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Israelis develop 'cannabis without the high'

LAION

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http://phys.org/news/2012-05-israelis-cannabis-high.html
sraeli scientists have cultivated a cannabis plant that doesn't get people stoned in a development that may help those smoking marijuana for medical purposes, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
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According to the Maariv daily, the new cannabis looks, smells and even tastes the same, but does not induce any of the feelings normally associated with smoking marijuana that are brought on by the substance THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol.
"It has the same scent, shape and taste as the original plant -- it's all the same -- but the numbing sensation that users are accustomed to has disappeared," said Tzahi Klein, head of development at Tikkun Olam, the firm that developed the species.
"Many of our patients who tried the new plant come back to us and say: 'You tricked me,'" because they assumed they had been given a placebo, he said.
According to Maariv, Tikkun Olam sought to neutralise the effect of the THC and to increase the effect of another substance called CBD, or cannabidiol, which has been shown to help diabetics and to ease various psychiatric disorders.
Not only does it leave users stone-cold sober, it also doesn't induce the munchies, the hunger pangs that the drug's smokers generally suffer.
Despite the innovation, it is unlikely to have any impact on Israeli law, which outlaws the use of marijuana as illegal except for medical purposes.
According to figures published earlier this year by Sheba Medical Centre and the Israel Cancer Association, medical marijuana has been approved for use by about 6,000 Israelis suffering from various illnesses.
 

Crazy Composer

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Oy vay ismir! Don't let that shit get into the real cannabis gene pool! That's called hemp!
 
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OrganicOzarks

There was some brown shit around here that we thought was 2 or 3 year old outdoor Cali, but it must have been from Israel because it did not get you high either. :)
 

Hydro-Soil

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Scientists develop burger without the bun!

Consumers say "It's JUST LIKE a burger...but without the bun taste!"


Actually... it's more like "Scientists remove part of the medicinal value of cannabis and call it good!"


Stay Safe! :blowbubbles:
 

paper_clip

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when will they learn :drum:

I don't think this will catch on anyways, I mean we all know they do a lot of stuff behind the scenes so who knows but I don't think anyone with half a brain who actually cares about the movement for Cannabis into a positive direction would purposely start bringing any genetics to the scene that smells, tastes, and looks like bud with great medicinal benefits, sold as medicine, but has no buzz what so ever, that could quite possibly be the most stupidest thing I've ever heard of in my entire life.
 

LAMBS-BREAD

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instead of growing shitty herb, they could use that money to give food to the poor people of Gaza, instead of bombs....
 

huligun

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All they had to do was go to Nebraska. That stuff grows along side the road... Nebraska No-High
 

guineapig

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"the numbing sensation" what does this refer to?

(Insert clip of U2 video for "numb")

I thought The Numbing Sensation was a band from the 1980s

Didn't they used to tour with The Psychedelic Furs? :abduct:

In all seriousness, I recall reading articles about how the University of Mississippi had
synthesized every single one of the cannabinoids that had the potential to cross the
blood-brain barrier. I believe there were 80 or 90 of them? I will try to find this article,
but the point is that scientists should be allowed to study the effects of pure CBD in
animal models, humans being the eventual beneficiary.

It is interesting that the Israelis developed a CBD plant.

:ying: kind regards from guineapig :ying:
 

huligun

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I see the band wagon that a lot of respected breeders is jumping on is the CBD.. What a buzz kill. Nothing I hate worse than smoking weed that don't get me high.
 
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Hoover_lungz

The Vietnamese have beaten them to making weed that dont get you high, come to uk we got plenty of dead beat weed lol
 
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