Scott was not the only one who benefited from it, though. Amy and other family members and friends tried it. “I started taking it and seeing a huge difference in my hands because they were so bad from playing so much guitar,” Amy said. “And then my mom started taking it and her knees got better and then we just started talking about it to our Sweet Adeline (Acapella) friends.” More and more people showed a strong liking of their products. They decided it was time to officially put a name on the products they were creating. After a few days of brainstorming, Scott said the perfect one came to him in his sleep. He had an experience that he’d only ever felt twice in his life. The first time he was “being spoken to from above” and was told to “get ready.” He said he shortly after became an IV drug user. The second time, however, he had a better outcome. He walked away with the name of his company: God’s Green Earth. Amy said she has received several complements Amy Korth showcasing God’s Green Earth products in Breckenridge, Michigan. on the name, and some customers have told her they have chosen them because of it. said. mood and just in my overall happiness,” he said. “I After about six months, a lady he met at the clinic hadn’t smoked at all that day, then I take one hit or Scott hand-grows and hand-trims all the flower, offered him marijuana and he obliged for the first smoke one bowl and come back five minutes later and makes extracts himself, too. Amy makes the and I’m a whole different person.” companies CBD tinctures, balms, mists, capsules, time since he was a teenager. oils, gummies, and other products in their home Scott said Brown “could no longer deny the “She gave me just a couple buds one day – and I along with help from her boyfriend, Dan Cochran. medicinal benefits” of marijuana but the two hadn’t smoked in years – came home, smoked it, and felt more normal than I had… since I had my continued to buttheads as she did not appreciate She also operates the marketing side of the business as Scott prefers to stay in the comfort of the presence or smell in her home. last shot of heroin.” their home. “I would get super defensive,” he said. “I had blowHe said cannabis changed him in nearly every Amy said they make up to $1000 in sales each day outs with my grandma, and I can’t believe that way. with the online store, and she frequents farmer’s happened. I was such a different person. ” “The mood lifting alone from it made me actually markets and other events in the summertime. Scott said it took about a year of him “smoking in able to stay positive enough to get through the Scott emphasizes being a “small-family company medication and Hep C and the withdraw at all the the house every day, her not liking it and giving that produces only small batch stuff and…. will me the face” for her to become comfortable with same time,” he said. not mess up.” He thinks small businesses in the his lifestyle. Scott and his mom began making weekly trips cannabis industry will be “the only way that we “Now, her and her 80-year-old farmer husband to dispensaries an hour or more away, which really benefit as a whole state.” keep bringing articles over about growing hemp became very pricy on Amy’s expense. He said there are a few reasons why the high-qualand they’re really thinking about it,” Amy said. “She would give me like $200 a week and we’d ity marijuana produced by a small-scale grow is “That’s crazy.” drive to Lansing to get weed,” he said. “It became not possible to make in corporate dispensaries. Amy continued to buy Scott marijuana and even just insane throughout the first year of buying “The things we do here in the house are much, started buying CBD products, too, as he noticed weed. Without telling my grandma, I just started much more precise than the corporate places major improvements in his overall wellbeing. But growing some plants up here.” would be doing in huge batches,” he said. “And it got to the point that she simply could not afford But Amy was hesitant for Scott to do so. they can’t give love to every single plant.” it anymore. “My mom is one tough little lady,” she said. “Getting Scott believes the relationship – and love – beher to get on board with this whole idea was very “The amount of money that we were dropping on tween the plant and grower is equally as importweed alone not mentioning the CBD was more difficult. It was very stressful for me when there ant as anything else to help it flourish. was any strife between Scott and mom because I than I was making,” Amy said. “There’s nothing special about the energy of She started to research marijuana, specifically CBD (dispensary) plants anymore because the person was kind of like the peacekeeper.” and learned the chemistry behind its absorption Scott eventually told his grandma, Paula Brown, didn’t put love into it,” he said. “Plants feel vibrain the body. that he was going to get his medical card, but tions just as much as we do… from us touching “I came across water soluble CBD, and I wanted she was against his decision. It was not until they them, us giving them attention every day. With him on it,” she said. “It was going to be 10-times were on a 3-hour road trip to his aunt’s house thousands of plants and hundreds of different when he became “irritable and scared on the road more effective.” growers under one head grower, there’s no one because it was snowy”, that Brown recommended In 2019, she purchased a bulk order of CBD “with person that loves that one plant specifically.” he smoke. her mother’s credit card” to make her very first Scott said he believes the difference is even pres“She saw the radical, drastic difference in my batch of tinctures in “little red bottles.” ent in how bud smokes.
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“I believe that the energy that you get when you smoke (a corporate grown) plant is not as up to par as a plant who’s grown with love,” he said. Scott plans to grow his plants with love for as long as he can. He wants to start working with whole plants instead of isolated cannabinoid compounds because it is “so much more effective in the body.” “It would have THC, CBN, CBG, all of the cannabinoids come in the plant,” he said. “Instead of somebody growing the plant, extracting each cannabinoid individually, selling them, and then we put them back together, why would we go through all that when we could just extract it from a whole plant in the first place?” He said he really wants to get more THC into consumers bodies because “people that are getting effects of just CBD alone don’t even understand how much more it would help if there was just 1% THC in there.” Scott and Amy have also started growing, and studying, mushrooms. The first, and only, mushroom they have grown so far is called Pink Oyster. “We feel like they were pretty successful, but we know some things we did wrong as well,” Amy said. They both have their own plans for mushroom-based products they want to make in the future. Amy wants to develop a CBD-mushroom tincture and Scott wants to make psylocibin mushroom micro-dose tinctures – dependent upon decriminalization – “for people just to take tiny, tiny, tiny amounts to really help rewire the brain.” Scott said he someday wants to expand his side of the business by adding more plants – but that would require relocating because he is currently generating all the electricity possible from their house. “With the tents that I have, I literally can’t run any more power,” he said. “And being completely surrounded by houses in our backyard and the apartments on the far side, I don’t want to grow and have my whole crop get ripped off at the end of the season. That would just break my heart.” Because of that, he wants to buy his own land somewhere in the lower part of Michigan where he can “do a proper full-scale hemp and cannabis grow.” Scott said he ideally wants a pole barn in which he can grow premium plants year-round indoors and lower-grade bud outside. “I also want to have animals,” he said. “I want milk animals, and more chickens, lambs, and goats… I want a cow; I pretty much have to have a horse.” But until that day comes, Scott remains working hard, alongside his mom, in their First Street home, growing, producing, and selling high quality CBD and THC products for all those living on God’s Green Earth.
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