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Gunky

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With No U.S. Standards, Pot Pesticide Use Is Rising Public Health Threat

Pot and Pesticides


This is frightening and makes me not want to vape pot ever again...unless totally organic.

I find that pure neem oil mixed with dish soap in a sprayer full of water, applied when the plants are still young and not yet flowering, takes care of most leaf septoria and mold for an indoor grow. It ain't all that cheap but it's effective and safe. You can dip an entire clone in a pail of this when you acquire a clone from a dispensary to eliminate stuff coming in from other growers. I also have some of Ed Rosenthal's Zero Tolerance (potassium bicarbonate and essential oils of cinnamon, wintergreen, oregano, thyme, and clove) around for any tough cases but have yet to use it. Yeah, there is some nasty stuff being applied to commercial weed. I shudder to think of what some of that might do to one's health long term. Eventually there will be standards but in the meantime the safest stuff is what you grow yourself.
 
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macbill

Oh No! Mr macbill!!
Staff member
Blast from the Past (Wikipedia)

Paraquat Pot
During the late 1970s, a controversial program sponsored by the US government sprayed paraquat on cannabis fields in Mexico.[24] Since much of this cannabis was subsequently smoked by Americans, the US government's "Paraquat Pot" program stirred much debate. Perhaps in an attempt to deter people from using cannabis, representatives of the program warned that spraying rendered the crop unsafe to smoke. However, a 1995 study found that "no lung or other injury in cannabis users has ever been attributed to paraquat contamination".[25] Also a United States Environmental Protection Agency manual states: "... toxic effects caused by this mechanism have been either very rare or nonexistent. Most paraquat that contaminates cannabis is pyrolyzed during smoking to dipyridyl, which is a product of combustion of the leaf material itself (including cannabis) and presents little toxic hazard."[26]

They're from the Government. They're here to help....
 

cybrguy

Putin is a War Criminal
Fuckers scared the shit out of us back then with that garbage, but it didn't stop anyone I knew. Now it turns out its just combustion noise. Assholes.

Well, its a good thing anyway...
 

howie105

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cybrguy

Putin is a War Criminal
It is truly sad when people in power show their complete ignorance on important issues, yet remain in power and wipe that ignorance like a dirty rag on a whole population.

Edit: And by the way it should be clear that Harper is only the one we are talking about now. This unfortunate circumstance applies to a large percentage of the political class, and apparently the whole rethuglican field running for the US President.
 
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macbill

Oh No! Mr macbill!!
Staff member
An In-Depth Look at Kief & Trichomes

Trichomes are a part of the cannabis plant’s resin glands and act as a sun screen for the leaves and, most importantly, calyxes against the intensity of the sun and other elements. They act as a protectant for the plant against the sun’s intense rays, helping to protect the most important leaves from burning, while also guiding pollen to the pistols (or hairs) during pollination, and acting as a repellent for animals in nature. Trichomes are attached to the leaves of a cannabis plant and are exceptionally small at about 50 to 100 micro meters wide. “Frosty” buds are ones that have trichomes covering the outside, generally causing the bud to shimmer under the light. Kief (also spelled “kif” or “keef”) is the term for trichomes that have been removed from the bud generally using a tool like a grinder. Many people like to save up their kief collection because kief is a more concentrated form of THC.
 

Nooky72

Dog Marley
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cybrguy

Putin is a War Criminal
Shit like this can do a lot of damage to the legitimate (read legal) Pot Industry. It is NOT a good thing...

Federal authorities raid rash of illegal Colorado pot grows

By SADIE GURMAN 17 hours ago

DENVER (AP) — Colorado's high-country chill makes it a tough place to grow marijuana outside. But federal authorities say legalization has emboldened pot growers into planting weed on the state's sparsely populated federal lands, often for shipment to other states.


Investigators are cracking down on illegal growers after discovering more and bigger operations in national forests and other federal land throughout the state, U.S. Attorney John Walsh said on Thursday. Authorities have raided an unusually high number of marijuana grows since late August, including five on remote stretches of federal land and a sixth on private property.

Local and federal authorities seized more than 20,000 pot plants and arrested 32 people, the most Walsh said he has seen facing federal marijuana-related charges in Colorado at one time.

"We've seen people come into Colorado and just set up large marijuana cultivations, perhaps with the feeling that, because there's a lot of marijuana activity in Colorado, they wouldn't be noticed," Walsh told The Associated Press.

Most of those arrested are from other states or countries, including Cuba and Mexico. Some are drug traffickers, and some were growing marijuana and shipping it to other states, including Florida, either by car or UPS.

