Live Stoner Chat OMG Just watched Green House Seeds on Vice

[DABaracuss]

I really dont like theses guys..so im watching this documentary called the lords of cannabis or something on vice season 5 . They are in the Congo looking for the ladrace seeds. SO after going through 7 fields 7 days on a river filled with bugs and crocks greasing cops army and chiefs they find it the seeds .SO they have the seeds now they have showing the villagers their pics in high times Now the villagers are thinking WTF this is our land our heritage why are we going to let them make millions and they just gave us 100US LOL so they interviewer asked him ..do you come back and give the people money after you make millions..with a straight face he says NO we give nothing back. then says we are doing the same as big Farma. IM like holy shit they are monsters ..I know the one guy died ..but dam that is some cold ass shit to just do something like that..an take on a big pharmaceutical business model. Its just so not the culture. They could at least give 2 % to schools but just to go and really grab and run is just ..im so so pissed.There must be a better way to get indigenous strains without exploiting people. Thats not the Vision That I think we should have as a community ..What do you guys think?

 

[Ribbzzy]

I really dont like theses guys..so im watching this documentary called the lords of cannabis or something on vice season 5 . They are in the Congo looking for the ladrace seeds. SO after going through 7 fields 7 days on a river filled with bugs and crocks greasing cops army and chiefs they find it the seeds .SO they have the seeds now they have showing the villagers their pics in high times Now the villagers are thinking WTF this is our land our heritage why are we going to let them make millions and they just gave us 100US LOL so they interviewer asked him ..do you come back and give the people money after you make millions..with a straight face he says NO we give nothing back. then says we are doing the same as big Farma. IM like holy shit they are monsters ..I know the one guy died ..but dam that is some cold ass shit to just do something like that..an take on a big pharmaceutical business model. Its just so not the culture. They could at least give 2 % to schools but just to go and really grab and run is just ..im so so pissed.There must be a better way to get indigenous strains without exploiting people. Thats not the Vision That I think we should have as a community ..What do you guys think?

Not only that, but then they dump all their shitty greenhouse genetics in the ground, polluting the native landrace stock, possibly forever. I've had the displeasure of meeting Arjan on more than one occasion, I, like many others, came to the conclusion, he is a wanker

 

[DABaracuss]

yea I didnt even think about that ..Them taking the seeds they want then trashing the phenos with their seeds . Imean its criminal to do such things. You cant bring a plant from china to America and release it into the wild. Every time its happened it led to grim problems in the echo system. I could just thing what people that use it as meds in that area will suffer from with different strains pouting their natural genetics. Those type of people we should well i will not promote or help in any way.

 

[Red Rupert]

Them boys looked like colonial c×××s exploiting the natives to me

 

[Crafty croatian]

Strain hunters by any chance?

 

[Smorf]

Strain hunters by any chance?

Yeah their show is called strain hunters.
My personal opinion, for what its worth, having never met any of them but i have watched a good bit of strain hunters:
I believe that Arjan is the master mind behind the greasy practices of GHS and he just used Franco (who was very passionate about cannabis)to help him.
Franco was, from what i have seen and heard, a genuine down to earth guy who had a deep passion for growing and helping others with cannabis.
RIP Franco.

 

[IceWater421]

I've only grew GreenHouse Seeds out once it was there Kings Kush photo . Three seeds wouldn't germinate and the two that did where very runty and unimpressive and the one just started flowering under 18hours on 6hours off. I was pretty disappointed and haven't tried them since ....

 

[BaronFox]

My only problem with them is they refuse to pay the locals farely, and Arjan gets pissed off when they try to negotiate better deals for themselves, Franco seemed like he was the voice of reason, seemed like he would always try to get them a little extra. R.I.P Franco

 

[BRICH999]

I saw the show and had mixed emotions. Most here do it for the love of the hobby. We arent running a business. They are. And while it may seem unfair in many ways, imagine the risk they are taking. Not only with their health but financially. What do you think that trip cost total? Do you think they always find a unique landrace? And even if they do how marketable is it? Random hypothetical numbers: If 1 in 10 trips lands a proper landrace, and 1 in 10 landraces is a million dollar seed destined for great things, you are making 100 trips for each great seed. They paid people every step of the way, some good investments, some poor. Say they averaged $10,000 in expenses for the trip. Now they broke even(assuming the actual producing and selling a million dollars worth of seeds was free). But worked their butts off in dangerous remote areas risking their lives for what they are passionate about. Obviously my numbers are not accurate because they do not account for many things (i dont have a lab to do thc composition anyalsys kicking around my house) and the numbers are guesses but i bet theres a lot at risk people dont see outside the episode.

I feel bad for the village that produces a unique crop thats traded for seemingly nothing but understand these people didnt really have a lot. And it isnt like there were buyers smashing down the doors with offers. Really the villagers had nothing to lose and only gains here but got greedy with potential earnings and tried to negotiate for more.

Manhattan island was traded for beads. Thats robbery. What the villagers "lost" is little other than rights to a genetic sequence that they had already used to potential. I make a great bacon cheeseburger. You better believe if mcdonalds or the king came to me with anything in exchange for my recipe id hand it over in an instant. As long as there isnt a no compete clause, i still get to enjoy something ive worked hard perfecting, but also get the gratification of sharing it with the world.

Just my .02. Good show though, very polarizing and has opened my eyes up a lot.