So as of now, what strains are for surely the highest available in seed form? Need a list of possible strains to treat Crohn's. Thanks!!
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J
Just a nice guy
Two plants strains relatively rich in cannabidiol (CBD) have been identified by an analytic test lab recently established to serve the medical cannabis industry in California. That's two major stories in one sentence. Let's take it from the bottom…
In December a lab in the East Bay started testing samples of cannabis for pathogenic mold and the presence of three cannabinoids –THC, CBD and CBN (cannabinol). THC is the main psychoactive compound in the cannabis plant. CBD is a cannabinoid with intriguing medical potential that gets bred out of cannabis when the breeder's goal is high THC content (as it has been in California for generations). CBN is a breakdown product of THC, an indicator of time in storage.
The lab has been testing about 10 samples a day provided by Oakland's Harborside Health Center, whose proprietor, Steve DeAngelo, helped plan and underwrite the venture. Results from the lab are posted on labels affixed to the strains in Harborside's display cases. Thus prospective buyers are informed that the sparkly nuggets of Raspberry Kush they are savoring in a Petri dish are free of dangerous aspergillus and contain 14.3% THC by weight. (Percent CBD and CBN almost always round off to zero. That's about to change.)
DeAngelo's primary goal is to impose safety standards industry-wide. "We're giving the analytic laboratory project a beta rollout," he says, "to find the problems and eliminate them before seriously soliciting participation from other dispensaries. Then we'll see who's serious about the medical paradigm."
Running the lab are two 30-something entrepreneurs, D.L. and A.D, who spent about a year setting it up and refining their procedures under the tutelage of a sympathetic university-connected chemist. D.L. operates the gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer. A.L. is liaison to the dispensaries. They are planning to add tests for pesticides and certain terpenes –aromatic compounds that contribute to the effects of cannabis.
The advent of a test lab will change the medical cannabis industry in significant ways. For some growers and distributors thriving under the status quo, the documented presence of toxins in their products will force adjustments. The lab has found levels of mold and e coli that bear witness to unsanitary production methods. Deangelo says, "It can't be the whole family and friends sitting around with all the dogs in the living room. We're putting out the message: 'Clean up your trim areas, clean up your storage areas, do not have cannabis curing in an area that's exposed to animals. Set up a clean room and put on different clothes when you go in. Wear gloves. Wash your hands. In other words, remember that your product is medicine and treat it as medicine.'"
Harborside's savvy purchasing agent, Rick Pfrommer, notes that input from the lab has already led to growers cleaning up their acts. "Most of the people who have had mold in their cannabis are the people who didn’t have filters on their air intake. They may have had beautiful medicine, but they were pulling in whatever from the air. Now they've got filters."
When the lab begins testing for pesticides, indoor growers who have been using chemicals to kill mites and other pests will have to find organic alternatives or else peddle their wares to dispensaries that don't adopt safety standards. Expect some to argue that a little residual Avid on their cannabis buds isn't going to hurt anyone.
Eureka! (No, Laytonville!)
CBD predominates over THC in cannabis that grows wild (ditchweed) and plants grown for fiber (hemp). When plants are bred for psychoactivity CBD is replaced by THC because the same gene codes for one or the other cannabinoid. According to research done in Europe and Israel, CBD has anti-inflammatory, anti-convulsant, anti-psychotic, anti-oxidant, and neuroprotective properties. It also has a direct inhibitory effect on certain cancer cells.
Biologists at California Pacific Medical Center, Sean McAllister and Pierre Desprez, have determined that CBD inhibits breast cancer metastasis by suppressing a gene called Id-1. This winter they started working with mouse models of breast cancer, and if all goes well, they will be conducting clinical trial at CPMC in less than two years.
A British company, GW Pharmaceuticals, has developed a high-CBD strain that it mixes with a high-THC strain to make Sativex, a plant extract formulated for spraying under the tongue that has been approved in Canada and elsewhere to treat neuropathic pain. CBD evidently bolsters the pain-killing effects of THC while moderating its psychoactivity. In various studies, patients with severe pain have reported getting significantly more relief from Sativex, the mixture, than from GW's high-THC extract.
