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Facebook. Seasons. 03.10.2012 - Grubbycup The four seasons are especially important to outdoor Cannabis. It is an easy spice to grow (to be correct, it's a spice - not an herb - since the flower clusters are the part of the plant that is harvested and consumed), with a pretty distinct growing season. Plant Cannabis after the spring equinox, and harvest around the fall equinox. Cannabis is affected by 'photoperiodism', which means that it uses the duration of the dark periods to determine when to flower.

Flowering hormones slowly build up over the long night for use the following day. Light interrupts this process, which is why a light that breaks up the dark period can prevent flowering, and introduce stress. In outdoor gardens, spring, fall and winter all have longer nights than the short nights of summer. Under many different names and guises, seasonal holidays are common. Many countries have spring planting and fertility celebrations. Summer Solstice is at midsummer, around June 22nd. Issue. What's in the stuff, and what does it do? There is no simple answer. There are hundreds, if not thousands of different products, and while...

Read more Every year for the last six years the Bern Gallery has held the 'Pipe Classic', a battle royale of a dozen of the world's best and... Read more The four seasons are especially important to outdoor Cannabis. Read more When attempting to grow Cannabis a little thought should always be given to the weather conditions outside - even when you're growing...

Read more With a little care and common sense, many dangers involved with a grow room can be avoided. Read more The 'sweets' in this article are a treat for your lady Cannabis plants. Read more Get comfortable, light up, and let us take a stroll among the nutrients. Buried Treasure: Hemp Roots. 02.23.2012 - Kali Mist Given our exhaustive use of the hemp and Cannabis plant - making use of the fiber, leaves, flowers, seeds and resin - it seems strange that there should be any element that has thus far escaped the notice of the modern herbalist. Perhaps because it usually spends its days hidden beneath the soil, the humble root is vastly under-explored, compared to the other components of the plant. However, looking at pre-prohibition medical- and veterinary literature, it is apparent that our ancestors (as with so many lost secrets and traditions) knew very well about its specific healing properties. The first mention of hemp root as medicine can be found in the ancient Chinese pharmacopeia, the Shen Nung Pên-ts'ao Ching, as early as the third millennium BCE.

It is stated that the juice of the root has diuretic properties, as well as being useful in assisting the cessation of hemorrhage after childbirth. Currently, there are few hemp root products on the market. Why Growing Numbers of Pot Smokers Eat Mango Before Lighting Up. July 8, 2014 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. It’s not a proven scientific fact, but many pot smokers are consuming mangoes an hour before lighting up to boost their highs. According to Marijuana.com, there’s a good chance that the myrcene molecules found in mango can possibly “increase, strengthen and even lengthen” the euphoric feeling from smoking marijuana. Marijuana already contains more than 100 terpene molecules that are responsible for affecting THC in the brain and giving highs their ebbs and flows. "I don't know the answer and the reason we don't know the answer is because our government in its infinite wisdom didn't permit any research in this area for many years," said Christopher Hudalla, chief scientific officer at ProVerde Labs.

Myrcene is responsible for the aromas of apricots, walnuts and Valencia oranges and is widely used in the perfume industry. Clarissa A. Everything you want to know about legal pot in Washington | The Evergreen. A medical marijuana grow operation. (Photo by Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times, 2013) Answers to all of your questions about the new legal retail marijuana system and much more.

Who can consume legal pot Let’s be clear: Washington voters legalized weed for adults, not minors. Minors can’t legally consume pot. How old must you be to legally buy or possess pot in Washington? You have to be at least 21 to legally buy or possess pot. How will the new law be policed? The state Liquor Control Board plans to employ minors to conduct sting operations at legal pot stores.

What about tourists and out-of-state friends? Adults from out-of-state are treated no differently from Washington residents by our law. By the way, how much is an ounce of pot in practical terms? Joints can obviously vary in size. Will the state track my legal pot purchases? State officials say no. Can medical-marijuana patients buy pot in the new retail stores?

Yes. Back to top The basics of pot today So what’s THC? Breeding? Yes. Edibles. (56) Facebook. Cannabis Kills All Known Germs..Dead..Including MRSA Superbug | Medical Marijuana | MedicalMarijuana411.com | The Daily Dose | Medical Marijuana. Originally posted in Cannabis News Dr. Robert Melamede, PhD., Director and Chief Science Officer for American based Cannabis Science Inc, reported recently on the current state of research into the use of natural plant cannabinoids to reduce the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA), and the prospects for development of topical whole-cannabis treatments The increase in MRSA infection in UK hospitals is a growing concern for both doctors and patients alike, but according to an American based company an effective, cannabis-based disinfectant is available to fight the super-bug.

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a type of bacteria which has become increasingly resistant to antibiotics. MRSA infection has become increasingly difficult to treat, and can lead to death. The number of cases of MRSA has been rising sharply – from 2,422 in 1997 in England and Wales, to 7,684 in 2003/4 in England alone. Legislators Ask Why Mexicans Should Die Over A Drug The U.S. Is Legalizing. Two Mexican legislators say they're sick of cramming their jails full of pot smokers. Few countries have suffered the consequences of the U.S. -led war on drugs more than Mexico. As the principal supplier of marijuana to the United States, as well as a major transit country for cocaine and other hard drugs, Mexico has seen organized crime flourish within its borders. According to some estimates, as many as 80,000 Mexicans have died since former President Felipe Calderón launched a frontal assault on the country's drug cartels in 2006, and Mexico has seen its prison population nearly double since the 1990s, largely from prosecuting drug crimes.

To change this, Sen. "Why is it that Mexico has to keep filling up with dead bodies and addicts, when in the United States the drug is becoming legal? " The federal bill would legalize possession of up to 30 grams of weed, permit the use of medical marijuana and make it legal to grow the plant. To judge from interdiction figures, Llerenas is right. Inside The Pot Stock Bubble. The Landscape-Scarring, Energy-Sucking, Wildlife-Killing Reality of Pot Farming. Starting about 90 miles northwest of Sacramento, an unbroken swath of national forestland follows the spine of California's rugged coastal mountains all the way to the Oregon border. Near the center of this vast wilderness, along the grassy banks of the Trinity River's south fork, lies the remote enclave of Hyampom (pop. 241), where, on a crisp November morning, I climb into a four-wheel-drive government pickup and bounce up a dirt logging road deep into the Six Rivers National Forest.

I've come to visit what's known in cannabis country as a "trespass grow. " "This one probably has the most plants I've seen," says my driver, a young Forest Service cop who spends his summers lugging an AR-15 through the backcountry of the Emerald Triangle—the triad of Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties that is to pot what the Central Valley is to almonds and tomatoes. Fearing retaliation from growers, the officer asks that I not use his name. "This is unicorns and rainbows, isn't it? " The Mysterious History Of 'Marijuana' : Code Switch.

Hide captionOne of the many, many forms of cannabis. "it was 3 a.m. "/via Flickr One of the many, many forms of cannabis. We've decided to take a weekly look at a word or phrase that's caught our attention, whether for its history, usage, etymology, or just because it has an interesting story. Marijuana has been intertwined with race and ethnicity in America since well before the word "marijuana" was coined. Throughout the 19th century, news reports and medical journal articles almost always use the plant's formal name, cannabis. A common version of the story of the criminalization of pot goes like this: Cannabis was outlawed because various powerful interests (some of which have economic motives to suppress hemp production) were able to craft it into a bogeyman in the popular imagination, by spreading tales of homicidal mania touched off by consumption of the dreaded Mexican "locoweed.

" Let's start with the race question. In 1937, U.S. The Turn Of The 20th Century.