, with Vermont first. So DC and VT beat out CA, CO, OR, WA, etc.?

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Majority of growers being female goes against all my presumptions; is not reflected in AFN activity; is not reflected in marketing of home growing products; etc.

Historically we've had many female growers on the forum. Many chose anonymity, because the internet is full of creepy fucks who like to give unsolicited online shoulder rubs and call people "sweetie" and "sugar" because of the presumption of breasts. At one point in time in the past we had a few members sending nudies to each other back and forth on the forum (we won't mention names or how that was found out, but.... ugh. lol.)

As for the rest of the results:

egrettably nothing is reported about the survey itself (making it useless for many uses) - how were respondents sampled/targeted; how many responded (n = ?); what's the presumed statistical accuracy, precision, variance/standard deviation; etc.?

That is unfortunately a major hang-up.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

You hear me @420Forever ? QUIT SENDING ME NUDIES!

 

[KingRatt]

A fairly extensive survey of US home growers has been published by ILGM. com (I Like Growing Marijuana). Lots of interested results. Cites 3 million home growers in US (or about 1.2% of adult pop.). Do you think this survey is accurate or not, biased or off-base?

Request copy of full results at https://ilgm.com/blog/news/a-look-at-the-state-of-cannabis-home-growing/.

Majority of growers being female goes against all my presumptions; is not reflected in AFN activity; is not reflected in marketing of home growing products; etc.

Majority of respondents apparently had good full-time jobs (not stereotype do-nothing stoners), with average income of $60,000 reported, with overall very high education (>40% with graduate or professional degrees).

Regrettably nothing is reported about the survey itself (making it useless for many uses) - how were respondents sampled/targeted; how many responded (n = ?); what's the presumed statistical accuracy, precision, variance/standard deviation; etc.?

Also, interesting, a federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin. (SAMSHA) survey has reported 33% of adults in Washington, DC (an affluent city, no rural areas; highly educated/66% adults have college degrees, and liberal, e.g., >90% voted for Biden) consume recreational cannabis (I live in MD suburbs, with State gov't survey estimating 25% recreational use state-wide). DC comes in 2 among states, with Vermont first. So DC and VT beat out CA, CO, OR, WA, etc.?

I know alot of growers who wont post a pic or search a forum out of fear. In my eyes there are alot more “quiet” growers than the ones that come on forums.

 

[BII]

I know alot of growers who wont post a pic or search a forum out of fear. In my eyes there are alot more “quiet” growers than the ones that come on forums.

So do you presume reported data about cannabis growing and use are undercounted, lower than reality?

[Regarding fear of forums, having long ago had an encounter with DEA and growing still illegal at federal level, I have and will never post pictures of my plants. In this context, all of my AFN contributions are just fictional role playing].

 

[Son of Hobbes]

So do you presume reported data about cannabis growing and use are undercounted, lower than reality?

[Regarding fear of forums, having long ago had an encounter with DEA and growing still illegal at federal level, I have and will never post pictures of my plants. In this context, all of my AFN contributions are just fictional role playing].

Absolutely lower IMO.

 

[KingRatt]

So do you presume reported data about cannabis growing and use are undercounted, lower than reality?

[Regarding fear of forums, having long ago had an encounter with DEA and growing still illegal at federal level, I have and will never post pictures of my plants. In this context, all of my AFN contributions are just fictional role playing].

I absolutely believe they are undercounted. Of the growers i know i. Real life, im the inly one who is public about it, probably because i try my hardest to stay legal and only grow for personal use(i donate alot but i dont sell). Most of the growers i know are in it for profit and keep pretty private about it. Im inly aware because they are life long friends.

 

[BII]

I absolutely believe they are undercounted. Of the growers i know i. Real life, im the inly one who is public about it, probably because i try my hardest to stay legal and only grow for personal use(i donate alot but i dont sell). Most of the growers i know are in it for profit and keep pretty private about it. Im inly aware because they are life long friends.

So, the statistics are missing much of the growers "in it for profit." What percent of US home growers (or whatever group you are familiar with) would you consider to be profit-making? What's the ratio of non- vs. for-profit growers?

"in it for profit." Is this selling a few ounces or growing being the primary source of income?

 

[KingRatt]

So, the statistics are missing much of the growers "in it for profit." What percent of US home growers (or whatever group you are familiar with) would you consider to be profit-making? What's the ratio of non- vs. for-profit growers?

"in it for profit." Is this selling a few ounces or growing being the primary source of income?

I know quite a few that is their main source of income. I just think its still too early in legalization/still illegal for 100% of people to be honest about what they are doing. And what qualifies as a “home grower”? Growing where you live? Any growing that doesnt involve hrly pay? I dont lnow. Interesting tho. Id love to see the real numbers. The first grower i met that was a lady grew some fantastic bud, after getting to know her she told me she felt her flowers were of a higher quality, because the cannabis plant(the part were after anyway) is female, and women know what women need. I thought it was interesting, def qualifies as bro science. But the way she said it, seemed to carry some validity with it.

 

[BII]

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I know quite a few that is their main source of income. I just think its still too early in legalization/still illegal for 100% of people to be honest about what they are doing. And what qualifies as a “home grower”? Growing where you live? Any growing that doesnt involve hrly pay? I dont lnow. Interesting tho. Id love to see the real numbers. The first grower i met that was a lady grew some fantastic bud, after getting to know her she told me she felt her flowers were of a higher quality, because the cannabis plant(the part were after anyway) is female, and women know what women need. I thought it was interesting, def qualifies as bro science. But the way she said it, seemed to carry some validity with it.

Perhaps along the lines of women being better growers of female flowers, some people just grow plants better than others, "have a green thumb." [I know I don't].