The state you are in may have a webpage with listed counties who are accepting commercial grow permits. I would start there.
Actually I'm a very experienced grower... just in illegal states.
Stake a claim.......not get rich quick
There are people who have lived in those states for years trying to do exactly what he is and can't. Not to mention the amount of money and time it takes to do it....even if all that goes perfect then comes the actual growing part. Then an outlet for the crops. Then the price of your flowers if they don't stand out way above the rest. I've seen way more lose their ass and end up in trouble than I have make it. I do know one rich guy from it. He was literally the first guy in and grows amazing flowers.
This is the only way you will find out if what you want to do is possible unless you get a paralegal or lawyer on retainer to do it for you.
I have a friend in the tropical plant business. They already have greenhouses, a trained work force, a state wide shipping network {they sell world wide, but run their own trucks in Florida} and are well connected with the GOP in Tallahassee. When they looked into growing under the new Florida Medical laws, they quickly decided it was not worth the cash outlay. It would just take too long to make back your investment, and as fast as laws are changing, they might not ever get the chance.
I appreciate the google advice, I have tried that. Unfortunately there are so many sites saying something is this but when you look at the counties site its completely different or changed recently. So for the first time ever in doing research I stoped using google. I was hoping for some insight/tips/or advice from some ppl who are in the business or are close to it.
Thanks I appreciate it, I do have decent capital Id say around 100k at the moment, as far as indoors goes I'm not looking for that, maybe down the road but not now. My experience is with greenhouses so I want to stick with that.
Far northern California is where you want to look. There are many places for rent or lease. prices range from 5,000-25,000 a season. Lots of outdoor wayyyyyy in cuts. If you get in with those people, there are many routes you could take out there.
Yeah for sure NorCal is where I want to be not because of Humboldt or Mendocino counties but because its a much more beautiful country up there..
I have friends who grow for a living in Oregon. Only one of them is mostly legal, the rest are still mostly black market. The growing is just a small part of it now. They have to make clones, fill carts, squish flowers or whatever else will make a buck. The price of top shelf flowers has done a nose dive. Everyone of them but the legal one are just barely keeping their heads above water. And he has about a dozen irons in the fire. These are guys who have grown weed for a living for the last 15-20 years. They didn't forget everything they knew, the price just went to hell. and now there are fees for every little thing having to do with your grow. The joke is that pot is the new zucchini. You can't give it away.
I know some folks who were able to buy land in NorCal. Their first year was pretty rocky getting up and running where there was no infrastructure, but they made it though in one piece {with the help of some more established friends}. Not a great crop, but not terrible. This year they had some trouble with employees. Not sure how it turned out, but two bad years in a row is not easy to overcome. Banks don't really care about bad luck, and if they can't pay the loan, they will lose two years of labor, all greenhouses and other equipment they put into it, plus the down payment.