I meant that Steve was doing research as I believe Dr. Russo and Mr. Watson? of Hortifarm?? does/did...

Mainly, the certain strains, as Sam Adams mentioned, that help with certain ailments....mainly it is a breakdown of ratios of thc/cbd/cbn... plus alot more I'm sure....

The cool thing is that when this plant actually gets studied, there is just a whole lot of interesting aspects....lol....

This is just from speaking to Steve about the science....

Today is a good day in the news.... I shall have a good weekend...and I wish the same to everyone!!!!

It's a crime to deny a sick person because one researcher want to be able to montior 3% THC when a strain never ever will stay the same. Today, it is 3%, tomorrow it grows 4%.

This is a sick policy! In a field of green sea, it is mightly hard to keep track of each plant.

All this is just a sham to deny sick folks.

You can also take good genetics and mess up growing them....the rule of thumb is, you can only maximize your growing to the genetic potential of the seed.

As for Health Canada... all I can say is... I don't think any of them know what the hell they are doing....

Steven Tuck's genetics were SPECIFICALLY designed for medical purposes.. he's been doing this research for YEARS...he even informed HC on the specifics, but either they didn't use them, or they didn't listen...either way.. they are ignorant of this plant...

But, I am SOOO glad to hear Canadian Congressmen/Congresswomen come out and openly say these things....it's really refreshing...

I think this next time around will be amazing, hopefully HC will take full advantage of what Steve has to offer... he's not just a grower...he's a scientist....a very dedicated and compassionate scientist...

If doctors had 185 varieties of penicillin in one pill, the bacteria that threaten our lives would be very challanged to come up with resistance to all of them at once.

Is this not true?

I think one advantage of cannabis over manufactured pharmaceuticals is that cannabis is an evolving organism and not subject to the limitations of purity that arise from manufactured pharmaceuticals.

Think about antibiotics for example. Staph bacteria is getting resistant to specific antibiotics. Each antibiotic is a pure stable chemical product produced and refined and purified at great expense in a lab and a factory.

Impurity in this context would be stuff entering the chemical that simply does not belong.

But the bacteria become resistant to a manufactured drug, you have to invent a whole new drug to combat it.

If antibiotics could be evolved like plants, maybe they could evolve enough diversity so that bacteria could never get the upper hand over all the possible evolved varieties of the antibiotic.

The big advantage to a plant-based medicine over a manufactured medicine is that the plant itself is your factory, and the factory can be changed to alter the formula at very low expense, just the expense of a plant breeding operation, not the expense of retooling a whole chemical manufacturing process.

The impurity in cannabis that they are talking about here is not that non-cannabis is able to contaminate the cannabis -- it's just that they aren't sure which strain they are using.

That's not necessarily a disadvantage. Perhaps the variability of cannabis strains to which medical patients are exposed is one reason why we don't observe people buuilding up tolerance or resistance to their medication.

Tolerance and resistance are very serious problems that occur with manufactured pharmaceuticals.

It is traditional to think that something assembled in a pure sterile controlled environment is more stable and pure and inherently better than something that grew on its own according to its own internal genetic information in dirt.

But growing on its own in dirt -- that's how life evolved and so far life is far more clever and powerful than anything assembled or poured together in a lab or pharmaceutical factory.

Life is at once potent and impure. Think about that.

The impurity of a living organism comes from the wisdom encoded in its genome from millions of years of acquiring knowldge through evolution.

If we humans could only harness that wisdom in our pharmaceutical production process!

So instead of 100% low-quality schwag, Canada grew partially-good MJ. Had they used US seed, they would have ended up with the garbage MJ the US exemptees are handed each month.

Hey Canada- Hi? How are doing? Boston MA here.. I have a question for ya- Why don't you grow a sack and learn how to unsign a treaty like us? You want Marijuana? We don't want the world court

You can't even control your lumber industry

Don't worry FOM, all this will fall of deaf ears.

You want Marijuana? We don't want the world court

You can't even control your lumber industry

Senator Carney understands the healing power of cannabis. Being a Senator, not having to worry about re-election, and from the Conservative Party not the ruling Liberals, she is in a position to freely speak out citing the debacle of raising the hopes of suffering Canadians, only to maliciously dash them. While some may hope that Health Canada can grow a nice standardized crop, the continued delays underline the stance of Compassion Club operators such as Ted Smith, Hilary Black, and Phil Lucus that patients should be able to obtain whole plant medicine, a choice of varieties, clean and inspected, locally produced, and reasonably priced.

Citing the U.S. government refusal as the reason why standardized seeds couldn’t be obtained undermines Health Minister Ann McLellan’s creditability. Marc Emery would have given them to Health Canada for free. They received many seeds from Steve Tuck. Instead, the seeds used were those confiscated by police through raids.

If the Canadian Supreme Court declares marijuana prohibition unconstitutional, the decision to decrim (or not) doesn't have to be made by frightened little politicians, no international treaty is broken and the US can take a flying leap. The Canadian people would not tolerate an attempt to subsequently alter their Constitution so they can constitutionally bust marijuana users.