Things I ponder

[sssssssssss]

i especially dislike when scientists edit two pages in their textbooks just so they can tack on nth edition, making the n-1 edition obsolete requiring us to shell out a hundred dollars for two new sentences. assholes.

 

[superelephant]

There is no cure for cancer, and cannabis def is not it. Even if pure THC may inhibit the growth of SOME types of cancer cells, smoking anything will cause cancer. Rick Simpson is a quack for telling people to stop their mainstream cancer treatment and that all you need is THC. Thats bullshit. I believe in the health benefits of cannabis but the medical industry in the US also makes me sick.

Trillions of dollars have been spent on cancer research and there is still no cure, only treatments. And at todays point in time cancer can be a very manageable and controllable thing with all of the advances where in the past, maybe 60 years ago, cancer was sure death for the individual. Pharmaceutical companies can't make a profit if the drug they develop doesn't work and isn't effective. Most of that money went towards the research and development of things that didn't work as expected.

If cannabis were federally legal i guarantee these companies will put an enormous amount of money into the development of many different pharmaceutical grade drugs derived from cannabis aimed to treat a number of illnesses or pain very specifically. As with the developmental stage of any drug most of them will not work as intended or have too many side effects. The small number that do come of the process will have to make up for the money spent trying all of the other times. Thats why Pharmaceutical drugs are so expensive. If someone goes every week to a dispensary to buy a quarter of the Sour Diesel to blaze up, they are just getting high. Thats ok, but its a mockery of the medical community by using it as a front to hustle weed. Medical marijuana should go through the same process all other drugs do. Otherwise you end up with chemical and mold ridden so called, "medicine". These things should be done in more of laboratory setting just like anything else.

so, did this actually happen?

 

[panic in paradise]

It strikes me ponderous the thought of how marijuana has been studied more then any other plant in existence.

 

[L2R]

^do you include getting stoned and staring at your plants for hours on end under the title of "study"?

 

[panic in paradise]

^do you include getting stoned and staring at your plants for hours on end under the title of "study"?

yes.


A marijuana plant is very much like the human body and the universe, what is to be learned from that is outtasight !


If you have grown marijuana, or any plant from seed, you might notice using blue light will cause more female plants where as red will cause more males. Thats kind of a big deal, there are other factors but, light is a creative force and doing more then only smoking pot can help to make this clear.

 

[L2R]

but aint that just cuz it's easier to see pink bits under a blue light rather than a red one

 

[panic in paradise]

the red light would draw out the pink more lol


but i see what you mean
:D

a marijuana plants sex can be manipulated this way, if the light cycle becomes altered suddenly or if there is a light leak during their night-cycle they can become a hermaphrodite and breed amongst them-self...there are numerous "land race" plants which are the archetype per se of genetically manipulated homegrown plants. Growers at home breeding plants with out considering their chromosomal structure can alter other pants in a negative way easily by pollinating others with in miles of their personal grow, or if pollen is on the clothes it can travel from there to great distances as well. But the plants ability to adapt and back-breed amongst itself is astounding.

NSFW:

DNA markers in Cannabis
Today, the concept of Cannabis as a monotypic genus is widely accepted; taxonomical, morphological, and biometrical studies confirm the continuity of its gene pool despite the extremely high variation found within and between populations (SMALLet al. 1976 Down; DE MEIJER and KEIZER 1996 Down). In the last few years, the existence of just a single species within the genus has been confirmed by molecular marker studies that show a limited segregation of the different groups within the genus Cannabis and an extremely high degree of polymorphism, estimated to be of the same magnitude within and between populations (FAETI et al. 1996 Down; FORAPANIet al. 2001 Down). Within some of the best-known hemp cultivars, e.g., Carmagnola, the degree of polymorphism was estimated by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers to involve ∼80% of the markers scored, and the data suggested a huge reservoir of variation within even the most selected Cannabis strains considered during the study. Finally, within the dioecious populations, the presence of a high number of male-specific markers, presumably associated with the Y chromosome, was found by RAPD and amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis (MANDOLINOet al. 1999 Down, MANDOLINOet al. 2002 Down; FLACHOWSKYet al. 2001 Down)
http://www.genetics.org/content/163/1/335.full

