Balderson 2yr aged cheddar 500g
Same cheese, same size
Loblaws: $27.49
Walmart: $15.97
I wonder how much money
@foodprofessor
gets from Galen Weston? This is just greed & highway robbery of Canadians
@LoblawsON
&
@ShopprsDrugMart
gauge us all on the daily
Hong Kong, Singapore & Japan are on a different trajectories for
#COVD19
In Canada it is still early enough to
#FlattenTheCurve
, but we need to pull together & minimize unnecessary personal contact. Just
#StayHome
#StayHomeCanada
A 16 year journey from 400/20 & 300/20 eyesight to 20/20
2 cornea transplants, 2 cataract lens replacements, 68 stitches
Lizard eyes be damned, I can finally see the details of daily living
Special thanks to the
#organ
donors & their families
#OrganDonation
If you have been in Cannabis for less than 5 years & call yourself an expert, please kiss my ass
I’ve been working with Cannabis for 30+ years & still consider myself a student of the plant
@idiomorfos
@fs0c131y
Clearly you con't read:
- Refusal to communicate, at the request of the authorised authorities, the information or documents necessary for the realisation and exploitation of interceptions authorised by law
If Bruce Linton & Terry Booth were such a visionaries, why are their acquisitions & projects now being mothballed?
I'm sick of hearing "it takes a certain kind of CEO to build a business than it does to run successfully"
They did it wrong & cost investors BILLIONS
Get over it
Cannabis 2.0
Please don’t support companies selling ‘single use’ vape pens
Their environmental impact is worse than that of their packaging
Multi use batteries with replaceable carts are a much better option
@donfazool
@_deepakanand
Type I- THC Predominant - Sour D, OG Kush, most Dispensary / BM Cannabis
Type II - Mixed THC / CBD - Cannatonic
Type III - CBD Predominant - Hemp, ACDC, Carlotte's Web
Type IV - CBG Predominant - Super Rare - var Ottavia
Type V- Cannabinoid-Null - Super Rare - zero cannabinoids
Worst news possible today
This morning we lost our good friend
@GoBlueCdn
as a result of complications from his recent hip surgery
Craig was a beautiful, kind human who helped many Canadian investors through his work with
@thecannalysts
He was my friend & I’ll miss him dearly😢
If your company grows cannabis & you think home growers are a threat to your business, GROW BETTER WEED
You’re a professional - be better than hobbyists. Restaurant owners, brewery owners, commercial farmers all make a living even with small scale self-producers making their own
I don't know why everyone wants to turn Cannabis into a competition
Once you hit a certain level of quality, it's all personal preference. There is no single jar on the top shelf.
Celebrate the diversity of the plant, don't try to line your walls with medals
#KingsOfCannabis
This morning I massaged a beautiful lavender oil into Mom's skin- her legs, arms, hands & feet. I massaged her shoulders
I told her I loved her & was there with her & made sure the nurses were up to date on her pain & anxiety meds
She crossed over shortly after I left her side❤️
Seriously contemplating leaving the cannabis industry after 30 years of intense study, discovery, innovation & educating, I can't make ends meet
What have I learned- when people get what they want from you, you are useless to them. The occasional 'thanks' doesn't pay the bills
If anyone is having a feeling low mental health day during all this, reach out
Let's have a chat & a laugh, or a chat & a cry
We can talk cannabis, your garden, family, cooking... whatever
I've cleared my schedule for the next month so I can make time for any of you
#CannaFam
I hear so many people talk about the legal cannabis industry with such disdain, but as I take more & more meetings with new folks, the truth is there are a lot of really nice, well intentioned & good people working in the Cannabis space.
Give yourselves a pat on the back
Everyday I’m going to try & Tweet about someone you all may not know, as a way to recognize great people in the industry. There’s so many hardworking people, the least i can do it try to shine some light
#Follow
I have to hand it to
@CalyxTrichomes
First they refuse to stock an LP with a former police Captain who demonized cannabis & cannabis users & compared cannabis to murder
Now they drop Delta-9 for mistreatment of one of Canada's most informative reviewers
This is community 👍
A very close friend’s Brother died over the holidays
Apparently he’d eaten an unregulated strong edible & started to panick when it kicked in
He went into heart distress & passed away at his sister’s house, w/ 5 kids present
Edibles are going to be an image problem for industry
Investment driven cannabis companies have set Canadian legalization back 10 years.
