it makes me sick thinking that a billion dollar industry that has been fucking us over with their shit GMO food and chemicals think they can try to fuck with the organic home growers are fucking wrong
you are conceding a faulty premise.
the bill posted in the OP has NOTHING to do with cannabis, nor home growers of cannabis.
it also has NOTHING to do with monsanto
it has NOTHING to do with any evidence of the danger of GMO's
it has nothing to do with the specious and foolish argument that GMO's are unhealthy.
the OP's bill simply declares all GMO's in california to be illegal and gives them 30 days to GTFO.
the premise you have accepted is that GMO's as a class can be described as unhealthy,, dangerous to the eater, dangerous to the environment, dangerous to native plants and animals, etc etc etc.
none of that is true, none of that is supported by science, none of that is even plausible.
the proponents on the "Yes" side have created one giant strawman, and have taken turns gleefully whacking at it with sticks. it is a testament to their own ineffectiveness that they have still been unable to defeat their own shoddily constructed scarecrow.
at question in almost every post in this thread is the premise that GMO's require MORE chemicals to grow, and that they somehow become toxic as a result. this is untrue.
"roundup ready" crops are modified with a gene from another plant, this modification makes the crop plant largely immune to glyphosate, meaning you can use this herbicide to kill weeds. this does not mean you MUST use glypohosate, only that you can. glyphosate is a short lived chemical which is laregly harmless to humans animals and insects, much like DDT which was only toxic to bugs. those in the know are well aware of the fact that DDT was bbanned based on the book "Silent Spring", which was a tissue of lies. the banning of DDT resulted in massive upswwings of malaria in the third world, and a huge resurgence of the tsetse fly (carrier of african sleeping sickness) based on the claim in "Silent Spring" that DDT was weakening the shells of birds eggs.
as a result of the flawed assumption that DDT was to blame, it took another ten years for REAL SCIENCE to reveal that it was mercury contamination of water supplies which was causing the problem, NOT DDT. thus mecury pollution got a ten year free ride while the politicians were screaming about DDT. thats environmentalism for you, selling a scary story to the press and watching the hoi polloi panic so they can get what they want.
banning GMO's is very much the same as banning DDT, it's based on lies, deception,, panic in the media, panic in the masses, and a few grandstanding populist politicians demagoguing an issue whith no foundation in reality. but once the deal is done,, and the ban is in place, getting rid of it takes forever. third world nations are crying out for DDT to eradicate mosquitoes, tsetse flies, bloatflies, locusts, chiggers, and many other pests which bring disease, starvation and ruin on developing nations. several african countries have already begun manufacturing DDT for themselves, despite a global ban on the stuff since the 1970's.
the only evidence brought up in any of the "Yes" crowd's massive link dumps (which i read in their entirety,, thanks insomnia) was a study which demonstrated a link to BT corn and some toxic reactions in rats.
it is important to note that BT crops are NOT glyphosate resitant, they are an entirely different class of GMO, which uses the implantation of a genetic strand from another plant to cause the crop to produce a NATURAL insect toxin that kills budworms, boll weevils, and other plant pests using the same toxic mechanism that other plants use to deter those same pests.
even this study was merely preliminary, and the toxic reactions were within the margins of safety. there were no cancers in the rats, no deaths from toxicity, and no diseases apparent. the only way they discovered the toxicity was in the necropsy of the subjects. and this toxicity was found in rats fed a diet of 33% BT corn.
your statement goes beyond even the most rabidly ardent "yes" supporter by assuming the GMO "industry" has fucked you at all, that GMO's are related to "chemicals" and that this same shadowy "indusrty" cabal will be shutting down seedbanks in amsterdam if they dont sell GMO seeds to potheads.
unclench homey, none of the shit claimed in this thread or the media about GMO's is factual. your dope is safe from Monsanto, from the DEA... not so much.