With a few notable exceptions the California cannabis samples tested to date have contained only trace amounts of CBD. The first notable exception exception occurred in late February when D.L. saw a spike on a computer-generated graph indicating a high level of CBD in one of the samples provided by Harborside. After some additional testing he confirmed that this strain, produced indoors in San Francisco, contained 4.2% CBD (and 8.9% THC) by weight.
DeAngelo promptly made arrangements with the grower to rev up production. Buds and clones from the strain of interest should be available at Harborside within months. "It would be immoral to try to hoard the genetic material," says Deangelo. As this story goes off to CounterPunch March 12, a second high-CBD strain has been identified, grown outdoors in Mendocino County. It is a little more than five percent CBD by weight.
Thus the medical marijuana movement/industry is entering a new stage. Growers will develop strains with higher CBD to THC ratios. Pro-cannabis doctors, who have long awaited high-CBD strains, are already planning rudimentary clinical trials to determine whether and in what ways high-CBD cannabis is beneficial.
Because CBD counters the anxiety induced by THC, a high-CBD strain might prove palatable to many people who dislike the way marijuana makes them feel. High-CBD strains might also enable patients who need megadoses to ingest them while remaining functional. According to Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD, "Patients with certain cancers, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's Disease, seizure disorders... they all need to maintain a higher blood level of cannabinoids than is convenient with our high-THC strains. For them, development of a high-CBD strain could be a life or death matter."
Whatever the outcome of clinical trials involving CBD, the effort alone -the attempt to produce and evaluate less psychoactive strains of marijuans- will refute the image of stoners paying lip-service to medical use that has tarnished the industry. And if and when the effectiveness of high-CBD cannabis in treating, say, rheumatoid arthritis, can be established, a wave of older Californians will be asking their doctors if cannabis is right for them.
In December a lab in the East Bay started testing samples of cannabis for pathogenic mold and the presence of three cannabinoids –THC, CBD and CBN (cannabinol). THC is the main psychoactive compound in the cannabis plant. CBD is a cannabinoid with intriguing medical potential that gets bred out of cannabis when the breeder's goal is high THC content (as it has been in California for generations). CBN is a breakdown product of THC, an indicator of time in storage.
The lab has been testing about 10 samples a day provided by Oakland's Harborside Health Center, whose proprietor, Steve DeAngelo, helped plan and underwrite the venture. Results from the lab are posted on labels affixed to the strains in Harborside's display cases. Thus prospective buyers are informed that the sparkly nuggets of Raspberry Kush they are savoring in a Petri dish are free of dangerous aspergillus and contain 14.3% THC by weight. (Percent CBD and CBN almost always round off to zero. That's about to change.)
DeAngelo's primary goal is to impose safety standards industry-wide. "We're giving the analytic laboratory project a beta rollout," he says, "to find the problems and eliminate them before seriously soliciting participation from other dispensaries. Then we'll see who's serious about the medical paradigm."
Running the lab are two 30-something entrepreneurs, D.L. and A.D, who spent about a year setting it up and refining their procedures under the tutelage of a sympathetic university-connected chemist. D.L. operates the gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer. A.L. is liaison to the dispensaries. They are planning to add tests for pesticides and certain terpenes –aromatic compounds that contribute to the effects of cannabis.
The advent of a test lab will change the medical cannabis industry in significant ways. For some growers and distributors thriving under the status quo, the documented presence of toxins in their products will force adjustments. The lab has found levels of mold and e coli that bear witness to unsanitary production methods. Deangelo says, "It can't be the whole family and friends sitting around with all the dogs in the living room. We're putting out the message: 'Clean up your trim areas, clean up your storage areas, do not have cannabis curing in an area that's exposed to animals. Set up a clean room and put on different clothes when you go in. Wear gloves. Wash your hands. In other words, remember that your product is medicine and treat it as medicine.'"
Harborside's savvy purchasing agent, Rick Pfrommer, notes that input from the lab has already led to growers cleaning up their acts. "Most of the people who have had mold in their cannabis are the people who didn’t have filters on their air intake. They may have had beautiful medicine, but they were pulling in whatever from the air. Now they've got filters."
When the lab begins testing for pesticides, indoor growers who have been using chemicals to kill mites and other pests will have to find organic alternatives or else peddle their wares to dispensaries that don't adopt safety standards. Expect some to argue that a little residual Avid on their cannabis buds isn't going to hurt anyone.
