Scientist Develops Citrus Tree with THC

Rick McCombs

17 years ago

Originally Posted by ThomM

At the cannabis forum I frequent someone is working on splicing the THC DNA into lawn grass.

Gee, I wonder what people will be doing with their grass clippings.

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17 years ago

Originally Posted by ThomM

At the cannabis forum I frequent someone is working on splicing the THC DNA into lawn grass.

Wow...if that really happens I might actually be able to get my crappy lawn crew to agree to 'bag' my grass when they cut it.

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myob 17 years ago

How is that any different from adding it to brownies? We've doing that since the 1970's, but I guess oranges are a lot healthier and have less calories.
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  Originally Posted by myob
  
  How is that any different from adding it to brownies? We've doing that since the 1970's, but I guess oranges are a lot healthier and have less calories.
  
  Back in 75 when I was shot, my buddies brought some pot brownies to the hospital for me.
  First one of the guys tried to pass them out to my roommate and anyone else in the room. Then when they gave them to me they told me to only eat one.
  Well I ate half the tray. The next day when I woke up:rolleyes: there was a doctor, 3 nurses, and my mother and father standing there staring at me. It seems I pasted out after eating the brownies and not knowing what happened they had spent almost 24 hours trying to wake me up. They even did tests to see if I was in a coma
  
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  LOL!. How much grass clippings or oranges would you have eaten back then?
  
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ThomM 17 years ago

Originally Posted by Doug English

Wow...if that really happens I might actually be able to get my crappy lawn crew to agree to 'bag' my grass when they cut it.

That's good Doug
I work for a landscape company doing all the mowing.
Up here most of the lawns I bag I can dump the clipping right on their properties. Those I can't I bring the clippings home for the compost piles.
Now that I think of it I only have 3 lawns I don't bag.
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stevenh512

17 years ago

I can see the headlines now.. "U.S. Government bans all plant life worldwide."

Actually, considering that the U.S. government holds a patent on THC, some well-placed patent infringement lawsuits will probably nip this one in the bud (no pun intended).

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ThomM

17 years ago

Originally Posted by stevenh512

I can see the headlines now.. "U.S. Government bans all plant life worldwide."

Actually, considering that the U.S. government holds a patent on THC, some well-placed patent infringement lawsuits will probably nip this one in the bud (no pun intended).

That would be synthetic THC, you can't own a patent on a naturally occurring plant substance.

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pcalvert

17 years ago

Originally Posted by ThomM

That would be synthetic THC, you can't own a patent on a naturally occurring plant substance.

Actually, you can patent a natural compound if you come up with a novel use for it. And that patent isn't specfically about THC, it's about therapeutic uses of certain cannabinoids. Although I didn't read the whole patent, it seems that they are focusing on the nonpsychoactive cannabinoids.

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ThomM

17 years ago

Originally Posted by pcalvert

Actually, you can patent a natural compound if you come up with a novel use for it. And that patent isn't specfically about THC, it's about therapeutic uses of certain cannabinoids. Although I didn't read the whole patent, it seems that they are focusing on the nonpsychoactive cannabinoids.

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Thanks for the clarification Phil.
But doesn't that mean you would placing a patent on the use?
For example say I invent an engine that ran on water.
I could patent the engine and the process so others couldn't use water in that way but not the water itself, right?

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pcalvert

17 years ago

Originally Posted by ThomM

Thanks for the clarification Phil.
But doesn't that mean you would placing a patent on the use?
For example say I invent an engine that ran on water.
I could patent the engine and the process so others couldn't use water in that way but not the water itself, right?

That's correct.

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pcalvert

17 years ago

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but this story is a hoax. I read the article and I thought there was something suspicious about it, so I did a little digging.

See: snopes.com: THC Oranges

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ThomM

17 years ago

Originally Posted by pcalvert

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but this story is a hoax. I read the article and I thought there was something suspicious about it, so I did a little digging.