The U.S. Justice Department has threatened to intervene in legal pot states that do not take adequate steps to keep the drug from going to criminal cartels, being diverted to other states and growing on federal property, among other conditions. But Walsh said his focus is on drug traffickers, rather than the state of Colorado, which he said is trying to make its regulatory system work.

Colorado authorities find pot grows on public lands toward the end of every summer, when the plants are harvested, but "this is really a wave," Walsh said.

"In these six cases, people were making no effort to comply with the regulatory system," Walsh said. "This is good-old, traditional marijuana growing, the illegal way."

The largest operation was discovered Sept. 7 in the San Isabel National Forest, northwest of Trinidad in Huerfano County, where investigators found more than 11,700 plants, irrigation pipe, pesticides, flammable liquids, camping gear, piles of trash and a rifle. The grow spread across 10 acres and included a kitchen structure and sleeping areas. Authorities arrested two men.

They arrested six people —a Honduran and five Mexican nationals — after finding a grow site on Sept. 30 along the Dolores River corridor in Montrose County, where they collected evidence of at least 1,000 recently harvested pot plants and processed marijuana.

And the task force arrested 20 people after finding more than 1,000 plants, 28 firearms and $25,000 in cash at grow sites on private land in Cotopaxi and Westcliffe in southern Colorado. Those arrested were moving marijuana to Florida, Walsh said.

The grows are at high elevation and can be damaging and costly to clean up, he said.
 

His_Highness

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Federal authorities raid rash of illegal Colorado pot grows

By SADIE GURMAN 17 hours ago

DENVER (AP) — Colorado's high-country chill makes it a tough place to grow marijuana outside. But federal authorities say legalization has emboldened pot growers into planting weed on the state's sparsely populated federal lands, often for shipment to other states.

Most of those arrested are from other states or countries, including Cuba and Mexico. Some are drug traffickers, and some were growing marijuana and shipping it to other states, including Florida, either by car or UPS.

And the task force arrested 20 people after finding more than 1,000 plants, 28 firearms and $25,000 in cash at grow sites on private land in Cotopaxi and Westcliffe in southern Colorado. Those arrested were moving marijuana to Florida, Walsh said.

I live in Florida :cry::doh::cry:.......Why the hell does Florida have to get supplied from as far away as Colorado! Geez.......
 

JCat

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Accessory Maker
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I'm going to call the dispensary referenced in the article this week! Hopefully they'll be able to help out Canadian medical card holders as well! (My team would like to go to a developer conference in Las Vegas next year, already approved by my boss, but if I can't get cannabis I don't think I want to go! ... it messes me up too much to be without that it won't be worth it ... I'll be suffering the whole time ...)
 

kellya86

Herb gardener...
Well the UK cannabis legislation debate happened.
And nothing happened.

But the Home Office said in a statement: "The government has no plans to legalise or decriminalise cannabis.

"There is clear scientific and medical evidence that cannabis is a harmful drug which can damage people's mental and physical health, and harms individuals and communities."

Where is this clear scientific evidence?
If you ate so concerned about any harm that products may be causing then ban tobacco and achohol you stupid fucks. This is just insane. My government is lying to me.
I see now why you American assassinate your presidents.
 

MinnBobber

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"There is clear scientific and medical evidence that cannabis is a harmful drug which can damage people's mental and physical health, and harms individuals and communities."
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What BS. If govt officials spent about 4 hours on the internet, looking at unbiased studies from Israel and elsewhere, they'd conclude that it is NOT harmful. In fact, they'd conclude that it is almost certainly the most versatile and far-ranging miracle medicine that mankind has ever seen or will ever see.
They'd find that it helps cure or prevent dozens and dozens of killer diseases and has minimal side effects that are hardly worth mentioning vs most big pharma drugs whose side effects go on and on and on.

Just as an example, the US won't let vets (our heroes) use cannabis yet Israeli PTSD studies show the results as "spectacular". So, we continue to have 22 vet suicides every day.

Dr's keep handing out prescription painkillers like candy--with the resulting 16,000 prescription painkiller deaths per year, while cannabis stays on the Fed Schedule 1 drug list (drugs with zero medical value) even though it is almost impossible to die from a cannabis overdose.

When will the madness, lies, and deceit stop?
 
