Live Stoner Chat Would you smoke geneticly engineered weed?

[mauricem00]

can the plants we currently grow be called "natural". modern plants have 6 times the THC they had 30 years ago and we grow in a very unnatural environment which has caused plants to evolve in an unnatural way. adapting to unnatural lights and being force fed to promote rapid growth may have changed the pigments in plants making some primitive pigments more important and reduced their ability to extract nutrient from soil and regulate this process autos are a mix of two very different plants so haven't we already modified the genetics of this plant? how is modifying a plant gene in a lab any different than cross breeding

 

[NekoSempai]

can the plants we currently grow be called "natural". modern plants have 6 times the THC they had 30 years ago and we grow in a very unnatural environment which has caused plants to evolve in an unnatural way. adapting to unnatural lights and being force fed to promote rapid growth may have changed the pigments in plants making some primitive pigments more important and reduced their ability to extract nutrient from soil and regulate this process autos are a mix of two very different plants so haven't we already modified the genetics of this plant? how is modifying a plant gene in a lab any different than cross breeding

The way I look at it is, its a natural plant. Naturally adapting to its environment. Its still a natural plant regardless. Its made its own natural modifications to adapt to an unnatural optimal environment. So, thats still way different then gene splicing in a lab to me. Nature knows what its doing, and needs to do to survive. Its be doing this for more then millennia. We have only been messing around with unnatural formations of nature (aka GMO) for not ever 100 years. Not even 50 years if Im not mistaken. 1000's of years versus less then 50 years if you want to look at it from an evolutionary stand point. GMO is even more deterring if you look at nature as"creation". Which its been created to adapt(evolve) to a changing environment.


We dont know the effects of GMO to the full extent. All I know is everything man made causes some sort of damage to the bodies health. So, Im not for GMO cannabis in any way, shape or form. Cross breeding is NOT GMO. No matter what the GMO advocates tell you. Thats a misleading lie.

 

[TheJesus]

If that forever bud shit was even remotely true, it would documented and videoed all over the net.

 

[gbd]

If that forever bud shit was even remotely true, it would documented and videoed all over the net.

It hasn't been released yet. I'm sure we'll be hearing more of it next year. Then again, maybe not. Commercial growers probably won't announce that they're selling genetically modified buds, so it may remain under the radar still. Have you heard of many of their other strains? They're all new hat to me. Strains with 40-50% thc!? That's amazing! Something with a 4:1 ratio of trichs to flower, it's all just so nutty!

 

[Eekman]

No ON GMO'd flowers.

And not all grow indoors. Some genes have been modified, but not engineered with foriegn substances.

Someone mentioned before, the reason that GMO's are so scary, is they don't tell you anything. What's in it (proprietary), or even if it's in things (US government rules say they don't have to label them)

I prefer organic, hand in dirt, salt of the earth things. Medicine and cannabis alike.

My two.


Eek

 

[NekoSempai]

Those forever buds sounds kinda of scary. Im just concerned of this GMO making cannabis actually toxic/ and or harmful.


That 16 hour shit is making it sound like a drug now. I was thinking if I made an edible. Which last WAY longer then smoking.


So would it last for 3-4 days? and when I fell a sleep. Would I sleep for 12 hours instead of 8-9..or rather sleep an entire 24 once I did fall a sleep? seeing as a potent edible can make me sleep 10 hours straight easy.

 

[mauricem00]

The way I look at it is, its a natural plant. Naturally adapting to its environment. Its still a natural plant regardless. Its made its own natural modifications to adapt to an unnatural optimal environment. So, thats still way different then gene splicing in a lab to me. Nature knows what its doing, and needs to do to survive. Its be doing this for more then millennia. We have only been messing around with unnatural formations of nature (aka GMO) for not ever 100 years. Not even 50 years if Im not mistaken. 1000's of years versus less then 50 years if you want to look at it from an evolutionary stand point. GMO is even more deterring if you look at nature as"creation". Which its been created to adapt(evolve) to a changing environment.


We dont know the effects of GMO to the full extent. All I know is everything man made causes some sort of damage to the bodies health. So, Im not for GMO cannabis in any way, shape or form. Cross breeding is NOT GMO. No matter what the GMO advocates tell you. Thats a misleading lie.

the genes they add in a lab come from natural living organisms too. I am not a fan of gmo and wish companies were required to identify these so I can avoid them.I do not know what the unintended consequences would be from adding a gene from a toxic plant to a tomato would be and neither do they but they have been accidentally modifying our genes with chemicals for over 50 years. they just do not do the safty testing required before they put a new product on the market and even after it is banned in this country it is still sold and used in third world countries we import our food from.

