Marijuana should be tested for chemicals!
All dispensaries should have a fraction of their medication tested with a certification about its safety and potency for all patients to choose what they want to put in their bodies.
It is in the light of safety that we see a need in this developing field of apothecary pharmacies for quality control to protect the end user from harmful chemicals all too liberally applied to ward off bugs and disease. Fertilizers, pesticides and blooming agents are popular to increase yield size, but safety procedures such as flushing the plants for 2 weeks before harvest are not always used by the casual and large scale pot growers. These are the same chemicals used in commercial farming a lot of the time and can pass on harmful toxins in the processed plant products to the end user.Other considerations are given toward the possibility of there being fungus, mold or other microorganisms growing on the smoke-able plant that could be inhaled and possibly cause lung infections.
As a medicinal herb that is cultivated by licensed growers, it should be made available for patients to have access to medicine that they know was grown organically and has a tested THC score for controlled self medicating. The reason that this plant has healing effects is due to the molecules the plant produces. Called cannabinoids, there are more than 60 in the plant but only a few that cause the effects marijuana is known for; these include: delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, highly euphoric and psychoactive), cannabidol (CBD, psychoactive), trahydrocannabiverol (THCV, euphoric and psychoactive), cannabichromene (non-euphoric). THC and CBD are the most common cannabinoid profiles used. ??The breakdown is this: one gram is equivalent to 1,000mg. Therefore, if a cannabis strain has 20% THC and 1% CBD one gram consumed is the equivalent of 200mg of THC and 10mg of CBD? (herbalsolutionsca.com/aboutus.php#lab). ??The resin of intoxicant types of plant is dominated by THC, whereas non-intoxicant types have resin dominated by CBD, and while THC is not narcotic in the sense of producing sleep, CBD has been shown to have sleep-inducing properties (Carlini and Cunah 1981)?. These studies show that it is important to know what ratio these chemicals are taken in. A person who needs medicine during the day would want a low CBD count, while someone treating their insomnia with marijuana would want a strain high in CBD. As well, it is important for patients to know how much THC is in their medicine due to its psychoactive effects.
Sincerely,
Sativa Succubus
Marijuana should be tested for chemicals!
How many growers/dispensaries do you think would be interested in having their products tested? I just posed this question in another thread. Would they pay for it? I have been talking with qualified people who could do this kind of testing, but they want to know if there is a demand for this service before embarking on it. Input please!
Marijuana should be tested for chemicals!
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Originally Posted by Ramona760
How many growers/dispensaries do you think would be interested in having their products tested? I just posed this question in another thread. Would they pay for it? I have been talking with qualified people who could do this kind of testing, but they want to know if there is a demand for this service before embarking on it. Input please!
I think the better question would be how much would you charge for such services; not friggen how much we would want to pay.
Make us an offer we can't refuse!
Marijuana should be tested for chemicals!
hello,
yea in my point of view marijuana should be tested for chemical becuase it has some type of germs may be which can effect people.
thanks !!
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Marijuana should be tested for chemicals!
there is no point putting 'chemicals' on weed because the smoker would know right away. you can also tell when it's not flushed properly.
real growers never use any pesticides or anything it's not needed if you know what you're doing. any legit medical dispensary is gonna check out the grow operation first and verify quality. the cops/dea make up the lie that there's dangerous weed
Marijuana should be tested for chemicals!
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Originally Posted by kushmongler
there is no point putting 'chemicals' on weed because the smoker would know right away. you can also tell when it's not flushed properly.
real growers never use any pesticides or anything it's not needed if you know what you're doing. any legit medical dispensary is gonna check out the grow operation first and verify quality. the cops/dea make up the lie that there's dangerous weed
Many mass-production outdoor growers in fact DO use pesticides; you're correct though, the dispensary would want to do everything it possibly could to verify that the weed is not chemically impure.
This brings up an intriguing point: should the growers who sell their weed to dispensaries be required to test/pay for testing for impurities? it's a quality control issue, really- food factories do very heavy quality control (analysis for bacteria, spoilage, and other chemical contaminants) before they sell them to grocery stores- I've never heard of a grocery store doing quality control unless they have a wave of bad products come in that cause an issue.
Should it be the growers or the dispensaries or the customers who should pay for quality control testing?
