musterion
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http://nypost.com/2016/03/04/the-marijuana-industry-has-a-dirty-little-secret/
Greedy sellers selling poisons to stupid greedy stoners. Who coulda predicted it.
"The Marijuana Industry's Dirty Little Secret"
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http://nypost.com/2016/03/04/the-marijuana-industry-has-a-dirty-little-secret/
Greedy sellers selling poisons to stupid greedy stoners. Who coulda predicted it.
Could turn out to be a real problem with inhaling pesticides by smoking.
Most any crop needs pest control, even our food crops.
Many of those foods can be washed before consumption (like fruits and vegetables).
But things like grain and tobacco products can't be washed before consumption.
I don't know what grocery stores do about inspecting crops for too much pesticide.
Even with government regulations, there is just not enough man power to check every crop brought in.
It truly is a buyer beware situation.
The Colorado Department of Agriculture has identified and published a list of "minimum risk pesticides" that pose little or no risk to human health (18) and are allowable for use on marijuana during cultivation. Eagle 20 (myclobutanil) is not on this list, but the absence of regulatory oversight has contributed to its widespread use in marijuana cultivation in Colorado.
Federal guidance is unlikely, given the legal status of marijuana. It falls on Colorado to build on the guidelines issued by the CDA to implement more stringent regulation, including pesticide residue testing, to prevent tainted product from reaching the open marketplace and consumers.
-- http://www.coloradogreenlab.com/blo...ntext-of-cannabis-cultivation-and-consumption
Federal guidance is unlikely, given the legal status of marijuana. It falls on Colorado to build on the guidelines issued by the CDA to implement more stringent regulation, including pesticide residue testing, to prevent tainted product from reaching the open marketplace and consumers.
-- http://www.coloradogreenlab.com/blo...ntext-of-cannabis-cultivation-and-consumption
PureX
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Hmmmm … Using pesticides, just like every other food-grower in the United States and elsewhere. Who woulda guessed?
How much you wanna bet that Monsanto is working on a genetically modified pot plant as we speak?
The drug pushers could put rat poison in the pot and the dopers wouldn't care. I offered a cough drop to a young woman the other day that was having a coughing fit. After she declined, I asked her if she had been smoking dope, to which she replied "yes". There's already enough harmful chemicals in marijuana,
http://adai.uw.edu/marijuana/factsheets/respiratoryeffects.htm
adding pesticides to it is just another nail in the proverbial coffin.
http://adai.uw.edu/marijuana/factsheets/respiratoryeffects.htm
adding pesticides to it is just another nail in the proverbial coffin.
Did you think to ask her if she smoked tobaccy? There's already ennough harmful chemicals in tobacco, http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/whatsinit.htm
adding pesticides to it is just another nail in the proverbial coffin.
Newman
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Why is this issue special to marijuana? Consumer demand may dictate that marijuana growers use some sort of pesticide over another, or even none at all.
This is the same with any good. Grocery stores have a large, lower-priced produce section, and a smaller, higher-priced organic section. Consumers decide, based on their own preferences, which account for taste, risk, willingness to pay, social factors (like boycotting a firm that uses a particular production process they don't like), and all sorts of things.
This is the same with any good. Grocery stores have a large, lower-priced produce section, and a smaller, higher-priced organic section. Consumers decide, based on their own preferences, which account for taste, risk, willingness to pay, social factors (like boycotting a firm that uses a particular production process they don't like), and all sorts of things.
Newman
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It's an awfully Leftist, big-government sort of thing to regulate a thing for "the citizen's own good". The premise is that individuals don't know what's best for them and so the nanny state must protect us from ourselves.
Modern so-called "conservatives" are not conservative. Modern so-called "liberals" are not liberal. They are all big-government Leftists.
Modern so-called "conservatives" are not conservative. Modern so-called "liberals" are not liberal. They are all big-government Leftists.
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
because it's one of the few consumer products intended to be taken in through the lungs
PureX
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Sure, because big capitalist corporations would never sell anyone a harmful product, for the sake of profit.
Why? She admitted that the coughing is from pot use. Should I have a list on hand of other irritants to the lungs that she might have used so that you'll feel better about your drug the next time I run across a similar situation?
You seem to think that those who smoke dope automatically smoke cigarettes. Not so. The idea behind marijuana (which I recall you saying you don't use because it's harmful) is to get hiiiiigh so that you can escape the realities of this world.
In a society that espouses godly values, it's the government's duty to protect it's populace from godless Libertarians such as yourself Newman.
Since the legalization of marijuana here in WA State, I see a lot of youth standing out on public sidewalks smoking pot. I tell the boys that marijuana use can lead to testicular cancer:
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/study-links-marijuana-use-to-testicular-cancer
and you should see the look of horror on their faces. The idea of possibly losing the use of a much cherished part of the body doesn't appeal to neither the boy who is smoking the poison, nor to his girlfriend who will later in life undoubtedly want enjoy all of the 'benefits' of marriage.
Ooooo, I'll use that one too!
Since you are going that route you might as well show them this movie too.....Pretty much along the same lines. :juggle:
Why do you take pride in helping to ruin people's lives Tom?
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