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Russian Scientists Claim to Invent Drug-Free Cannabis, Suggest it to Replace Wild Cannabis Worldwide
MOSNEWS | 06/20/06

Scientists from the Russian city of St. Petersburg have announced they had managed to develop a new, drug-free variant of cannabis which, if grown on industrial level, would cross with wild growing hemp end eventually force it out of existence.

Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted Sergei Grigoryev of the Russian Plant Institute as saying that the amount of psychotropic substance in the new variant of cannabis is practically zero. When the new plant is crossed with the wild growing hemp the amount of psychotropic substance in the latter will gradually become less and less. If Russian hemp is grown on industrial level, it could even force the cannabis that is used for making hashish and marijuana out of existence.

The active substance in cannabis, thujone, creates Atrial natriuretic peptides which stimulates the consequent reactions in the body.

The medical controversy of cannabis lies in the potential harmful versus helpful effects. As a professionally administered drug, cannabis has been used in alleviating pain for cancer patients, helps to stimulate appetites of HIV afflicted persons, relieving inflammation of the gastro-intestinal tract, and is known to open up the blood vessels improving circulation among its various proclaimed benefits. In conjunction with its benefits are the risks it subjects users to, among those being muscular attributes given to schizophrenics, muscular incoordination, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, confusion, difficulty walking, dysarthria, dry mouth, dysphagia, blurred vision, and vomiting most of all, as with opening up the blood vessels can produce the condition of excess blood volume which results in comas and cardiac arrest, leading to death.

The scientist went on to say that hemp is one of the oldest agricultural plants with 10 thousand-year history and at present it is “unjustly” associated with drugs like marijuana. Hemp must be used to make traditional fibers and oil, Grigoriyev said.

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majinvegeta

so they are trying to get rid of pot? thats gay

vladimir

ummm, thujone is an ingredient of absinthe that comes from wormwood and other plants.....i think any similarity to THC was disproven a long time ago and i doubt that it was ever believed to be the same as THC.

they forget that it is often times grown in homes and professionally bred, therefore it would never come in contact with this crap version.

basically, i dont think these people have even the slightest clue what they are talking about. industrial hemp already exists that has incredible low amounts of thc in it, which neither affects the cannabis that people smoke nor absinthe production...

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Buzzby

The Russians invented baseball, too, so I've heard. Industrial hemp with almost no THC has been around for a long, long time.


And the wild hemp, if it happens to be strongly psychoactive, when it pollinates the industrial hemp, will raise its THC level. Breeders of cannabis for drug production will continue to produce plants to their desired specification.


There is no thujone in cannabis. Thujone is the psychoactive chemical in absinthe and is present in wormwood and several other plants.


All of which are acute intoxication effects which medical marijuana users lose after acquiring a tolerance.


I wonder if there is a Russian-language version of Marijuana.com to let those people know that this is total bullshit.?

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Buzzby

That's not in Russian.

island

Ok mr.know it all, what language is it then? Looks russian to me.

Lothar121

The characters look Russian or BelRussian to me. I can't tell the difference.

Buzzby

This is what it looks like to me:

Lothar121

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