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RE: Cannabis - To Modify or Not To Modify
A lot to address here...
Extractions can be made with or without chemical solvents. Either way can produce a safe extract. It is a great way to glean the trichomes from an otherwise undesirable product (trim and leaves). Crossbreeding for certain traits, such as potency, allows growers to grow more product in less space with less water and energy consumption. Hydroponics deliver the necessary nutrients, can be done organically and saves water when done properly. The ruderalis shown in the photo will require much more smoke inhalation and won't get you high...
I agree to the extent that someone is at home and cooking or extracting their own cannabis, however, if you are buying your eatables and extracts from a store, you really have nothing to go on but their word, and we all know the reputations of corporations rather well. They will do or say anything in order to make a dollar. They just want your money and often have no regard for your health whatsoever. The issue of crossbreeding for greater potency so that corporations can grow more "product" in less space with less energy, is still turning away from nature and mutating the cannabis plant to suit corporate desires, rather than using the entheogen as nature provides it. While I can see you points for the merit they offer, I disagree that "getting high" should be the ultimate goal of growing cannabis, and even if it were, it should be grown naturally no matter what the cost. At some point there will be no original cannabis left and everyone will be stuck with something that is far too powerful and unnaturally overwhelming simply due to past corporate greed to make money rather than preserving this awesome medicine. Thats just my opinion, and I welcome further exchange.
The extracts now being sold in California are safer than the glyphosate covered vegetables at the local market. Regulations require inspection for pesticides and microbials. I agree that there is plenty of corporate greed entering this space and transforming it purely for profit. However, it's the old school growers that have taken cannabis to the next level, not VCs. The cannabis I smoke today is way safer than the stuff we used to get 30 years ago that had mold, mildew and the occasional diesel fuel fumes from being trucked across the border in a fuel tank.
You'll get no argument from me in terms of the filth they place on and in the food supply, but truly that in no way addresses my position. Hitting your self in the face with a hammer is far better than shooting yourself in the face, so lets all get our hammers ready, right? Well no, these are both harmful, and so both should stop. Addressing a greater evil does not justify a lesser evil. They have to be addressed individually, and so I suggest that we do. You do make a good point that several modern standards are safer than past standards, so I'd like to ask you to list several if you be so kind. What would you say are the top five benefits of modern cannabis farming, and what did they improve? I will note, however, that the need to smuggle cannabis in fuel tanks was born of legal limitations which in many ways represents a corporation, government, gang in its own right. Obviously I have as little respect for the government as I do the corporation.
Crossbreeding and extracting is in no way "evil". This discussion is pointless.
If you'd paid attention you'd see that cross breeding and extraction are not our primary topic, rather it is the standard by which such is conducted, and the lack of standards by corporations whose agenda in monetary profit. Good day to you, sir. Please do find yourself a discussion with a point. lol
Not the primary topic, but relevant. Can you show me spectrometer readings from trichomes that contain the synthetic nutrients from non-organic growers? Until you can, it's just misguided speculation. In terms of GMO I do not know that it has taken "root" in the industry as of yet.
You mention entheogenic properties...i.e. 'getting high'.
That corporate greed will destroy the quality of a consumable is not speculation whatsoever, as there are more than enough examples across the market of plants of any kind. And No, sir, the term enthogen does not imply getting "high". It implies conscious expansion and shamanistic uses, not the lay persons recreational base consciousness.