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Gunky

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The fact that greedy capitalists are trying to monopolize the trade in Ohio suggests to me that cannabis is getting close to being part of our mainstream thinking. The entire west coast has taken a permissive stance. I think it won't be long before it comes off the federal schedule and some form of decriminalization takes place nationwide. But meanwhile for the moment and probably a few more years they are still busting people and giving them long sentences (especially if there are any firearms present). Take special care - don't be a victim - and avoid getting caught up in the last snares of prohibition.
 
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CarolKing

Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
WA state is allowing its veterans to use cannabis for PTSD. There's a dispensary in town that gives out free cannabis to vets. Not sure if that will happen once the state starts its new medical system in July 2016 where everyone will have a huuuuggge tax.

What medical cannabis that will be available they will get their product from the same outlets as the recreational. Everything is still yet to be decided. WA state is having open door meetings throughout the state.
 

MinnBobber

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WA state is allowing its veterans to use cannabis for PTSD. There's a dispensary in town that gives out free cannabis to vets. Not sure if that will happen once the state starts its new medical system in July 2016 where everyone will have a huuuuggge tax.
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That dispensary deserves kudo !!!! It's a crime IMO that vets elsewhere don't have VA access to cannabis.
Israeli study shows "spectacular" results. Our vets are dying with it :(
 

Gunky

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A lot of places are coming up with laws that allow people to grow and possess 8 ounces. If you are growing your own this amount is very inconvenient. Let's say you are a medical patient with your own little medical grow. In that situation it makes sense to grow intensively during whatever is the coolest, least humid part of a year and use a 1000 watt finishing lamp for several months, save up the pound or two accumulated in harvests and then discontinue growing for a year or more. If you are limited to 8 oz on hand you kind of have to keep growing all the time. If you are going to use a 1000 watt lamp - and you kind of have to in order to get the nicest, most dense bud - it makes energy efficiency sense to have a fairly good sized canopy of plants sitting under that great big light, not just enough to top off my allowed 8 ounces. The limits are stupid.
 

kellya86

Herb gardener...
I use a 600 watt digital ballast, and that produces tight nugs. It's to do with the hz. A normal magnetic ballast will run a 60 hz. My digital runs at 30,000hz. Meaning more light more of the time. Also I harvest every 4 months and harvest about 8oz.
But I only consume an Oz a month. So I can have a 2 month break at least after every harvest. Meaning I'm only ever growing 66% of the time.
And I take my time, if I wanted to i could have 8oz every 3 months.
Maybe your needs are greater than mine. But I think 8 oz per person works well.
 

kellya86

Herb gardener...
This is what the UK government have been told about cannabis by a biology teacher Mary Brett, who is part of the cannabis skunk sense charity.

The plant’s main psychoactive constituent, THC, occupied receptors in the central nervous system and stuck there, Brett said.

“So movement of neurotransmitters is impaired, and then the functioning of the whole brain is impeded,” she said, citing studies that had found regular cannabis use by teenagers could lower their IQ by eight points.

There were also social problems, she said. “If you talk to parents whose kids have turned to cannabis, they [the children] take things from the home, they take things from their brothers and sisters, and also they become violent.”

Therein lies the crux of the argument, particularly in light of newer high THC strains of cannabis, known as skunk, which are are implicated in psychosis and schizophrenia. While in the 1960s cannabis might have been regarded as fairly harmless, with varieties now said to contain up to 16% THC, it is argued that the drug poses a deadlier threat.

Deadlier? Surely someone has to die first before it can be deadlier.
I hate my nieve, stupid, arrogant government.
It's this sort of misinformation that stops progress.
 

Gunky

Well-Known Member
I used 600 for a while, then switched to 1000 for the finishing lamp. The difference is quite startling, especially for sativa-dominant strains which need more light. 1000 has become standard equipment in CA; I have heard that 600 is more common in Europe.

You are taking two months off between grows. Like I said, the way you are working you have to keep growing most of the time. I find it way more efficient to grow intensively, with a perpetual arrangement for ex every month adding 3 new clones to the veg tent, moving 3 to the bloom tent, harvesting 3 from the bloom tent (obviously you need two lights for this). Do this for several months and you can lay off for a year or two.

Hey, any way you like to garden is a good way! My point is why have limits that impede growing flexibility and efficiency? Why should 8 oz be ok and 16 lands you in the slammer? We certainly don't do this with alcohol, which is actually toxic at high levels, unlike cannabis.

I suppose the explanation might be oh then you might be tempted to sell some... Bloody hell there are people everywhere selling the stuff at prices that don't tempt me to try to compete! :) And anyway, if I were to sell a few oz's this is not exactly a crime wave. Society needs to unclench a bit about cannabis.
 
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