Posted on 05/31/2012 5:51:32 AM PDT by Former Fetus
Israeli scientists have cultivated a cannabis plant that doesn't get people stoned in a development that may help those smoking marijuana for medical purposes, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
According to the Maariv daily, the new cannabis looks, smells and even tastes the same, but does not induce any of the feelings normally associated with smoking marijuana that are brought on by the substance THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol.
"It has the same scent, shape and taste as the original plant -- it's all the same -- but the numbing sensation that users are accustomed to has disappeared," said Tzahi Klein, head of development at Tikkun Olam, the firm that developed the species.
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What are they going to call it? Near Dope? Marijuana 3.2? Almost Heaven? MJ on the Downlow?
Thank you!!
It also makes you FAT!
If Mike Bloomberg is so damn hot and bothered on obesity, he should ban HFCS, not real sugar.............
“The author was so frightened that he left the city and lived in an isolated rural trailer for a month.”
So he got the paronia without taking the drug?
The drug was real but you aren’t in the “in group” and you are part of the counter propaganda?
How do we know that the drug wasn’t real but you are in the “in group” and you are part of the counter-counter propaganda?
[ If Mike Bloomberg is so damn hot and bothered on obesity, he should ban HFCS, not real sugar............. ]
The Dim Agribusiness Lobby would Crucify Him!
Safer to go after “big Non-corn Sugar” and “Big Salt”.
Well, what he calls ‘sugar’ is really HFCS. The US soft drink industry quit using sugar decades ago. The local Big Lots and several other store sell Mexican Coca-colas that are still made with pure sugar since they don’t use HFCS in their drinks because it would cost too much. They pay the world price for sugar, we pay the US government price supported cost for sugar. If we paid the world price for sugar, soft drinks would cost even less and 5 pound bag of sugar would cost about a dollar.............
Nanny staters just love reading comments like that. So you want to ban alcohol? If not, why not? It costs 'society' more than pot. What about fatty foods and large slurpees?
Here's an idea. Why not honor the Tenth Amendment and get the feds out of intrastate pot regulation and let the states decide?
No, I simply want those who self-abuse by risky behaviors to be responsible for their own well-being. I don't want the hand of government in my pocket to help them party or to mitigate the results of their partying.
That's exactly what the government does with alcohol, yet you don't want to ban it like you do pot. Why not?
Also, what is your answer to my question on intrastate drug policy being regulated by states rather than the feds, per the 10th Amendment?
I was going to write the same thing but I thought I would scan the thread to see who posted it first.
“Having the crop made “drug free” is great news for hemp production.”
It won’t matter because there’s no way to tell the THC free plant from those with.
Now figure out a way to make the non-thc plants a color different from green and it might be allowed.
But the easiest thing to do is decriminalize it and the problem is solved.
Well that will put the "clinics" out of business...not. Even if it does have "medical benefits" (wink wink) it will be the all time worst selling brand at the "clinics" that dispense "medicine" to "patients".
Medical marijuana in Maine is one of the biggest hypocritical boondogles I've seen in my lifetime.
If I, as an individual, were to grow a few pot plants in the attic to "ease my condition", I would be subject to arrest and incarceration.
However, if I went to the right doctor and was diagnosed with the same "condition", paid the fee and got a prescription, I could legally grow those same plants in the open instead of the attic or buy super weed at one of the many legal "medical dispensaries".
So the AMA gets their vig and it's off to the races.
If one has enough money for the entry fee (which rumor has it is around $10 grand), one could become a supplier for up to nine "patients". If each of those nine buy their monthly limit from you, you could make between $130K/$150k a year as a legal dealer.
Between methadone clinics and medical weed, the State o' Maine is the biggest drug dealer in the State o' Maine.
The State is also the biggest bookie in Maine.
Bread and Circus on a massive scale, all brought to us while the 'Rats held power here (close to 60 years of unbroken "Rat control). Now we have (God love him) Governor Paul LePage trying to roll back some of the financial crap that's been dogging ME for years and don't they hate him!
dude,
I think I just saw the inside of my head.
Also, what is your answer to my question on intrastate drug policy being regulated by states rather than the feds, per the 10th Amendment?
Please point out where I said I wanted to ban pot, alcohol or anything else except the government's hand in my pocket to subsidize the abusers.
A return to Constitutional boundaries for the federal government would put drug issues back into the hands of the states. But as long as there is money and power available through federal "service", good luck with that!
That’s just what “they” want you to think. How do you know that what you think is the *inside* of your head isn’t actually the *outside* of your head, or, like, you are a disembodied brain living in a jar that thinks it is looking at the inside of its head?
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