All Strains Are Fake

[Commander Strax]

So a fuji is the same as a red delicious cause last time i ate apples they tasted quite different. Now all fuji don't taste the same but each have a distinct taste that makes me recognize them as a fuji, same as red delicious

So, what you are saying is that the different color and taste of the different piles of apples at the store make them "not all the same". And by saying that you are implying that not all types or "strains" of marijuana are the same.......interesting, very interesting indeed

 

[silasraven]

yeah they are all fake strains and its only one strained named a thousand times. would work, but the fact is indica hash puts me on my ass, i CANT MOVE i force myself to get up, sativa does get me up and happy. plus the fact that none ofthe strains look,smell ,fell and, taste the same,

 

[AlGore]

If you have enough money the technical gulf is nothing and if you think *they* haven't been paying attention, you have not been paying attention.

Sorry, the They I refer to was the dudes from the panel. The *they* you refer to seems to be big pharma?

Either way I don't think you watched the discussion or understood what I was trying to say.

My damned router just ate a long reply to this.
The gist:
different strains have different effects, both subjective (the high) and medicinal (symptoms relieved or exacerbated).
It's an axiom of pharmacology that different effects require different drugs, or a different dose and ratio of shared drugs, to be in action.
So i reject that we're dealing with "the same compounds" here.
The chemists have their work cut out for them. The actives have to be identified and tested singly and in likely ratios of combination.
If a plant acts differently, there is an unidentified active factor there to be unmasked.
And with the bewildering variety of strains ... and the almost infinite number of phenotypes being expressed in these unstabilized hybrid cultivars ... the amount of work to be done in order to only survey the terrain is large. And that is just from the perspective of the chemist, whose job it is to identify and then deliver the pure and compounded actives to the medical research community and ultimately the patients.

Perhaps I use the wrong terminology. I am a computer programmer, not a chemist. The point is, that no matter what you say, or how mystical you try to make it. If you throw 7000 strains at some scientific test, you are going to find out that they are all contain the same stuff. Its the different combinations that give us the different effects. And to my point above, it's these guerrilla guys working outside of federal laws, that will lead the forefront for legitimate research into putting together the "perfect drug" for the individual cannabis user, be it medicinal or recreational.

 

[curious2garden]

......snip.........
Perhaps I use the wrong terminology. I am a computer programmer, not a chemist. The point is, that no matter what you say, or how mystical you try to make it. If you throw 7000 strains at some scientific test, you are going to find out that they are all contain the same stuff. Its the different combinations that give us the different effects. And to my point above, it's these guerrilla guys working outside of federal laws, that will lead the forefront for legitimate research into putting together the "perfect drug" for the individual cannabis user, be it medicinal or recreational.

I'm a software engineer, let's see if I can explain it in your language. All the code you write in whatever language you write in contains the SAME keywords but it's the combinations and permutations of those words that make the programs run differently, easy peasy.

 

[chewberto]

I think Jeffrey Raber is a bitch!

 

[curious2garden]

I think Jeffrey Raber is a bitch!

Why? (more characters because obviously RIU wants VERBOSITY! and YEAH I'M GOOD WITH THAT!)

 

[lahadaextranjera]

I can confirm that clubs will pass of weed with other names. Partly by accident however. For example, I have been called in to look at SoMango which the boss believes could be a critical x or channel +. Why? Because commercial strains that are fast and heavy like critical can go for less money and slower more sativa based strains sell for more. Therefore a grower may try to palm it off as a higher strain. I've sold a weed to a club before and they put their house name before it!! As if it was theirs!


I haven't read the link but the common denominating properties of all marijuana is CBD and THC.?? Strains differ greatly. That's why they breed them.

 

[racerboy71]

I'm a software engineer, let's see if I can explain it in your language. All the code you write in whatever language you write in contains the SAME keywords but it's the combinations and permutations of those words that make the programs run differently, easy peasy.

Lemon squeezy??