no offense to your BS is Mngt, but i know ALOT of college educated idiots. not saying your one yourself, but just cuz you have a BS dont mean diddly in reality. its about a person drive and desire to succeed after the find something they have an solid interest in.
anyone can be a CEO of a multimillion dollar corporation. take bill gates, dan quale, or even gwb. just saying a paper on the wall only shows you followed the rules outlined by those making the rules, whether or not your good at what those papers say, is unique to each individual that has them. your milliage may vary.
with that said, your suggestion for the op, considering he IS in college, is spot on.
i have 13 inches of GirlOnly Surprise, but that doesnt mean i can use it, which i Can just to answer any of the girls finale questions. heh.
first and formost, Cannabis is a Weed, literally. It is in the Weed Family of plants. and like pretty much any weed, it grows naturally, wildly, and pretty much anywhere that can sustain pretty much any form of above water plant life. and if lef to do its thing, with the things it generally needs, it ll grow to fruition, propigate, and spreads its loving goodness the next growing season. then repeat the process. not much of a mystery if you ask me.
the only mystery to growing quality cannabis, is why everyone says its so hard to be a quality cannabis grower. which to anwer, is if you, jon q public, swallows the pill that it is hard to grow, then you're more likely to never try, thus not realize how incredibly easy it CAN BE to grow quality cannabis, thus take potential future profits away in 2 forms. 1st, you no longer need to buy, cuz you know growing isnt a mystery, and 2, any potential customers you help realize how non mysterious it is to grow cannabis, or worse yet, the stealing of money, by you fullfilling another persons medicinal needs, and making the money, instead of them, regardless of your fair of outrageous price as it may be. or whether you give it away after cost, and a fair cost of labor is deducted.
if you have ever grown a garden, and kept simple vegatative plants alive with relatively good health and have ate the harvest of that garden and liked what you ate, you can grow cannabis. of course it can be as complicated or as simple as you want it to be.
i agree calis ect is a harder area. other mmj legal states are newer, and more are voting to legalize in 2012s vote. its a fine time to enter the market imo. like any business, one of the major factors to success is location, location, location. and then business direction.
i ll leave you with one last thing to think about.
if mother nature was your mom, and she was growing any sort of above water plantlife, but doing it indoors, what would she do? find that out, and move it inside. apply your prior growing skills and start out slow/small at first.
i have 35 years into the college of life. plenty of paper on the walls, have it all painted light blue in this room.