Thank you for the help and I appreciate the encouraging words. I agree with Kimosabe, and I also believe everyone that has skills and enough space should work on a serious medical strain or two. You guys that have access to testing your meds, you are very blessed. Everyone interested in real medicine should try to volunteer passing out snacks at a cancer clinic for a few hours. This could change your life and how you view and approach a breeding effort.
On another subject; is it me or do others feel most strain identification, medical strains and some breeder names seem specific to recreational use? Most of the names appear to target younger people. It can surely leave non-users with doubt and distrust wondering if it's even medicine at all. Some of the names are just plain crazy, like Mr. Nice's Devil. It requires a great deal more imagination to think of appealing medical names. Constellations of stars hold plenty of fine respectable names.
I believe there should be great integrity in the effort to relieve human suffering and saving lives. Yes, as Kimosabe has said, this could be the beginning of something great. If society does collapse as it appears it's destined to do, then medical cannabis, poppy and other quality medical herbs will become so highly favored, indeed very scarce too and worth much for bartering. During times of tribulation there will be a need for a medicine man in every clime. Even now there's a need for new and improved true medical cannabis. May all that are called, may they dedicate themselves to finding the elusive bd allele and blend of terpinoids to create a special medicine.
As I said in another post, the loss of a certain part of the gene pool could have cost the world the ability to create more diverse medicine. There's some greedy men on this Earth that have many of the world's ancient Landrace strains, and their respective gene pools are frozen in time with little hope of ever leaving the freezer. Many of the Landraces were cataloged and used as medication. Check this gentleman's wiki page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brooke_O%27Shaughnessy
I ask nothing more than those that claim "High CBD" prove it.
How about a "This is how we did it?".
How about Lab tests - of every pheno of every generation?
Or at least access to the reports on every pheno of the generation being sold as "High CBD" ?
Surely, to be taken seriously by Law changers, this kind of info should be forthcoming?
Till this stuff is made available (I have my own opinion as to why it's not) - I'd have to forgive anyone calling it hype without foundation.
Not to say that significant work has not been done but what a shame it's being blurred by all those jumping on the Bandwagon.
How about a sticky on how CBD is isolated to the point where "High CBD" can be confidently claimed.
Love to hear from the resident Experts. I'm sure they wil have the data to show us.
Just wanted to add this quote from projectcbd.com
" As the years went by, more and more promising studies involving CBD were described at meetings of the ICRS, the International Association for Cannabinoid Medicine, and Patients Out of Time. California doctors kept abreast of the research and
O'Shaughnessy's reported on it, but we were merely observers, not participants —until the fall of 2008, when Oakland's Steep Hill Laboratory began testing samples provided by Harborside Health Center.
Approximately one in 750 samples of Cannabis being grown for medical use is turning out to be CBD-rich. (For data collection purposes, "CBD-rich" has been defined as 4% or more by dry weight.) Doctors and patients now have a unique opportunity to evaluate its effects."
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Yep - one in 750. Perhaps buy 2 packs of ten next time.