Small, community based, consumer focused cannabis companies will own the future.
A distributed production model maintains high quality & distributes the wealth amongst many.
The true win-win
Mom has eye surgery tomorrow, make it or break it
If it goes well, she'll have some level of eyesight
If it goes poorly, she'll be completely blind
Please send good vibes 🙏
When you peel back an orange, that initial citrus note is Limonene
Despite the name, budtenders, limonene does not smell like lemons! Stop telling customers
Lemon Skunk isn’t high in limonene- it’s terpinolene dominant
Limonene & Terpinolene are almost never present together
Of all the changes the 🇨🇦cannabis industry needs to survive, & we now get to buy 17 liters of beverages
People are losing their livelihoods, but can now buy 17 liters of products very few want
Progress is great but we need more than this- we need excise & distribution reform!
Why is “strain” the wrong word to describe a biological type?
I made a simple flow chart to help people understand the differences between the words Cultivar, Variety & (ugh) ‘strain’
@amazing_physics
The vortex creates a spin-state, which creates a "tube of air" in the "eye" that allow the pressure to equalize between the inside & outside of the vessel, permitting the liquid to flow. The non-spin state creates a glug-glug- that resistance slows flow of H2O out of the vessel
If someone claims their cannabis oil is broad spectrum or full spectrum, ask for a lab report characterizing the complete list of constituents of both the source material & the extracted oil
If they can’t produce those, they’re just using those words as marketing terms
If
This is incredible 👇
Rain has never been recorded in history here, but when the rains did finally come, the seeds were still alive & ready to bloom
#SeedsFTW
I don’t want Snoop Weed, Kalifa weed, Willy Nelson Weed or Cheech Weed
I want
#Cannabis
grown & bred by talented curators with passion & skill
#F
#Off
with your brandy gimmicks; it’s what’s inside that counts
Heartfelt thoughts to all legal cannabis folks who’s job security has been impacted by the sector downturn
Also heartfelt thoughts & sympathy to all the old school growers, wholesalers, bud tenders & hook ups impacted by legalization
Quit fighting, there’s enough for everyone
Still lots of cannabis users not coming out of the proverbial closet
Most of the home grows we see post on Twitter are anonymous accounts
I propose 2 new hashtags we really need to see trending to send the stigma
I’m proud to say both:
#IUseCannabis
#IGrowCannabis
I don’t think my mental health has ever been worse
I haven’t slept in months
I’m trying to be a better person & this place doesn’t help
So I’m going try to step back & find some joy in life again, been too long without it & Im not gonna make it if I don't
Thanks to the good ones
Canadian firm Medicago, has created a vaccine for
#COVID19
The vaccine is 'raised' in genetically modified plants, then extracted & purified
Zmapp, an Ebola treatment, was also produced in plants, tobacco specifically
GMO: "How you like me now?"
Having studied & worked with Cannabis for well over 25 years, I can't tell you how annoying it is to see people spreading misinformation as fact
We have business plan writers authoring articles on the medical aspects of terpenes, media reporters publishing w/o fact checking 1/n
Heard yet another story from a prominent cannabis community member being squeezed out & left unpaid by the rich investors who brought her on board to run the ship
The community supports our own; if you become known as a corporate abuser, we will bring your brand to it's knees
After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time
But there was no island
There were only scissors, weed & dabs
Most LPs acquire cuttings from amateurs - I’ve been breeding cannabis for over30 years
It’s not just chemical profile that matters, I selected for post-harvest traits & processing - this girl will save 60% on trim costs compared to the average market cultivar
#FireInFireOut
🔥
Cannabis cups are dumb, always have been
The best entered weed rarely “wins”, the very finest flower is never entered
There is no “best” - there IS top shelf, but the differences are personal & subjective
The gathering with friends is where the memories lay- not the awards
Imagine we legalized restaurants
An industry built on permits & real estate, promises to build out 'the world's most sophisticated' kitchens
We have built an industry without chefs, without recipes
All that exists is McDonalds & stock plays
#PoorCannabis
Stop using synthetic cannabinoids!
