Marijuana Experts, Activists Give Advice on Legally Growing, Obtaining Weed Before Retail Stores Open

Ask a Massachusetts marijuana activist for arboreal advice on what to do if you're growing it and you'll get this key piece of guidance: Do not electrocute yourself.

He didn't lead with that, but it remains solid advice, whether tied to growing marijuana or anything else.

"My suggestion to people who want marijuana here in Massachusetts is it would be very smart of them to grow it themselves," Bill Downing, the longtime activist, said at the outset of the interview.

This means, however, you are co-mingling three things that don't co-mingle very well, he added: Water, human beings and electricity for the indoor garden.

"I would suggest they be very, very careful," Downing said.

According to Downing and other marijuana activists, people can attempt to grow a small amount using relatively ordinary lighting, but if you want to grow more than a plant or two, and you want to grow...

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