Last year I spent about $4,000, got .....mmmmmmmm NOTHING! but this year I've only spent about a grand and I will probably get ....mmmmmm NOTHING again! Growing pot is going to be a WHOLE lot more expensive than you ever dreamed, take more of your time and love than you can imagine, consume your thoughts day and night throughout the entire grow and then you have another month of drying and three months of curing before you even get to smoke it. Yeah, you can smoke it earlier but it's not it's best and with this much money, time and love, you're going to want it at it's very best. On the upside, it will be better than any weed you've ever smoked (unless you plant bagseed from schwag). Start with some good quality seeds from one of the seed company's you'll find mentioned here, get you a good (large multi-spectrum) CFL light and a bag of Fox Farms soil, a couple of grow bags and pray that your babies come up girls and make it through to bud before you kill them. I can't even begin to articulate how easy it is to fuck up your plants by tending to them too much - and they die.