See: snopes.com: THC Oranges

Phil

Good find Phil.
There where a couple of things in the article that I thought where strange.
First when he said it took him 10 years to do this and then said it was easy.
Then when he was asked to stop selling the orange seeds but they didn't ask for the names of those who bought the seeds.

The reason I was so quick to believe is because there really is a person at the cannabisculture forum working on the DNA splice with lawn grass.
Last I heard he was still trying to isolate the gene responsible for the THC production.

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17 years ago

In the 60's I did a performance at the Committee Theatre - in the day THE avant garde political theatre in San Francisco.

Our program was called "Grass Before and After" and we actually served a public audience grass tea. We were boiling it up in the theatre kitchen in a huge pot as the band I was with "The Amplified OHM' performed.

I was so ripped from brownies and tea that I could barely perform (i gave my showname as 'a vibration transmitter'.

Part of my setting was to burn frankinsense and myrrh and (this is back in the old days guerilla street theatre = FAN from Walgreens Drugstore)

- way before kiss i tried to blow the smoke from the incense onto the audience but what it did was cover the stage with smoke more than anything and choke us besides. rotfl

oh hey thomM now i know that

RIPPED and R.I.P. are in the same family of words eh?

rest in peace

opposite of
rest in pieces.

(in 'the egyptian book of the dead' that is the worst that the enemy croc i think Ak* was his name - he used to threaten Osiris/Isis/Horus saying he would scatter their joints all over (so they couldn't be mummies and be preserved) and no i don't mean pot joints but body parts.

* (Ak or something like that 30 year old memory)

EDIT GREAT NEWS ABOUT THE THC FRUITS AND VEGES! WONDERFUL!

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stevenh512

17 years ago

I find it pretty interesting that they've patented some of the "active ingredients" of the plant for medical uses, while continuing (even 6 years after the patent was issued) to claim that the plant has no medical benefits.. lol

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ThomM

17 years ago

Originally Posted by stevenh512

I find it pretty interesting that they've patented some of the "active ingredients" of the plant for medical uses, while continuing (even 6 years after the patent was issued) to claim that the plant has no medical benefits.. lol

OK now I understand what you ment with the patent thing.
Every time I read something like that one thought comes to mind.
"If brains caused pain, they wouldn't feel a thing"
They say if you lie long enough someone will believe you.
Unfortunately in this case it is the ones who tell the lies, who believe the lies.
The rest of us know they are lieing

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HeySal

17 years ago

Wow - I bet the guys that own the "High C" trademark are drinking champagne right now. LOL.

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gareth

17 years ago

Gee why not LSD then ?

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HeySal 17 years ago

Originally Posted by Iamkassi

LSD is horrible. I mean come on..its called acid. I mean just listen to yourself say that word "acid". your putting "acid" in your brain..HELLO?!!? .

Uh....Vitamin C is acid - ascorbic ACID. LOL.
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stevenh512

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Iamkassi

LSD is horrible. I mean come on..its called acid. I mean just listen to yourself say that word "acid". your putting "acid" in your brain..HELLO?!!? That's just the most retarded thing you could ever do. However, a Citrus Tree with THC is somethiing fantastic! Even tho THC is a mild form of LSD..

THC is not a form of LSD. LSD was originally developed as a synthetic form of seratonin (a neurotransmitter that your body creates naturally under normal circumstances.. among other things it helps regulate mood and sleep patterns). The story I've always heard (don't know how true it is) was that it was originally developed to be used as a psychiatric drug, but didn't quite work as expected. That would make sense, considering that most antidepressants are seratonin inhibitors.

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pcalvert

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Iamkassi

LSD is horrible. I mean come on..its called acid. I mean just listen to yourself say that word "acid". your putting "acid" in your brain..HELLO?!!? That's just the most retarded thing you could ever do.

That's just a nickname. It's not really an acid, it's an amide: lysergic acid diethylamide. And don't let the word "acid" in the name fool you; the carboxyl group of lysergic acid is what gets converted into the amide. I know, that's probably more than you wanted to know.

See, organic chemistry can be interesting.

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17 years ago

Iamkassi you are cute - wanna be my warriorforum girlfriend ?

