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Episode 405: Sticky Icky Business (trailer)

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- We talk about the weed landscape with molecular biologist Ali Bektaş — including the changes in the growers economy, Californias’ biggest crop, and why the weed is so strong now. Withering Green Rush: California Cannabis Breeding at a Crossroads by Ali Bektaş: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/withering-green-rush-california-cannabis-breeding-at-a-crossroads/

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Actually, I think there was pesticides used in the black market for sure and like small farmers, you know, there's like an ideal image that, you know, I like and we like that is like organic sungrown, this, that and the other, but then there's a lot of also black market or you know

0:15.7

medical regime cannabis that was sprayed with like a bunch of stuff that you probably

0:20.1

don't want to inhale. In terms of like a bigger operations economies of

0:26.4

scale coming into cannabis, cannabis is definitely heavily regulated

0:32.0

against pesticides probably more than

0:35.2

other agricultural products because you are you know combusting it and

0:39.7

inhaling it but it's easy to you know find a lab that's going to test your product and give you

0:46.0

like a clean bill of health, this kind of thing. But these big farms, a lot of times they're not

0:52.1

able to produce the quality that people are looking for because

0:56.4

it's hard to do that on a huge scale, especially when there hasn't been the kind of breeding work to produce plants that will be able to deliver, you know, like a fancy photogenic cannabis nug on a huge scale. So a lot of actually what happens in these big

1:15.9

farms is that cannabis is produced for not for flower but for biomass

1:20.9

you know so they'll go in they'll harvest all the plants, there's no trimming or anything

1:26.0

going on, and they'll immediately take it to a facility to extract all of the constituents

1:32.0

of the plant, the canabenoids,

1:34.4

and then they'll put it into gummies, and to vapens, etc.

1:38.0

You know?

1:39.0

So, flower is still an important part of the market has a considerable market share but when you

1:45.6

look at what is on the rise it's definitely these products that come from

1:50.7

concentrates you that's whatpense, come, right?

1:53.7

I vape or eat edibles more than I smoke.

1:57.6

Interesting.

1:59.4

Yeah.

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