Eureka! (No, Laytonville!)
CBD predominates over THC in cannabis that grows wild (ditchweed) and plants grown for fiber (hemp). When plants are bred for psychoactivity CBD is replaced by THC because the same gene codes for one or the other cannabinoid. According to research done in Europe and Israel, CBD has anti-inflammatory, anti-convulsant, anti-psychotic, anti-oxidant, and neuroprotective properties. It also has a direct inhibitory effect on certain cancer cells.
Biologists at California Pacific Medical Center, Sean McAllister and Pierre Desprez, have determined that CBD inhibits breast cancer metastasis by suppressing a gene called Id-1. This winter they started working with mouse models of breast cancer, and if all goes well, they will be conducting clinical trial at CPMC in less than two years.
A British company, GW Pharmaceuticals, has developed a high-CBD strain that it mixes with a high-THC strain to make Sativex, a plant extract formulated for spraying under the tongue that has been approved in Canada and elsewhere to treat neuropathic pain. CBD evidently bolsters the pain-killing effects of THC while moderating its psychoactivity. In various studies, patients with severe pain have reported getting significantly more relief from Sativex, the mixture, than from GW's high-THC extract.
With a few notable exceptions the California cannabis samples tested to date have contained only trace amounts of CBD. The first notable exception exception occurred in late February when D.L. saw a spike on a computer-generated graph indicating a high level of CBD in one of the samples provided by Harborside. After some additional testing he confirmed that this strain, produced indoors in San Francisco, contained 4.2% CBD (and 8.9% THC) by weight.
DeAngelo promptly made arrangements with the grower to rev up production. Buds and clones from the strain of interest should be available at Harborside within months. "It would be immoral to try to hoard the genetic material," says Deangelo. As this story goes off to CounterPunch March 12, a second high-CBD strain has been identified, grown outdoors in Mendocino County. It is a little more than five percent CBD by weight.
Thus the medical marijuana movement/industry is entering a new stage. Growers will develop strains with higher CBD to THC ratios. Pro-cannabis doctors, who have long awaited high-CBD strains, are already planning rudimentary clinical trials to determine whether and in what ways high-CBD cannabis is beneficial.
Because CBD counters the anxiety induced by THC, a high-CBD strain might prove palatable to many people who dislike the way marijuana makes them feel. High-CBD strains might also enable patients who need megadoses to ingest them while remaining functional. According to Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD, "Patients with certain cancers, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's Disease, seizure disorders... they all need to maintain a higher blood level of cannabinoids than is convenient with our high-THC strains. For them, development of a high-CBD strain could be a life or death matter."
Whatever the outcome of clinical trials involving CBD, the effort alone -the attempt to produce and evaluate less psychoactive strains of marijuans- will refute the image of stoners paying lip-service to medical use that has tarnished the industry. And if and when the effectiveness of high-CBD cannabis in treating, say, rheumatoid arthritis, can be established, a wave of older Californians will be asking their doctors if cannabis is right for them.
J
Just a nice guy
Hope that helps!
I have a patient with Crohn's who sent me that article.. I know some people involved with the lab, so ive been asking... so far sounds legit... more info if i can get it.
Good luck to all the med patients world wide!
I have a patient with Crohn's who sent me that article.. I know some people involved with the lab, so ive been asking... so far sounds legit... more info if i can get it.
Good luck to all the med patients world wide!
E
elmanito
If you have a variety which has the Bt/Bd allele and you use e.g. basalt meal and other lava stuff which contain a lot of minerals and put it in your soil.The plants will produce higher amounts of THC.According to David W. Pate, one of the researchers of Hortapharm, is that under the influence of some minerals like iron and magnesium you can increase the THC-content.Enzymes are responsible for the conversion of CBG into THC and enzymes needs specific minerals like the enzymes in our own body.
Namaste
I'd be surprised if K negatively impacts THC production
since all hydro nutrients have lots of K and coco coir is loaded with K
and the THC of strains grown today can be in the 20+% range.
Big ??? on that finding.
