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How can it be medicinal if it's grown in chemicals and sprayed with pesticides?
How can it be medicinal if it's grown in chemicals and sprayed with pesticides?
Dec 2023
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A little goes a long way There are many benefits to organically soil grown cannabis. Here’s how “a little goes a long way” with organic cannabis: Higher cannabinoid and terpene profiles provide consumers with more medicinal benefits and a higher quality overall experience. Burns better and lasts longer. Does not use chemicals or pesticides that are harmful to your health. Produces far less waste and negative environmental impacts.
Smokes much smoother due to the organic amendments. Induces a very different high. Organic Cannabis is cultivated in small batches and carefully watched after, It is hand watered and grown in a wonderful nutrient rich Super Soil giving it that smooth smoke, flavor and sensation.
What is organically-grown, craft cannabis?
Organically grown cannabis, like all agricultural products, starts with the soil. Many people ask why soil is so important — it’s because real soil is a living organism that provides nutrients to the plants the way Mother Nature intended.
Living soils are full of insects and micro-organisms that feed the plants – they require horticulturalists that understand how to maintain them. They need far less water and don’t result in waste like the synthetic cultivation methods. It’s far more complicated than feeding a chemical cocktail, but it’s how plants naturally take up the nutrients needed to grow.”
Higher cannabinoid and terpene profiles
When cannabis is grown in a living soil, the resulting plants have higher concentrations of cannabinoids, terpenes and other phytochemicals.
You’re going to get a higher quality experience in terms of flavor, aroma, medicinal value and recreational effects,
We refer to this as the entourage effect, a synergistic effect of cannabinoids and terpenes in a healthy, organically grown plant. Cannabinoids are chemicals that are unique to the plant and interact with receptors in the central nervous system. Two of the most well-known cannabinoids within the cannabis plant are THC (tetrahydrocannabinols), which creates the high feeling, and CBD (cannabidiols), which is non-psychoactive. Terpenes, which form the basis of aromatherapy, occur in all kinds of plants and react with receptors in the brain to produce various effects.
Superior smoke
In addition to soil, how your cannabis is dried, cured and trimmed makes a big difference,
The craft cultivator takes care to dry, cure and trim the flowers to provide the optimal consumer experience. Large commercial cultivators often cut corners during this process. Since marijuana is sold by weight, many commercial growers will push product out that is too wet because it weighs more. However, once that product hits the stores, it dries and flakes quickly.
Properly dried, cured and hand-trimmed cannabis flower will last longer and burn more slowly.
No chemicals
All cannabis grown in or for dispensaries is grown using hydroponics, aeroponics or other synthetic methods that do not utilize soil. The plants are placed in an inert substance, such as coco or rockwool cubes and they are fed a cocktail of chemical nutrients to produce higher yields. These flowers are often lacking in cannabinoids, terpenes and other phytochemicals that give cannabis its overall effect,
Think about tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables — the ones grown hydroponically will be big and red but have very little flavor, aroma or nutritional value, while the organically-grown tomatoes are fragrant, sweet and loaded with nutrients. It’s the same with cannabis.
The smoke is harsh due to the build up of chemicals in every fiber of the plant as it's growing, They all claim they flush, however there is no possible way you can flush out the chemicals, because the plant is grown in them and IS THEM! Remember you are what you eat, this is true for the plant World also.
There is no soil involved so the flavor is flat and tastes like the chemicals they are.
Often you will hear people say it’s an “organic hydroponic cultivation, that’s an oxymoron. Cultivating any plants without soil means you must use chemicals to feed the plants.
While not all chemicals are harmful, they are inferior ways to feed plants.
To maximize yields, commercial grows will crowd plants which often results in poor air flow, molds, mites and other pests. They only have one choice at that point, which is to spray chemical pesticides,” she said. “Organically grown plants are typically spaced further apart to provide adequate air flow to inhibit pests. They also use beneficial insects and plants to mitigate pests.”
What you’re ingesting
Cannabis that is grown with chemicals and pesticides has been known to produce burn in the throat and lungs, greater cough, headaches and hangovers, not to mention the long-term damage to your health.
If you consume organically, you’re not going to experience those things.
People can tell the difference, Bowls will actually spark and not burn clean with non-organic cannabis. A typical pre roll will boat and burn black ash. This is a sure sign you are smoking cannabis grown with toxic chemicals and pesticides.
That burning sensation in the throat that many cannabis users have experienced at some point shouldn’t be associated with marijuana consumption.
That burn isn’t supposed to be part of the experience,
There should be a very smooth creamy mouthfeel with no harsh burn paired with a very lovely clean high. Many who experience anxiety after they smoke are feeling the effects of ingesting chemicals into their lungs which immediately transmits throughout the entire Endocannabinoid System often times causing anxiety and undesirable paranoia.
More disturbing is the Cannabis Control Commission has been installed to regulate for safe cannabis consumption but approves these cultivation methods, Furthermore, the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources has approved pesticide use for cannabis growers. Because growing cannabis in hydro systems ( in water) the plant can not develop a natural healthy immune system as they do in organic living soil, and therefore can not naturally fight of pests, disease and mold, so spraying with chemical pesticides is allowed since November 2022.
Go to Mass.gov and in the search bar type in pesticide use on cannabis or click here
Supporting Corporate Cannabis Dispensaries is supporting a CEO to purchase his or her third vacation home. They only care about the bottom line dollars and pleasing their share holders.
You are also supporting a massive carbon footprint of water usage.
The truth is, sadly, there is not enough profit in organic living soil grown cannabis and it is not available thru the retail market.
Next time you wander into a dispensary ASK, "Do you have Organic Soil Grown Flower?" The answer will be 99.9% of the time NO!
