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macbill

Oh No! Mr macbill!!
Staff member
'Cannabis beauty' is becoming a real category as Sephora, others promote CBD-infused products
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/20/can...hora-others-promote-cbd-infused-products.html
As beauty products laced with CBD, a non-psychoactive compound found in hemp and marijuana, continue to find their way onto the shelves of retailers including Sephora, Barneys and Neiman Marcus, analysts at Piper Jaffray are seeing further growth in this "beauty and the bong" industry. The trend could help boost the overall CBD market, which Piper pegs at worth $50 billion to $100 billion on day.
 

HighMtnSkier

Waiting for winter
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Reminds me of this:
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Tranquility

Well-Known Member
The future is...yeast.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/02/27/yeast-produce-low-cost-high-quality-cannabinoids/
UC Berkeley synthetic biologists have engineered brewer’s yeast to produce marijuana’s main ingredients—mind-altering THC and non-psychoactive CBD—as well as novel cannabinoids not found in the plant itself.

Feeding only on sugar, the yeast are an easy and cheap way to produce pure cannabinoids that today are costly to extract from the buds of the marijuana plant, Cannabis sativa.

“For the consumer, the benefits are high-quality, low-cost CBD and THC: you get exactly what you want from yeast,” said Jay Keasling, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of bioengineering and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “It is a safer, more environmentally friendly way to produce cannabinoids.”...​
 

howie105

Well-Known Member
The future is...yeast.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/02/27/yeast-produce-low-cost-high-quality-cannabinoids/
UC Berkeley synthetic biologists have engineered brewer’s yeast to produce marijuana’s main ingredients—mind-altering THC and non-psychoactive CBD—as well as novel cannabinoids not found in the plant itself.

Feeding only on sugar, the yeast are an easy and cheap way to produce pure cannabinoids that today are costly to extract from the buds of the marijuana plant, Cannabis sativa.

“For the consumer, the benefits are high-quality, low-cost CBD and THC: you get exactly what you want from yeast,” said Jay Keasling, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of bioengineering and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “It is a safer, more environmentally friendly way to produce cannabinoids.”...​

It is also a production method that would require a larger investment then many/most current producers could match on an industrial scale. Its part of that legalization for commercialization and industrialization that seems to be gaining strength.
 

C No Ego

Well-Known Member
It is also a production method that would require a larger investment then many/most current producers could match on an industrial scale. Its part of that legalization for commercialization and industrialization that seems to be gaining strength.
they will be making the same compound while claiming that compound from cannabis is bad or horrible. only the synthetic compound is good and safe . natural occurring forms from real life cannabis is pure horrid, the compound is a crime scene !
Ask your politicians which compounds are right for you !
 

arb

Semi shaved ape
they will be making the same compound while claiming that compound from cannabis is bad or horrible. only the synthetic compound is good and safe . natural occurring forms from real life cannabis is pure horrid, the compound is a crime scene !
Ask your politicians which compounds are right for you !
This unfortunately is my prediction for cannabis in the future.
I read that article looked at mrs.arb and said that is the cannabis growers death bell..........not right away but within twenty years or so.
 

C No Ego

Well-Known Member
This unfortunately is my prediction for cannabis in the future.
I read that article looked at mrs.arb and said that is the cannabis growers death bell..........not right away but within twenty years or so.
like this part in the article
" Cannabis cultivation is a prime example of an energy-intensive and environmentally-destructive industry."
that is because of legalities ! pl;ants grow outdoors , indoors is so not normal and the article is using that as some stance as to why synthetic is better
 

macbill

Oh No! Mr macbill!!
Staff member
Trump Administration Wants More Input On Marijuana Rescheduling
Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recommended that cannabis and its derivatives be rescheduled under international drug treaties.

Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants "interested persons to submit comments on the notifications from the United Nations concerning these drug substances," Lowell J. Schiller, FDA's acting associate commissioner for policy, wrote in a notice published in the Federal Register on Friday

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Scientists Push Attorney General To End Marijuana Research Logjam
The largest organization representing psychology professionals in the United States is calling on the federal government to expand the legal supply of marijuana for use in scientific research.