HashMonkey1982
Member
I'm currently growing some Mazar i sharif from seeds imported from Mazar i sharif in Afghanistan. Out of ten seedlings i got 9 females 
One nice wide leafed male also to produce some seed. I will be searching for a high CBD chemotype among those 9 females to treat my chronic inflammatory bowel condition and anxiety and insomnia problems that i suffer. I am going to try and isolate a high CBD chemotype and make it pure breeding. These plants have amazing aromas and are showing some very nice colouration in the cool winter weather that we have now (southern hemisphere). Can't wait to try them.
One nice wide leafed male also to produce some seed. I will be searching for a high CBD chemotype among those 9 females to treat my chronic inflammatory bowel condition and anxiety and insomnia problems that i suffer. I am going to try and isolate a high CBD chemotype and make it pure breeding. These plants have amazing aromas and are showing some very nice colouration in the cool winter weather that we have now (southern hemisphere). Can't wait to try them.
Afgan kush
Afgan kush
Afgan Kush from wos it,s a really medical strain with high CBN and it,s give a really bodystone.Good too make ice on gives lots of trics.Also a high CBD
Pakistan Valley it,s nearly the same can just say--try it
Have a nice smoke and so on every one
Afgan kush
Afgan Kush from wos it,s a really medical strain with high CBN and it,s give a really bodystone.Good too make ice on gives lots of trics.Also a high CBD
Pakistan Valley it,s nearly the same can just say--try it
Have a nice smoke and so on every one
Bump!
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For A.D of Oregon, who needs this information!
Granny
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For A.D of Oregon, who needs this information!
Granny
any name for the 2 strains found in cali? harborside said they wouldn't hoard the genetics so where are all the cuts and seeds. patients need it now. i do really admire the work they do(10years ahead of us), here's a video http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/7/welcome-to-harborside-health-center-802860.html
as stated "life or death matter"
as stated "life or death matter"
BodhiSativa
New member
If my memory serves me right one strain tested at HHC thats very high in cbd was called Ganja Mon. Not sure on exact name but if DJ Short is around, he was there when it was discussed. Maybe he remembers the name better. Cant find any info on it.
E
elmanito
Several strains are available which a possible high CBD-content
This strain from Brazil with genetics from Santa Marta, 75% indica & 25% sativa
Strain from Yunnan which could be high in CBD according to Sam Skunkman
Parvati
This is a strain from Turkey.Most of the time these strains have a CBD-content of 4-5% or perhaps higher.
Namaste
This strain from Brazil with genetics from Santa Marta, 75% indica & 25% sativa
Strain from Yunnan which could be high in CBD according to Sam Skunkman
Parvati
This is a strain from Turkey.Most of the time these strains have a CBD-content of 4-5% or perhaps higher.
Namaste
HashMonkey1982
Member
I sure hope someone can find and isolate and stabilise a reliable high CBD yielding line with a little THC in there as well. Considering all the benefits that CBD has for smokers like myself. I will be hunting for such a plant myself.
OrganicMeds
Member
Hindu Kush x BlueBerry Maui most people didnt finish their cones, and some people even almost vomited and passed out, so i imagine we could be seeing a high THCV pheno there, maybe.
LazyGringo
Member
CBD strains?
CBD strains?
Does anyone know of any commercially available strains that are high in CBD? (or at least have more CBD than usual). I ask because I've only been able to find one seedbank that specifically lists high CBD strains (World of Seeds) but I don't have any idea of their rep or reliability. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
CBD strains?
Does anyone know of any commercially available strains that are high in CBD? (or at least have more CBD than usual). I ask because I've only been able to find one seedbank that specifically lists high CBD strains (World of Seeds) but I don't have any idea of their rep or reliability. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Forget about Wos. Real seed co may have some strains that contain cbd but it's alot of trouble going thru the different phenotypes and even then you might not be sure. You might wanna look into hemp and make your own cbd strain or just make hash oil from hemp, that's the easiest route. I've been smoking cbd shit since 2005, it's no miracle drug, makes you tired.
love?
Member
Medicine Man (Mr Nice) / White Rhino (Greenhouse) is known for having a bit but according to the GHS website White Rhino only has 0.77% CBD. I think this figure has been changed/updated recently and used to be bigger (the Youtube video says 1.6% for example).
GHS says their Strawberry Haze is 1.29% CBD btw.
GHS says their Strawberry Haze is 1.29% CBD btw.
