How much money can you make growing weed?

by dope smoker on November 6, 2009

Growing weed is lucrative, as you may already know. But just how lucrative?

How much money can you for instance make with a spare room? A recent program on the BBC ‘hash in the attic’ revealed all:

You could have 3 or 4 plants in a wardrobe, generating £2-300 every 3 or 4 months.

Using a spare room you can generate £10-15k ($16-24k) ever year.

You could generate 1 kilo every ten weeks, selling a little to friends (that’s what the program said!)

If you used a whole house you could have 5 crops per year at around £15k per crop – adding up to a pretty massive £70k ($116k) per year.

Industrial operations can easily make £400k ($663k) per year. That would be generating 30-50 kilos per crop. Each crop could be worth around £120k.

Another interesting fact the program brought up was that 1900 cannabis plants can make a huge £500k ($829k) every eight weeks!

And it’s so easy to buy your own cannabis seeds! Maybe they are trying to tell us something.

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  • john

    is this a joke? this is more illegal than rape.

  • http://www.dope-smoker.co.uk dope smoker

    I’m not quite sure how one thing is more illegal than another – it is either legal or it is not.

    I think if you look at the harm caused to people from either one rape is a whole lot worse than growing some weed.

    It’s a plant, and if you have some space I would encourage you to grow some. It can save you having to come into contact with those ‘criminal elements’ that the government force us to go to by making a plant unlawful.

    So no, it’s not a joke, it’s quite useful information actually.

    And obviously, growing it is one thing. Moving it all, in such large amounts is a completely different affair (though certainly not impossible).

  • http://TBC anon for now

    very nice blog DP
    soon to come a website for activism – incredible how slow we all got politically here in the uk. look at norml in the US… – Nu labour has betrayed the pot people

  • Dick Smallington

    @dope smoker
    true shit, I like to save my weed seeds and put them in the dirt at random places I go. I’m kind of like a modern day Jonny Appleseed, if you will.

  • http://www.dope-smoker.co.uk dope smoker

    Thanks anon, I’m ready to help fight the good fight!

  • don

    @Dick Smallington
    sure, i will

  • Stoke me a clipper ill be back for breakfast

    I grew some hydroponicly (6 plant crops a few times in my cupboard)
    the cuttings were from a top quality Big Bud mother plant and those fuckers yielded huge returns.
    Kept them small and compact via pruning/cutting back and they ended up as 1 massive bud
    bout 2 oz a plant :D

    Hydropnics is easy to set up and maintain.real anal growers will say you have to have the PH at exactly 7,you must clean and re-feed the water every few days and have temprature control & fans etc

    Yes this is true but for a small scale operation in a cupboard then it really isnt an issue.
    Afterall weed and most variants are actually weeds and will thrive as long as they have light/CO2 and nutrients (either via hydroponics or the old fashioned potted with compost type)

  • Commonsense

    @john

    Illegal does not = wrong, Legal does not = Right

  • http://www.dope-smoker.co.uk dope smoker

    Never a truer word (or two) spoken.

  • Eliu Sarante

    @Dick Smallington
    Is it still good bud thou?

  • http://www.weed-seed-shop.co.uk/ Mr Ian

    And if they made the wardrobe legal, problem solved, everyones happy. :D

  • dean

    arrrrrrrrr the romance. i think most smokers like to ponder the idea of growing, but sit and think carefully, have u a loose tong, do u like showing off, have u got warrants, have u got gas/electric checks, do u have a private landlord? the list is endless, growing in this economic climate is risky stuff, also there are plenty of random events that can bring your grow to the attention of the law. what im saying is just flirt with the idea of doing a bit of jail, cause dude u gotta be prepared to do the crime and do the time (like me)and to finish this little chapter of realism if u own your home and have alott of STUFF they can confiscate the Lot under proceeds of crime(twats leave u with nothing)in it great growing, wait theres some one banging on my door……………………………………

  • Jason

    Haha that’s funny u can make 12.grand every 3 months from just 2md100 trays and 2 600 watt lite in a decent size bedroom!!!!

  • http://www.dope-smoker.co.uk Andy

    Mad eh?

    It’s such an established illegal market now, thanks to prohibition.

    If you have a big private back garden you could probably do the same with virtually no costs..

  • Charmappin

    More illegal than rape….I don’t think you would be spouting that if your sister, mother, or wife was brutally raped.  Nothing to joke about a-hole.

  • trueblu8

     I think he means that you would get more jail time if you were caught growing than you would if you actually raped somebody.  Yes our priorities and justice system are pretty screwed up when growing or selling weed is considered more serious and more deserving of jail time than raping somebody.

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