The major aspect that changed the whole cannabis activism and made it work was the opening of the cannabis buyers club by Dennis Peron in 1993. As far as major hurdles I feel as we do have popular acceptance. Look a Florida with legalization marijuana legalization won by a higher margin than any other politician. The main place it doesn’t have acceptance would be with politicians, and also marijuana helps you develop critical thinking and politicians fear this because they realize how corrupt the system is.
I have one suggestion for politicians…If they want to go to war let them be the ones that lead the battle. Draft their son’s and daughters and put them in the first lines and not an executive position. Stop sending children to die or go back wounded.
i am in contact with research being done in the volcani research facility in israel and from what i know its not a successful process for now. different varieties require different protocols and the technic is far from being commercialised. correct me if i am wrong
Last week UCLA announced research trials into furthering understanding of the endogenous cannabinoid system as it pertains to regulation of glucose. This is a major step forward.
Do you think people are truly appreciating the value and power inherent in the endocannabinoid system that resides within our bodies? Do you feel that western medicine has accepted the cross functionality of the ECS and its incredible power to regulate other internal systems?
In a population of plants of the same variety some plants are more likely than others to develop pollen sacs late in flowering. Like wise when chemically or stress induced some plants produce in a population produce more flowers than others. I theorize that these plants are more likely to have a hermie tendencies or monoecious tendencies. If females are plants are produced from this those tendencies won’t be expressed during the first generation. However, when all female seeds are produced from these plants there is a more inadvertent concentration of hermaphroditism which is more likely to show up in the second generation. One way to decrease the likely hood of that happening is to use pollen from the plants that produce the fewest number of flowers that they may be likely to carry less of a hermie tendency.
When a particular system or chemical has been preserved through evolution from invertebrates through vertebrate tissue and including humans then it must have a core use by organisms.
Hi Ed. With legalization, there is a burgeoning rift (I"m not sure what else to call it) between large-scale commercial grows and small-time home-growers. I don’t necessarily see it as a bad or even as an antagonistic thing… I am curious about your thoughts regarding the future of the home-grower. I see it as a huge with lots of people getting on board, tho in comparison, there are not so many home brewers, and even fewer home tobacco growers - relative to the commercial producers… Whats your take (in like 45 words or less, lolz)?
What do you see as necessary developments to keep the cannabis industry in the hands of the cannabis industry? in other words, what do you think has to be done to be able to keep the likes of Big Ag and Big Pharma, held at bay, as it will be impossible to keep them out completely But is there a strategy that keeps the people whose blood, sweat and tears build this industry in the hands of those people. Already we see too much “corporate america” infiltrating the industry, so that the C-suite and boards of the big cannabis companies look like wall street.
With increasing financial investment in commercial cannabis, can you comment on the relationship between growers, financiers and company executives in commercial grow ops?
What works, what doesn’t and what recommendations can you give to growers to help these different worlds of cultivation, finance and business become successful together?
Are you concerned about the influence of the Big Ag model on cannabis biodiversity with legalization?
Do you believe in open source breeding as an approach to collaboratively preserve and breed new varietals?
Are you confident that we, cannabis cultivators, can use our cultural heritage to become an inspiring model and revolutionize the entire agricultural/horticultural world (through responsible farming for instance, open source breeding… )?
People like growing marijuana for a number of anthropological reason including its a dioecious plant that it has a single harvest, different stages of life, and that unlike most animals including reptiles, birds and mammals where the male is a more spectacular of the genders with both marijuana and humans the female form is often considered the more artful or beautiful for these reasons people like growing marijuana. As opposed to tobacco or brewing beer which can be a hit or miss proposition. In Marijuana Growers Handbook I talk about the tomato model and in essence there I mention tomatoes are grown by commercial organizations of all sizes both nation and international down to the small grower that puts boxes of tomatoes for sale in the front yard. More tomatoes in the United States are grown by home growers than all the commercial growers combined. I have two more comments to make:
Do you know who the best marijuana grower in the world is? Any grower you’re speaking with.
As for tomatoes the reason store bought tomatoes can never be as good as homegrown is because the fruit stops producing sugars when its cut form the plant. In order to get a firm ripe tomatoes rather than tomatoes buy that you buy from a tomato in the store they have to be picked mostly green. They never have a chance to develop the sugars that a vine ripen tomato creates.
The way to do this is to campaign to keep marijuana illegal so that the big corporate companies cannot enter the space!
However, my main interest is not in who distributes it as that it gets widely distributed inexpensively. The reason is that we can cannaba-centric eyes the society. My idea is to sell alcohol at its real cost to society in other words put taxes on it to pay for the damage of the true cost of alcohol damage and get cannabis prices down so that people choose cannabis.
Braudo, although you asked Ed, the reality is that tissue culture while good for some plants is not really scaleable for large scale production.
It’s a lot easier to plant 100000 seeds over 50 acres than it is to plant 100000 clones over 50 acres. It’s a lot cheaper to produce seed than it is to produce clones, and if you get contamination in your tissue culture, you potentially have to toss everything, go back to frozen stocks and start over.
Tissue culture works for somethings. But it’s rarely used for agriculture on the scale of producing huge amounts of material. Corn, Wheat, Rice, etc… none of those are really propagated at large scale by the use of tissue culture or clones.
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