In a letter addressed to Attorney General William Barr, the American Psychological Association (APA) is requesting that the Department of Justice immediately evaluate the more than two dozen applications for cannabis cultivation licenses that stalled under his predecessor Jeff Sessions.
 

cybrguy

Putin is a War Criminal
Demand for legal marijuana in Illinois would far exceed licensed growers' ability to supply it, study shows

Chicago Tribune
Legal recreational marijuana in Illinois could drive demand as high as 550,000 pounds a year, far more than the state’s licensed growers can supply, according to a new study commissioned by state legislators.

The study, performed by the Colorado consulting firm Freedman & Koski, lends support to those who argue that Illinois’ fledgling marijuana industry should expand and diversify, allowing the participation of more black and Latino entrepreneurs — people whose communities have disproportionately suffered during America’s war on drugs.

“We have a whole industry that’s treating it like the gold rush, but you have generations of folks who are still living with all the impacts of what the criminal justice system did to them,” said Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-Chicago Heights. “It’s unfair to discuss this in any other way.”

The possibility of full marijuana legalization has stirred up a robust lobbying effort from many of the state’s 16 licensed growers, who have said that absent proof to the contrary, they believe they are capable of meeting demand. Their industry group, the Medical Cannabis Alliance of Illinois, has said adding more cultivators could lead to a marijuana glut that would encourage illegal diversion.

But the study concludes otherwise. Making projections based on the 8 percent of Illinoisans who admit recent marijuana use and the state’s robust tourism industry, it says current growers could meet only 35 to 54 percent of demand if recreational marijuana were legalized.




“Systems that either dramatically fall short of demand or that oversupply the market create public policy challenges,” the report says. “Avoiding both is an important expectation from the public, from producers, and from public health and public safety officials.”

If the expected market were fully met, the report says, the state could harvest at least $440 million annually in tax revenue.

Pam Althoff, the former state senator who leads the Medical Cannabis Alliance of Illinois, declined comment on the report, saying the group’s board wants to study it first. She added that the alliance has commissioned its own demand study, which should be released within a few days.

The legislators’ report is the second one to conclude that Illinois will have a marijuana shortage if the drug becomes legal for general use. Illinois NORML says the state has the most expensive marijuana in the country and is already seeing shortages of some products for medical customers.

The study suggested licensing more cultivators and allowing existing dispensaries to begin growing marijuana, since they have already been vetted and authorized by the state to handle the drug.

John Hudak, a co-author of the Freedman & Koski report, said a shortage of legal marijuana can lead to problems, including people who seek out cheaper pot from drug dealers and companies that divert medical marijuana to the recreational market.

The latter issue has happened occasionally, he said, but it is not widespread and is usually swiftly corrected.

“The medical cannabis community is very vocal,” he said. “If they feel they are being mistreated because of the legalization for adult (recreational) use, they let the media know, they let legislators know. It can become a real public relations nightmare for the industry.”

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State Rep. Kelly Cassidy, right, and state Sen. Heather Steans, both Democrats representing Chicago, listen to a marijuana expert via teleconference during a hearing about legalizing marijuana in Illinois on April 19, 2017. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune)

The report was commissioned by Sen. Heather Steans, D-Chicago, and Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago, sponsors of legislation to legalize recreational marijuana. They have said they want the industry to be diverse, something that has yet to happen in Illinois.

“When we talk about equity, this industry should look like the world,” said their colleague, Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth, D-Peoria, who is also part of the legalization effort. “It should not just be for wealthy, white men.”

Sponsors of the bill have said they plan to introduce a proposal in March or April. If it becomes law, recreational sales might not start until 2020.

The desire to diversify the industry isn’t the only tension in the state’s exploration of legal recreational marijuana. Some believe the drug shouldn’t be legalized at all, and the new demand report did little to assuage their fears.

Lobbyist Tim McAnarney of Healthy and Productive Illinois, which opposes recreational marijuana, said the report’s projections suggest a burgeoning black market when the drug is legalized. Homegrown pot, which would be allowed under some legislation, could become a ruinous mainstay, he said.

“I would anticipate that once the product is legalized, once it’s being grown in people’s homes, increased use is going to be devastating to the youth of Illinois,” he said. “The more available it is, the more it’s going to be used.”
 

