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     5 years ago 

    True story. All that is left is to secure a monopoly of growth and distribution. The irony of "legal weed" is they always manage to prevent people from being able to grow enough to actually treat serious chronic illness or cure anything. Ever seen "Leaf: The Movie"? It is n astonishing story, but to get those results you need pounds and pounds of fresh leaf but most states limit people to a few plants at a time.
    Did you see the claim of the first death by THC overdose the other day? They were NOT smoking weed, they were using a Vape Pen. I have said all along "That ain't God's medicine" and now they are slandering God's medicine because the man-made knock off killed someone...

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     5 years ago 

    It's like someone using Salvia divinorum for "enlightenment," but instead of the traditional method of chewing the unenhanced leaves, they're using a 10X or 30X (or more) concentrated extract . . . and then wonder why it's a mostly negative experience. Unreal.

    I want nothing to do with vape pens, until and unless I'm making my own legal extract, so that I'll know 100% what is in it.

    A lot of medicinal value comes from pure extracts, for which you don't need pounds and pounds of herb, but unfortunately making them is no longer common knowledge, as it was in our grandparents' time.

    And a few plants isn't an issue if you know your stuff. A single cannabis plant can get 10' tall and 8' wide, commonly, so you could have the legal number of plants and still have pounds and pounds of herb, again providing you know what you're doing.

    Not until it's fully legal, though, at least for me. I'm not willing to risk the legal ramifications.

    I got turned into the cops once for growing pot on my balcony, when I lived in St. Petersburg, Florida . . . which was actually a 6' tall false aralia plant. I wasn't even into pot at the time. At least the cop that came out thought it was as funny as I did. ;-)

    There are legal sources for non-GMO organic seed, especially in the Netherlands, so sourcing safe seed is still possible. And they've been breeding for both recreational and medical uses for decades.

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     5 years ago 

    LOL! When I was about 15, I came be-bopping in from school one day and my uber-straight mom had a brand new 3 foot pot plant on the windowsill. I had a huge "WTF!" moment, then went and looked at the sticker and it said "False Alarm" and I thought she was jackin' with my head... It seems that when your head is spinning, "aralia" looks just like "alarm!" LOL! While I agree about the extracts, there is an aspect of the LEAF that has incredible medicinal value, and those people need pounds and pounds of leaf to make into raw juice. It has to be fresh cut. It does NOT need to be buds, not sure if male plants are OK or not but it is NOT a way to get high, but it is illegal as hell even in "legal" states to grow the quantities needed.

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       5 years ago 

      Agreed, the juiced leaves are amazing, and yes, the leaves from males are as valuable as those from female plants.

      And yeah, that quantity is hard to grow by yourself.

      That said, whole plant extracts are amazing as well, and when that's all you've got, that's the way it goes.

      Hopefully our government will get their collective heads out of their *sses some day soon. I'm not holding my breath.

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