Has Cannabis Been Secretly Genetically Modified to Render it More Dangerous?

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monsanto would have patented any advantageous modification, possibly stepping on a few US patents in the process.

there is an upper limit to what the plant will produce naturally (have no idea what that limit is... ~30%) so until i see %'s above that i must say no, they are not genetically modified.

chimera says selection is responsible, i concur.

 

[DreamOfGreen]

Is it correct to say a plant that’s polyploid is genetically modified when polyploidy is something that will sometimes occur naturally without colchicine treatment?

If a plant that is polyploid gets crossed with one with the usual two sets of chromosomes, will the resulting strain always be polyploid to?

I'm curious to know how much, if any, cannabis that’s around today is the result of any strain that was treated with colchicine.

 

[skullznroses]

tried and tested by stoners with no ulterior motives.

 

[purple_man]

@dream of green: polyploidity induced by colchine is viewed as a modification, but the autopolyploidity not...

some plants can hybridise despite different ploiditites some can't,... but even the ones aborting the seed, can be grown in vitro via embryo rescue protocols

i read several times about the application of colchine in the "standard" weed growing books, but can't remember any company claiming the application of the tech on commercial "drug cultivar" seeds

to me the most fuqed up thing with such sensational journalism is, actual "disinformation" based on lack of understanding on the readers site.

imho theoretically every cultivar is a genetically modified plant, since it shares few physiological, ... resemblance to it's wild type/form

sure you can say skunk#1 is a genetically modified organism, since it has been bred out of stabilized polycrosses... on the other hand, when it comes to genetical modification in the sense of transgenic organisms (GMOs) n biotechnology, those claims hold no value, since the skunk#1 does not contain any foreign genes (neither cis nor transgenes), nor is it a dihaploid, rescued embryo, nor protoplast fusion sibbling, nor mutagenesis induced, ...

hence everyone has to decide what they see as "genetical modification"

blessss

 

[ryanbradly]

If it's been done previously or not, it can be done and will be done. I think a "peoples plant checker" should be opened for all types of plants/ seeds to be checked for transgenic modification, everyone should have the right to know these things as a matter of public service.

 

[Peter Parker]

I've been known to mechanically modify cannabis by separating tricomes from the underlying tissue to render it more dangerous...

Works great.

Huff Po? Isn't that Bat Boys new home?

I laughed WAY too hard at that.

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

@dream of green: polyploidity induced by colchine is viewed as a modification, but the autopolyploidity not...

some plants can hybridise despite different ploiditites some can't,... but even the ones aborting the seed, can be grown in vitro via embryo rescue protocols

i read several times about the application of colchine in the "standard" weed growing books, but can't remember any company claiming the application of the tech on commercial "drug cultivar" seeds

to me the most fuqed up thing with such sensational journalism is, actual "disinformation" based on lack of understanding on the readers site.

imho theoretically every cultivar is a genetically modified plant, since it shares few physiological, ... resemblance to it's wild type/form

sure you can say skunk#1 is a genetically modified organism, since it has been bred out of stabilized polycrosses... on the other hand, when it comes to genetical modification in the sense of transgenic organisms (GMOs) n biotechnology, those claims hold no value, since the skunk#1 does not contain any foreign genes (neither cis nor transgenes), nor is it a dihaploid, rescued embryo, nor protoplast fusion sibbling, nor mutagenesis induced, ...

hence everyone has to decide what they see as "genetical modification"

blessss

Over 70% of all flowering plants on earth have some form of polyploids, it all happened by nature not the hand of man. polyploids are not GMO.
And as you say Skunk #1 is not polyploid or GMO, it does have a non-functional CBD synthase gene in it, but I did not know that until a few years ago when Skunk #1 was DNA sequenced and they told me.

-SamS

 

[stoned-trout]

not what I got anyhow...maybe others gear....yeehaw

 

[MJPassion]

Article in the OP is wack!
They say THC degrades into CBD...
That alone is enough to discredit the article as based on fact.

 

[purple_man]

high fambz!

done know sams... especially, every endocannabinoid "expression" is different, hence the same phenotype of "skunk" is nice to some, and horrific to others...

the quintessential point was: there is NO GMOs in the present "genepool" commecially availible, ...

PERHAPS, there is agrobacteria or, bioballistically transformed "model" varieties existing in labs, same as the transformed e. coli in stuttgart, which was transformed to synthesize thc out of a precussor acid...

BUT, not in the hands of pollenchucks/hacks n so called "breeders" of nowdays

blessss

 

[Weird]

I don't know about weed but I think this is true about children, especially mine.

 

[St. Phatty]

"Huffington Post UK" -

that's the secret right there - they're huffing adhesive fumes off the envelopes at the English post office. Huffing Town Post UK.

Jesus. and Arianna Huffington once conned me into thinking that she was at least part investigative journalist, not just rich ex-wife.

"One problem is the varying concentrations of the bad stuff (THC) with the good (CBD), depending on what you are taking."

Oh they are definitely huffing something. They should switch to huffing airplane glue and toluene, it would kill fewer brain cells than what their writers are consuming now (or in the past).

I think my brain just melted reading that article