They are not cannabis, are not molecularly similar to plant derived phytocannabinoids, & are not safe or intended for human consumption!
Please stop calling it synthetic marijuana - nothing could be further from the truth
I arrange intimate (& sometimes group) sexual liaisons between plants, then I monitor the progeny & ruthlessly kill the majority of them while choosing which ones will get to have sex & parent the next generation
#PotPimp
Greenhouse weed can’t compare with indoor, they say
Zero supplemental light, just the BC sun- granted it’s been a pretty awesome year for growing, aside from the heat dome in late July
Slight overfert about 3 weeks ago caused the burnt tips on the subtending leaflets 😒
Had a lab terpene testing protocol from one of Canada’s most used labs come across my desk today
They have an allowable 30% margin of error in terpene measurements, so any terp report could well be inflated by 30% !!!
Take reported terpene results with a grain of salt
Cannabis used to be a distributed production system that put food on the table for thousands of Canadian families
Corporatized production of cannabis lowered the quality & put the money in the hands of the elite
Bankers got richer & everyday 🇨🇦 retail investors lost millions
LP: We hear you have a THCV strain & like to offer you $1000 for it
Me: 😂
LP: What are the chances of us getting just a few seeds of it?
Me: Zero
Do they really think I have carefully collected these things for 25 years but don’t understand their value?
#NotAboutTheMoney
I took care of my mom for the last two years. After she went completely blind; I made her every meal, I put her to bed every night, I walked her downstairs every morning, brought her to appointments.
Its hard- near impossible - to lose those you care for so closely
I miss her
‘Endo-genius cannabinoid system’
Uhm... endogenous?
Presenter who doesn’t know how to pronounce the receptor system they are teaching the crowd about at
#Lift2018
There’s a lot of really great & smart people in this industry
There’s also a ton of fakes
#SaveUsFromTheExperts
ATTN: Growers
Our network needs reliable, dedicated growers
Position available immediately on Vancouver Island & more coming online in following months
MMPR/ACMPR & Regulated system experience an asset
In retrospect I really wish HC had created a cannabis industry made up of many small players, distributing the wealth across society
Any other country legalizing cannabis should take note & consider creating a cottage industry of family producers
Support local
#CraftCannabis
If only there were some Canadian who had been collecting cannabis genetics for 30 years, studied plant breeding & biotech, had legal import solved, & had spent their life cataloging & amassing the chemical & genetic diversity that encompasses the entire cannabis genepool
If only.
There's a funny trend in LP land.
Lack of genetics that are commercially viable. I know beans will come, but viable cuts are limited.
So we all scramble and find either a nursery or LP playing as one and load up.
6 months later everyone is the same.
/1
A novel phytocannabinoid isolated from Cannabis sativa L. with an in vivo cannabimimetic activity higher than Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol: Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabiphorol
First natural cannabinoid w/ a tail longer than 5 carbons
Thanks
@CytochromeP
for the link
ATTN: Labs with consistently high THC results... this could also happen to you!
Remember your job is to determine the actual content of the flower, not give suppliers the highest result
I’m totally down for farm gate, but limited to micros? Ridiculous.
Every BC producer should be allowed one Flagship sales point - be it on their property OR an associated retail point in an accepting community nearby
Eg:
@TantalusLabs
storefront in Coquitlam or Vancouver
I absolutely laugh at the 1M square foot greenhouses close
We said back then, it won’t work- you can’t maintain quality on that scale- they mocked us as they told us about how our business works
Now they’re shutting those sites & publicly lament the ankle-biters
#ToldYaSo
Some Gomer left cannabis infused candies on car windshields at the
#LiftCoExpo
We need to speak out against this kind of irresponsible behavior - it’s not ok to leave dosed candies laying around in public for unsuspecting people to come across, let alone children
PSA: If you are a CEO in the cannabis space publicly looking for 'high CBN genetics under 1% THC', you need to fire the CSO
CBN in the oxidative byproduct of THC
CBN is to THC as rust is to iron
Plants don't produce CBN; there is no such thing as a high CBN cultivar 🤦♂️
🤨
"Chairman Eric Paul said he can't explain how unlicensed cannabis was grown without the company's management knowledge"
Management had no idea, just rogue employees filling greenhouse bays with thousands of plants
Lying or incompetent, take your pick
Today in dumb things cannabis marketers say:'Lingering mineral content in the branch is drawn down into the buds by gravity'
This is a contender for dumbest social media marketing of the year
When will companies learn not to put their reputation in the hands of the ignorant?
