Toxic Flint Water.
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Abiqua
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The MSM-IV states that self diagnosis is dangerous.....
I don't know why you can't come up with math related to your claims...We both agree that Lead is bad, but in what form. I would rather be worried about 100 years of past contamination from GM and....now the water too....
Abiqua
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Tell me what lab tests, please?
and state the protocol for each test listed?
thats all I have ever asked for......
Yodaweed
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just google heavy metal testing for cannabis, you will find pleanty of labs that test for it, I know at least 2 in Colorado that test for heavy metals, steep hill's and cannlabs both test for it, most use inductively coupled plasma to test the heavy metals.
WeeblesWobbles
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I can't find anything that directly addresses lead and cannabis. Not saying it's not out there, just nothing pops up in a casual search.
What I've read says heavy metal uptake is greatly influenced by the pH at the root, relative concentrations of the lead to other metals, temperature, yadda yadda.
There are tons of articles on phytoremediation of toxic locales where plants are grown to take up the cadmium, lead, etc. and then the plants are harvested and processed to bind the toxic metals to something safe to dump or reprocess.
It's safe to say plants take up lead. How badly your plants are contaminated is unknowable without assay. Inhaling lead in smoke seems bad juju.
You're going to have to decide the risk for yourself; I don't think you're going to get an answer. I do think it would be totally unethical to sell. Sucks, I know.
You could probably find someone in Ann Arbor who'd perform an assay for you. It would be a pretty interesting research topic for the right person.
What I've read says heavy metal uptake is greatly influenced by the pH at the root, relative concentrations of the lead to other metals, temperature, yadda yadda.
There are tons of articles on phytoremediation of toxic locales where plants are grown to take up the cadmium, lead, etc. and then the plants are harvested and processed to bind the toxic metals to something safe to dump or reprocess.
It's safe to say plants take up lead. How badly your plants are contaminated is unknowable without assay. Inhaling lead in smoke seems bad juju.
You're going to have to decide the risk for yourself; I don't think you're going to get an answer. I do think it would be totally unethical to sell. Sucks, I know.
You could probably find someone in Ann Arbor who'd perform an assay for you. It would be a pretty interesting research topic for the right person.
WeeblesWobbles
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Cool. Thanks for this.
frica
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Are you trying to say what doesn't kill you can't be harmful?Find someone growing in flint for the lsat 25 years, are they alive
Any amount of lead harms you, it also doesn't get filtered out from your body since it confuses it with calcium.
Crops grown with lead contaminated water is unsafe by default.
WeeblesWobbles
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Here you go, Yoda's cracked it for you. Do a google on heavy metal testing, inductively coupled plasma, and University of Michigan. There have to be research papers out there from UM, it's one of the preeminent schools in the world. If not there, maybe a univ closer to home. Find a name and contact them. Say you're trying to avert a potential public health crisis (because you probably are). Ask them to perform an assay for you.
This may be a topic near and dear to them, a lot of academics smoke.
WeeblesWobbles
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That said, frica is right. You can't sell it and I'd hate to see you use it yourself.
Indagrow
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If you're retarded and consume lead it makes you normal.
Can we get back on topic of this and have @PicklesRus amuse us more?
captainmorgan
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Read something yesterday about 2 other towns in other states having worse water problems than Flint,stories probably planted in the news to distract from laying the blame were it belongs in the Flint crisis,Snyder.
BST
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Lead is not very soluble into plants....even then it would need to discovered if it is chelated/broken down/ passed thru the organism whole, to see if it comes out in smokable form...
Lead dust accumulation on foliage is extremely toxic. Whether that is an issue here, [could be with evapotranspiration....
Lastly, another thing seldom talked about is lead background especially in Flint....lead theoretically accumulates around highways and the closer to downtowns of major urban areas than farther out....and how long was GM open? and now it is a problem? Flint didn't just get fucked yesterday.......what is the background noise of Lead already? Ill bet it was thru the roof for the last 50 years....
Find someone growing in flint for the lsat 25 years, are they alive