 

[SpinOutOfControl]

Marc Emery wrote:
"Whenever I asked Rick Simpson to write about his work, or engaged other journalists and writers to write about Rick Simpson, and finally when I tried to do it myself, Simpson never co-operated. I could never get actual names and phone numbers of patients who were allegedly "cured". I never could see any so-called sworn affidavits. I could never interview any patients. I could never get the formula used, or the strain, or anything specific whatsoever. That is why no journalist has been able to write about Simpson, he is unverifiable, in his claims, his patients, his documentation, everything, really. No solid paperwork either.

Secondly, its cowardice to stay in Europe when Simpson should, to me, obviously come back and prove his claims in court. Lets have the "cured" patients in court, lets see the affidavits, lets have the science and the evidence submitted in court. If Simpson's claims are true, he stands a good chance of making a great case of historical precedents.

That Simpson wouldn't want to return to Canada is suspicious to me. You don't get "hero" status or folk legend or pioneer accolades by running away. He is not being sought by US authorities, its a local raid, its his third raid/charge, but it by no means is an undesirable situation. Putting Simpson in jail for cultivation still seems very unlikely, especially since Bill C-15 is not yet law. There is a great potential for a medical necessity defense. There are all sorts of opportunities to educate the entire nation in an extensive defense, bringing in the "cured" as witnesses, all of them will be compelling....if all the claims made by Simpson are true.

I find Simpson a bit of an odd fellow. When he was raising money to travel across North America to promote his "oil", they claimed to need $300,000 to do the tour, and they raised only $3,000, so it was called off. I couldn't believe this $300,000 figure they claimed to be trying to raise. Jodie & I traveled to 30 Canadian cities across Canada for about $17,000 over 2 months from St. John's to Victoria, and I told them this amount of money they claimed to need was outlandish for a tour, and absurd to try to get this amount raised for what would be a simple speech at the public library in selected cities."

 

[SpinOutOfControl]

"Marc Emery wrote:
"Whenever I asked Rick Simpson to write about his work, or engaged other journalists and writers to write about Rick Simpson, and finally when I tried to do it myself, Simpson never co-operated. I could never get actual names and phone numbers of patients who were allegedly "cured". I never could see any so-called sworn affidavits. I could never interview any patients. I could never get the formula used, or the strain, or anything specific whatsoever. That is why no journalist has been able to write about Simpson, he is unverifiable, in his claims, his patients, his documentation, everything, really. No solid paperwork either.

Secondly, its cowardice to stay in Europe when Simpson should, to me, obviously come back and prove his claims in court. Lets have the "cured" patients in court, lets see the affidavits, lets have the science and the evidence submitted in court. If Simpson's claims are true, he stands a good chance of making a great case of historical precedents.

That Simpson wouldn't want to return to Canada is suspicious to me. You don't get "hero" status or folk legend or pioneer accolades by running away. He is not being sought by US authorities, its a local raid, its his third raid/charge, but it by no means is an undesirable situation. Putting Simpson in jail for cultivation still seems very unlikely, especially since Bill C-15 is not yet law. There is a great potential for a medical necessity defense. There are all sorts of opportunities to educate the entire nation in an extensive defense, bringing in the "cured" as witnesses, all of them will be compelling....if all the claims made by Simpson are true.

I find Simpson a bit of an odd fellow. When he was raising money to travel across North America to promote his "oil", they claimed to need $300,000 to do the tour, and they raised only $3,000, so it was called off. I couldn't believe this $300,000 figure they claimed to be trying to raise. Jodie & I traveled to 30 Canadian cities across Canada for about $17,000 over 2 months from St. John's to Victoria, and I told them this amount of money they claimed to need was outlandish for a tour, and absurd to try to get this amount raised for what would be a simple speech at the public library in selected cities."