ClearBlueLou

unbearably light in the being....
The future is...yeast.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/02/27/yeast-produce-low-cost-high-quality-cannabinoids/
UC Berkeley synthetic biologists have engineered brewer’s yeast to produce marijuana’s main ingredients—mind-altering THC and non-psychoactive CBD—as well as novel cannabinoids not found in the plant itself.

Feeding only on sugar, the yeast are an easy and cheap way to produce pure cannabinoids that today are costly to extract from the buds of the marijuana plant, Cannabis sativa.

“For the consumer, the benefits are high-quality, low-cost CBD and THC: you get exactly what you want from yeast,” said Jay Keasling, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of bioengineering and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “It is a safer, more environmentally friendly way to produce cannabinoids.”...​
I simply don’t accept that THC isolate or CBD isolate can measure up to the value and effectiveness of the whole plant unless medical use is reduced to Xmg of either as a dose. Worth looking back at the determination of THC as “what gets you high”; the studies tracked physiological effects, not psychic or perceptual or consciousness effects. High THC levels are heralded as making cannabis effects stronger, but a great deal of highly potent and sought-after strains show modest THC levels.

Yet THC continues to be touted as The Thing despite minimal correlation between desired effects and THC levels. It has become one of those things that ‘everybody knows’ - a category that has at times included a flat earth, an earth-centered universe, a young earth, the superiority of white people, and divine approval of slavery.

I know I’m a broken record on the subject...but I think we still have a lot to learn about how all this works.
 
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ClearBlueLou

unbearably light in the being....
I’m only a year ahead of you, and likewise not dead yet. As my situation develops, I fully intend to conduct my own research with a free ranging eye. Not to suggest that politically convenient science is necessarily bad science, but it ought to be verified and validated by GOOD (ie, well-designed, well-executed, dispassionately conducted) science.

Another example of such is the legendary belief/knowledge that seeded bud is different from seedless. My experience tells me that they are in fact different experiences when smoking, but to my knowledge no analysis has been done on the profiles of clones of the same plant, the same age, and same environment, one seeded and the other not...
 

hans solo

Left coast Canada
My question is the thc in all strains the exact same compound and are the variety of effects a figment of my imagination. I have 16 strains currently in rotation and each and every one seems to have different effects as well as flavour. Is the variety caused by the terpenes and flavonoids.i know that there are differences between indica and sativa but there has to be more to explain the diversity of the herb. I would be saddened if all I had was one yeast derived thc product. For me the opposite is true with cbd which I consume as a isolate and mct oil tincture.Cbd seems to me an effective but singular compound.
 

arb

Semi shaved ape
Take two cuts off the same plant pollinate one flower both to full maturity(rarely done)and the differences will be.........one has seeds and less flower.
The effects and taste seem to stay consistent within my ability to differentiate...........carry on.
:myday:
 

Nooky72

Dog Marley
My question is the thc in all strains the exact same compound and are the variety of effects a figment of my imagination. I have 16 strains currently in rotation and each and every one seems to have different effects as well as flavour. Is the variety caused by the terpenes and flavonoids.i know that there are differences between indica and sativa but there has to be more to explain the diversity of the herb. I would be saddened if all I had was one yeast derived thc product. For me the opposite is true with cbd which I consume as a isolate and mct oil tincture.Cbd seems to me an effective but singular compound.
Absolutely - the terpenes each have their own specific properties so do have a major influence upon the effect of different strains
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ClearBlueLou

unbearably light in the being....
Since terpenes have entered the fray, I have to wonder at what rate terpenes abandon the bud.
Do terpenes play an important role in the effects of commercial mids, or are they a high-end factor only?

Also, surely anything that can cook off via heat can likewise ‘cook off’’ over time and exposure to air;
and I’m under the impression that terpenes are quite volatile anyway, so just how much of a role do twerps end up playing, *really*?
 

ClearBlueLou

unbearably light in the being....
Take two cuts off the same plant pollinate one flower both to full maturity(rarely done)and the differences will be.........one has seeds and less flower.
The effects and taste seem to stay consistent within my ability to differentiate...........carry on.
:myday:
So, the whole “sensi is better than seeded” thing is another old stoners’ myth? Bravo!
I will perform the test myself when the time is right, but your comment seems to validate my conclusion (if not my reasoning). Hope you’re having a fine day!
 
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