How does your garden grow?
By JESSICA GREENE
Updated 2:22 PM PDT, Fri, Jan 29, 2010

There's a new store in East Oakland that's sure to draw a huge cloud of controversy.

The building just down the way from the Oakland Airport is the newest place to pick up gear for growing medical marijuana. But iGrow isn't just a cramped, out of the way space.

The 15,000-square foot warehouse is a one-stop shop for everything cannabis cultivation -- from lights and fans to fertilizer and additives. An on-site doctor will issue recommendations and technicians will be on-hand to teach prospective growers how to get their roots into the business.

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Your very own marijuana growing operation is just a purchase away

LORI PREUITT

Updated 6:49 PM PDT, Mon, Apr 12, 2010

Ever since voters passed Prop. 215 in 1996, the use of marijuana for medical purposes has been technically legal here in California.

There are cannabis clubs up and down the state where sick people with a prescription can purchase pot as medicine.

Now there is even a new marijuana mega store in Oakland called iGrow that is being called a Wal-Mart for weed. The 15,000-square-foot warehouse is a one-stop shop for everything connected to cannabis cultivation but the seeds. An on-site doctor issues recommendations and technicians provide hands on lessons to prospective growers.

 

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