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Escape

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  Writing is hard. Marijuana is an escape. Often marijuana is an escape from the work of writing. Judgment, people judge themselves, especially when they read over their own material. I am not talking about editing. Checking for grammar mistakes, spelling errors, when I discuss writing, I am talking about pulling the memories out of your brain the way a body builder lifts more weights to increase the size of his shoulders. Marijuana has been known to suppress the pain. Marijuana has been known to mellow the mind so that the body builder doesn't' pay attention to the strain, goal of getting big muscles, to the point that marijuana is often known to be a muscle relaxant. Writing takes the use of memory. The writer counts on his skill to remember how to spell the vocabulary words that make his pages flow with paragraphs. Alcoholics, writers have been know to drink wine, whiskey, and gin. They have been known to write on heroine. I get more jobs from smokers that have tall tales to

Trim Operations

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Stoners, the statement was degrading, blunt to the point of fault, the owner said in her tone, attitude, and disregard, when I asked how she hired and who she hired, "I find weak people with an addiction to drugs, a criminal record, a disposition to work only with marijuana, and I make them an offer they can't refuse. I hire people that are addicted. I find people that have few hopes, no choices, or just like to work around cannabis. I will never forget. To this day, I will never forget. I didn't want to look at people that way when I worked with them. I didn't want anything to do with buying or purchasing her trim operation. Transportation to Henderson, Nevada; Las Vegas, Nevada; I didn't want to do that to another business owner. I learned that it was best not to get involved. The investments. The deals. Multi-million dollar corporations are bankrupt. I saw it. I was there. I saw the worst characters in the business. I watched government leaders, politicians, and

Stoner

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Once in Denver, a Colorado trim operation wanted to sell to a company in Las Vegas, Nevada. The primary leaders came to me, flew out to meet me in Las Vegas, then I drove to Denver to inspect their operation. My job was to sell the entire operation to a Nevada based business. Henderson, Nevada, south of Las Vegas, Henderson had the space that they wanted to farm in. I was puzzled. The owner of the Denver based business said something that did not feel right - Her tone did not feel appropriate. I asked questions. Many questions were answered with cheer. Honesty was everywhere as I toured the building. Then I met the employees. Went to the next business with employees. Asked them questions. Enjoying the adventure of learning, I was enthusiastic about meeting the team of trimmers. I asked the owner, "How to find these workers?" Where did they come from? I wanted to know how to encourage a work force to trim marijuana plants. I wanted to know how I would hire my staff. How do I f

Bankruptcy

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Marijuana Dominatrix, the name Dominatrix, was for products revolving around THC. Marijuana Mistress was for products surrounded by the CBD industry of oils, cosmetics, and basic consumption. The business model for many marijuana companies was to take the money and run in the same way that many drug dealers dealt with marijuana on the black market before marijuana became legal instead of criminal. As I write these words before the Thanksgiving holiday season, marijuana companies are going bankrupt. The streets are filled with lies, rumors, and deals made that expose crimes against investors. Investors see the truth only after they find that they will never gain their interest. The money is lost. Gone forever. Greed. Promises. People did not do business. They didn't question the business plans. They stopped being skeptical. What is the plan? Where are the weaknesses? What are the threats?  Written by Thomas Chee  This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names,

Articles

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  The magazine articles took off, because I was traveling, and gaining stories from outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. Readers in Las Vegas were sick of reading about Las Vegas. Hollywood readers were sick of stories in Southern California. If you write about Missouri, readers in Los Angeles will pay attention to the magazine article. If you write about Las Vegas, readers in San Francisco will be more interested in readers in Las Vegas. Photography was the same; San Francisco readers loved to see female models from Las Vegas. Models in Las Vegas wanted to take photographs on San Francisco cable cars, coastlines, add portraits of them on the beach, Golden Gate Bridge, and I was getting out of town. Covering stories from other angles. Thinking out of the box. Going the extra mile paid off. The magazines were taking my articles. The models were traveling with me. San Diego models worked on stories from Las Vegas, Nevada. Sonoma County models were meeting me for photographs in San Francisco'

Messages

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The photographs conveyed a message. The story was about fashion models expressing themselves to get jobs at the Las Vegas expo. This is an example. Another example would be, a photographer met fashion models while photographing models for book covers involving murder mysteries. These covers to the fiction novels took guns, dangerous, sharp knives with steel razor designs, ominous curves, and the message with a guitar conveyed music. Music with danger. Rock and Roll was dangerous. Risk was taken by the musicians. Practice without a hit and the band with break up before they quit. I took photographs that got the message across. I was a popular photographer in Santa Barbara, California. I had access to Hollywood talent. Hollywood studios let me use their area in exchange for websites that I web designed for the directors, casting agents, and studio producers. On the side, I did websites for motorcycle shops, secretaries that had clothing companies as side hustles to work a side job, and t

Dangerous

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  Emerald Triangle Northern California Marijuana Tours : Would anybody like to join me in a hike through the grow in the marijuana mountains of the Emerald Triangle this summer? June is here. I am dancing in the streets of San Francisco this weekend at the Haight Ashbury Parade. My friends and I plan on taking a morning hike under the Golden Gate Bridge before we go to breakfast in Sausalito. Drive north through the vast wineries along the river roads with cannabis dispensaries in Sonoma County, Mendocino, and up to Arcata. Trails of marijuana by nurseries filled with flower along the Avenue of the Giants, a redwood grove filled with the largest trees on the planet. The Emerald Triangle is the region where I was raised that produces more marijuana than can be found anywhere on the globe. Over 10,000 square miles. My friends and I hiked and fished in the rivers for fun. We camped with the community YMCA. The space is over 10,200 square miles with the world’s largest marijuana grow. Las