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myob 17 years ago

Thom, the story may be a hoax, but my old family recipe for THC brownie mix is proven. It can also be used in lawn clippings, or added to orange juice.
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HeySal

17 years ago

Actually - LSD was discovered quite accidentally when Hoffman was attempting to make a drug for the pharmaceutical companies.

LSD is from the alkaloids of the ergot plant - ergot was used to stop hemorages and it was assumed that he was making a compound with analeptic properties. (stimulates central nervous system). He discovered it gets you high when he got some on his finger and it absorbed. After that they looked into psychological uses - which was the work Leary later ended up in Jail for. His papers on uses of LSD for superlearning were confiscated and suppressed.

Hoffman lived to be 102, by the way, and he really enjoyed his find.

As far as Snopes - I wouldn't be too sure that they are telling the truth about this one. I've seen that site used for disinformation more than once.

You can color plants by sticking food coloring in the water you give them. Don't see why they can't absorb THC - but I am not sure how they would get it to actually produce the stuff. With genetic engineering now available, anything is possible.

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stevenh512 17 years ago

Interesting, that's more than I've ever known about LSD.. lol.. all I really know about it for sure is that it binds the seratonin receptors. You can get a similar (if not quite as intense) effect by depriving yourself of sleep for several days.

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Hoffman lived to be 102, by the way, and he really enjoyed his find.

lol.. yeah I bet he did
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HeySal

17 years ago

Actually, Steven - it can damage your seratonin receptors - messes them up totally.
Can't prove it by me though. -I'm over 50 and actually sleep every night now for at least 5 hours. When I was in my late teens and early 20s it was my drug of choice. I loved the stuff. Probably still would if it were the same as it was in the late 60's early 70's. Even when not buzzing I used to go a couple of days at a time with no sleep. Just didn't seem to need or want it. Saratonin receptor damage? Uh...ya think? LOL.

Of course, my body doesn't take kindly to much of anything buzzy any more. In college I led some study groups and we used the stuff in accordance to Leary's findings and everyone in the group was Dean's list, LMAO.

I've heard that the stuff damages reproductive chromosomes as well, but I never had kids so have no clue. I know a lot of people who tripped a lot and their kids seemed to be just fine for the most part - other than a few that had psychological damage from being raised by some pretty whacked parents.

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stevenh512

17 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Actually, Steven - it can damage your seratonin receptors - messes them up totally.

Yeah, it basically "floods" them with more "seratonin" (as far as they're concerned) than they were naturally meant to accept.

Can't prove it by me though. -I'm over 50 and actually sleep every night now for at least 5 hours.

I've always been an insomniac, never have been able to get a good night's sleep even when I was a kid, so I can't really blame that one on any damage to my seratonin receptors.. lol

When I was in my late teens and early 20s it was my drug of choice. I loved the stuff. Probably still would if it were the same as it was in the late 60's early 70's. Even when not buzzing I used to go a couple of days at a time with no sleep. Just didn't seem to need or want it. Saratonin receptor damage? Uh...ya think? LOL.

I actually used it quite a bit and really enjoyed it in my High School years.. oddly enough, I slept best when I was buzzing, and the dreams were pretty intense.

Of course, my body doesn't take kindly to much of anything buzzy any more. In college I led some study groups and we used the stuff in accordance to Leary's findings and everyone in the group was Dean's list, LMAO.

Yeah I bet.. the first time I ever tried it, I actually sat down in front of my uncle's computer and wrote an entire Space Invaders clone game in C++ in a matter of a couple hours, spent the rest of the day fighting aliens. The next day I couldn't make heads or tails of my code, had no idea how it worked, it just did.. lmao

I've heard that the stuff damages reproductive chromosomes as well, but I never had kids so have no clue. I know a lot of people who tripped a lot and their kids seemed to be just fine for the most part - other than a few that had psychological damage from being raised by some pretty whacked parents.

I don't have any kids myself, but my cousin used to do a lot of LSD in his High School years and both of his kids seem perfectly normal.

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