So sad to hear of the passing of our dear friend Franco Casalone, one of the mentors & elders of the Italian cannabis community
Franco spent years living in the mountains in India, mastering the art of making charas (hand rubbed hashish) - he was a unique, gentle & beautiful soul
I slammed
@AuxlyGroup
for their disposable vapes,
@HugoAlves1972
reached out to explain their reasoning, but more importantly did something about the company's ecological footprint
Nice to see more than just talk from a cannabis company
#ItsAStart
👍
Master Grower is a title earned over a 30 year career, through experience with every pest, problem, environment that cannabis deals with.
Growing Cannabis is a journey, not a destination
There is no 40 day course that will produce Master growers. Period.
#SorryCCI
With
#COVID19
spreading in EU, the last thing I will be doing is attending
#Spannabis
in March
I've seen people get very sick at Spannabis (& other cannabis events) as everyone shares joints & exchanges viruses & bacteria
Be careful out there
#PuffDontPass
#SmokeYourOwn
Sitting at a nice little restaurant in a small BC town waiting for a dinner meeting w/ some Industry friends
While waiting, the super conservative looking group of elders beside me are espousing the virtues of cannabis oil for their various ailments
#CannabisAcceptance
is here🍾
‘72 Highland Mexican x Blueberry, one of our favorite exotic equatorial hybrids
A 3 Oz bag of nothing but foxtails, just wrap a paper around a spire & 💨
Not really feasible under the current system & paradigm, but maybe farm-gate direct to consumer? Would you?
📷: mexicani-ar
The majority of "educators" in the space know enough to bamboozle the masses, but when you speak to those with real knowledge you sound like a fool
You ruin your own brand trying to 'play expert'
Knowledge is a journey & we all keep learning, but don't overstep your place
CBD is psychoactive like naps, coffee, compliments, orgasms, prozac & fresh air is psychoactive
Not like how wine/beer, LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, opioids, or cocaine is psychoactive
People need to use less confusing terms to describe CBD's effects
Changing mood isn't getting high
The vape crisis in the US was a result of contaminated oil containing Vitamin E acetate, not the cannabis oil
Vapes are harm reduction devices; banning or taxing them pushes people to illicit markets
Trust the regulations
@govcanhealth
@jjhorgan
@La_SQDC
@francoislegault
The Canadian
#Cannabis
industry is made up of so many kind & interesting people
Proud of you all - such integrity & passion 🙏
We're building something incredible together
#CannaTwitter
RFK & Tulsi Gabbard are complete idiots
Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Norway & Estonia are each
@NATO
member states that share a border with Russia
This has nothing to do with Russia defending itself
Meet Cannabimovone, the new cannabinoid on the block
Identification and Characterization of Cannabimovone, a Cannabinoid from Cannabis sativa, as a Novel PPARγ Agonist
EVERY cannabis company needs a CoVID policy
Open sourcing this info encourages everyone to up their game & share best practices
This is the response I want to see - that a company is thinking about protecting the client, & not getting uppity when asked about their CoVID policy
HT to
@ChimeraGenetics
for encouraging me to post our now two week old
@TantalusLabs
COVID-19 policy. We were on this early, and your favourite cannabis firms should be as well. I encourage any executives to copy it. Prepare early and often.
Having breakfast at YVR before a flight to YEG
Girl pulls up and orders a Jack & coke with a sidecar JagerBomb
I try not to judge at airports because you never know what time zone someone is flying in from, but that’s one heck of an 8:45am order!
Destination: Fort Saint John 😂