Uncle Sam Grows Garbage Weed — Profit From the G
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Posted On: 05/02/2017 3:51:20 PM
Uncle Sam Grows Garbage Weed — Profit From the Good Stuff
Here’s an interesting fact about weed: All marijuana used in government funded research is grown and harvested at the same location at the University of Mississippi.
The grow operation at Ole Miss is partnered with The National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA) — The same institute that states on their website that marijuana leads to “lower life satisfaction, poorer mental health, poorer physical health, more relationship problems.”
So what does NIDA want with a 12 acre plot of marijuana?
The government is interested in exploring methods of growing marijuana with different levels of THC for various medical treatment purposes. All while denouncing it on a federal level.
Earlier this month, something huge happened.
It’s something we’ve been waiting for.
Don’t go buying weed from Uncle Sam…
No, not for the reasons you’d think.
Turns out, his stuff isn’t as good as the pot produced by the private sector.
Currently, cannabis is produced for scientific research by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) — in many states, it’s the only allowed source of marijuana for research, if research is allowed at all.
But according to Bloomberg and a just-published study in Nature, government weed is vastly inferior to what’s being produced legally in many states right now.
“New research finds that government-produced cannabis offers fewer variations and a lower concentration of cannabinoids than marijuana sold by dispensaries in states where the drug is legal,” says the Bloomberg story.
The not-so-surprising news comes from a study of nearly 3,000 samples performed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Sleep Hill Labs Inc.
“Federal pot has been criticized in the past for not looking or smelling like cannabis both by researchers and professional critics.”
Both government-produced weed and illegal cannabis were inferior in THC content to state-legal marijuana strains sold by dispensaries. That’s an important validation that the trend we’re seeing in the legal pot space is contributing to real advances in the science behind the plant.
As more potent state-legal pot hits laboratories, expect to see breakthroughs in marijuana continue to ramp higher — and, along with them, opportunities in pot stocks.
Here’s an interesting fact about weed: All marijuana used in government funded research is grown and harvested at the same location at the University of Mississippi.
The grow operation at Ole Miss is partnered with The National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA) — The same institute that states on their website that marijuana leads to “lower life satisfaction, poorer mental health, poorer physical health, more relationship problems.”
So what does NIDA want with a 12 acre plot of marijuana?
The government is interested in exploring methods of growing marijuana with different levels of THC for various medical treatment purposes. All while denouncing it on a federal level.
Earlier this month, something huge happened.
It’s something we’ve been waiting for.
Don’t go buying weed from Uncle Sam…
No, not for the reasons you’d think.
Turns out, his stuff isn’t as good as the pot produced by the private sector.
Currently, cannabis is produced for scientific research by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) — in many states, it’s the only allowed source of marijuana for research, if research is allowed at all.
But according to Bloomberg and a just-published study in Nature, government weed is vastly inferior to what’s being produced legally in many states right now.
“New research finds that government-produced cannabis offers fewer variations and a lower concentration of cannabinoids than marijuana sold by dispensaries in states where the drug is legal,” says the Bloomberg story.
The not-so-surprising news comes from a study of nearly 3,000 samples performed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Sleep Hill Labs Inc.
“Federal pot has been criticized in the past for not looking or smelling like cannabis both by researchers and professional critics.”
Both government-produced weed and illegal cannabis were inferior in THC content to state-legal marijuana strains sold by dispensaries. That’s an important validation that the trend we’re seeing in the legal pot space is contributing to real advances in the science behind the plant.
As more potent state-legal pot hits laboratories, expect to see breakthroughs in marijuana continue to ramp higher — and, along with them, opportunities in pot stocks.
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