 

[420ing]

Have you guys and gals seen this? "Forever Buds"

PUBLIC REALEASE February 2015

A Single Marijuana Plant That Gives Buds For Decades
Marijuana plants flower when they are just a few weeks of age, but then they die. Now, BC Seeds has discovered the genetic switch that keeps the plants young for decades, keeping it stuck in the flowing stage which permits its owner, year round production of unlimited buds.
This is great news for those who want to avoid harsh legal penalties for growing multiple plants, when just a single plant will produce 20 lbs each year. Though eventually, the legal system will adjust its laws to punish a grower harshly for a single genetically modified plant, it’s still the Wild West in British Columbia for marijuana production. The costs involving testing plant DNA to prove that the owners single plant was genetically modified, is not currently cost effective, and the cases could be thrown out of court. It is difficult to even prove that growing GM marijuana is illegal, as it has been modified from what is currently labeled as illegal.
Forever Buds is what we call her.
We first started tinkering with marijuana DNA back in the late 70’s, but we have hit some major milestones since 1996 and again in 2005.
For our previous customers that are pure Organic conscious, they do not need to worry, our marijuana genetic modifications laboratory was a completely separate facility off-site and nowhere near the seed production facility for our retail customers. We have never previously sold genetically modified marijuana seeds, and never would without disclosing this information to the customer.
A typical marijuana plants life outdoors in British Columbia, Canada, starts in the spring and is harvested in the fall. But today, in the warmer climatic regions of world where frost is rare, they can survive outdoors for decades, producing buds year round. Our first mom was planted in a green house in British Columbia in late spring of 2005, and she still has buds being produced in the middle of winter 2013. She is almost 8 years old and is producing buds all the time, though we do admit, bud production does slow considerably from Mid-November through to the first week of March, yet she produces on average, 21.4 lbs per year, dried bud of the utmost quality.
In her first year, she produced only 4.2 lbs, but she was planted on May 28[SUP]th[/SUP], a very late start here in British Columbia. By the time she was two years old, she was 9’ 8” tall. And in her third year, we had to transplant her to a greenhouse with a much taller roof.
Today, she stands at 28’ 5” and produced 29.9 lbs of bud ending December 31[SUP]st[/SUP], 2012. We think she would be considerably taller if we didn’t trim off her buds all year round and also being limited to a ceiling height of just 30’.
We have found the fountain of youth of marijuana, yet we do not know how our customers are going to feel about buying, growing and smoking genetically modified marijuana. And growing up a 30’ tall plant is not going to be easy to hide from your neighbors and airplane patrols.


http://bcseeds.com/indoor-forever-buds-p-159.html

Wow i never knew there were private companies already tinkering with cannabis genetic and i mean seed companies i know the big pharama and government have probobly been tinkering with this stuff for years on the backburner so they have something to monopolise the market with if it ever becames fully legal and acceptable. How much money does it cost to contract this type of work out and what are the laws on it? I dont understand how BCseeds could tinker with genetics back in the 70's at the genetic level i thought that for a company to do stuff like that they would need alot of lab equipment and scientists with the knowledge of gene transfer techniques to be able to acheive this? Do you think they are just making it sound more sci-fi as a gimmick to get people curiosity perked up about it when in actual fact they just got lucky and found some mutants that had these traits naturaly? I have to go to work but im gonna come back and read those links im very curiouis now and even a bit worried that i may have even smoked some of this stuff already.

 

[gbd]

I can't begin to imagine what a 16 hour thai high would be like! I don't think it's a sci-fi gimmicky thing because they're obviously aware of how people are leery of gmo products. And they don't label any of their traditional crosses as gmo, even though they could be considered so. They even throw up a warning to the 'organic conscious' about it, and clearly state that none of their previous seeds have been gmo, and that they have a separate facility just for gmo.

 

[420ing]

I can't begin to imagine what a 16 hour thai high would be like! I don't think it's a sci-fi gimmicky thing because they're obviously aware of how people are leery of gmo products. And they don't label any of their traditional crosses as gmo, even though they could be considered so. They even throw up a warning to the 'organic conscious' about it, and clearly state that none of their previous seeds have been gmo, and that they have a separate facility just for gmo.

I have to admit it. I want to smoke that stuff that gets u high for 16 hours imagine the money you would save on weed LOL. Sounds amazing to me! I could toke before work and be high when i fall asleep!