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Message from Shantibaba :
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Hello everyone, As this is a touchy subject depending on which side of the Atlantic you are on, let's call it a difference of opinion based on similar evidence. The crux of this is that some things are well documented and have been confirmed in the Netherlands by a radio program which authenticated its facts before broadcast Make it what you want to believe and let's be civil in the discussion or stay silent I don't want to start scolding. people or ban them, so please don't make me do it...
All best, Sb
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"Sam and Nevil worked together on a few strains, but when the radio show in the Netherlands revealed that Sam and his team of Americans in the Netherlands were all informants for the American DEA, they split up and are left for the United Kingdom for other projects. Sam never founded or owned a seed company, so his claim to all the strains that became famous years ago isn't really substantiated."
all best, Sb
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Now let's dispel the story and myths that are going around, mainly due to people in the industry (other seed companies) who are more interested in making money than giving correct information. The Haze brothers worked on the Haza and it came to Sam and Nevil (owner of THE SEEDBANK), then Ben Dronkers retailed the Nevils strains under the SENSI SEEDBANK label after Nevil was imprisoned in Australia. Nevil was the first seed bank or company. exist in Holland, therefore its legendary strains such as Northern Lights 5, Ultra Skunk, Nl5 Haze, Early Pearl, Early Girl, Shiva Skunk, etc. became the basis for many offspring seed companies that followed in the 1990s.
In fact, companies like Dutch Passion and Nirvana started by copying Nevils seeds from F1 seeds, but most of them would never say it because it was Dutch businessmen who saw it first. money, not genetics. Sam and Nevil used to work together quite a bit on variety shows. but when it was revealed that Sam and his crew of Americans in Holland were all
Part of the DEA informants in America on a radio show in the Netherlands, they traveled to the UK to do something else. Sam never started or owned a seed company, so his claims about all the strains that became famous years ago aren't really justified. He has however done a lot of work on Skunk and shared some seeds with Nevil, but as you know, for breeding you can't take just any plant and create a strain like Greenhouse does these days. I was working in Australia on strains like Mullumbimby madness and Thai and Colombian sativa strains, as well as many original Afghani strains. When I arrived in the Netherlands in 1990 with my stock of seeds, I partnered with Nevil and used Arjan's coffeeshops to introduce cannabis strains and, a little later, the seeds.
versions, but we never gave him any of the plants. Arjan has just sold seeds produced by Nevil and myself. I co-founded the Greenhouse Seed Company with Arjan in 1994 (contrary to what Arjana claims, it started in 1985 thanks to him alone - he was angry that I sold him my half share and left in 1998 in Switzerland to open Mr Nice Seedbank with Nevil and Howard but I was and still am the sole owner of MNS). In 1995 I came out with the seed version of White Widow, then White Rhino 1996 and White Shark 1997 and El Nino 1998.
Himalayan gold, etc. Nevil and I worked together on some Haze strains in the early to mid 90's, of which Super Silver Haze and Mango Haze were two strains that ultimately came out of that work. The seeds were sold under the co-Greenhouse Seed label but Nevil owned these plants and only sold the seeds of these strains as well as the herb
version that won all these awards. In order to help Arjan sell the right weed we set up our own independent grow rooms and produced these weeds and Arjan bought them all so no other Dutch store could compete. At that time, the greenhouse sold good grass and seeds. But in 1998, when I won all the cups with Nevil (including Shantibaba Hash for best nederhash), a Swiss group offered me a better deal to start a medical cannabis farm and distill oil… so I sold my share to Arjan and left. . A lot of people were shocked because they thought we were a strong unit, but in reality Arjan was already on top with his success and his ego was too hard to listen to and considering Switzerland had unlimited possibilities while Holland was stuck being glorified. drug traffickers. As is still the case today. Medicine was more my interest. I took all my plants that produced the seeds, especially my dads and Nevil took all their plants with me, so together we had a library of every possible genetic in the cannabis world. Nevil quickly sold out his role in one of the coffeeshops and also had a big problem with Arjan, but it took another year or two for them to break up. Take a look at the High Times Cannabis Cup after 1998, so from 1999. It was only while Nevil was there that they won with SSH, but that quickly ended with Nevil and Arjan was even caught cheating or trying to bribe people to win the cup and was therefore disqualified. a year.
There are many stories about the Widow family and many people had access to some of the female versions that I left in Holland and quickly started pretending to be the creature etc. but the original seed versions that won the first cup in 1995 came from my plants, not anyone else's. Till today we have all the plants in their original form. Franco, the Italian who works for Arjan, doesn't even know the original plants anymore because he only came on the scene after I left. I have nothing against him but he is
paid by Arjan and is part of this show, so he believes in everything that is aimed at him. GHSco tried to get things going by purchasing some seeds that Nev and I had on sale from a guy in Holland at the time. The guy called me and told me that Arjan bought a few thousand euros worth of these seeds and a year later he released seeds under the well-known names he had used before. Growers couldn't know it until they grew it, and since many people had never grown it before, they didn't even know what they wanted..
We were watching and still don't. Many seed companies use names like White Widow, but the genetics are all different. I wrote down the true origins of the plant and everyone copied it, so it looks like everyone is selling the same genetics, but they are all selling a name that doesn't sell anything more. Ask Franco to show you a photo of the original parents acting like a widow...he can't because he's never seen them.
Ghsco has partnered with others like Ingemar who claims to be the widowed breeder but he is only a grower and never released a seed version until I did it in 1995. But all the facts have become mixed up and people are trying to confuse each other. the grower by claiming things that no one else can prove to be right or wrong… because there are no rules in the seed game since not all cannabis is in fact recognized in the official registry
the plant world as a subspecies because it is linked to medicines. So in reality no one owns anything, even all the R's filed after the names you see from various seed companies are all bullshit because they aren't really able to protect any names because the plants don't officially exist... But this is another story.
In the late 90s, I gave plants to Soma, and a year later he also started a seed business by mixing his skunks with my males. This has happened to me several times, just look at the Spanish seed companies and 10 years ago none existed until I went there in 1995 and distributed 3 kilos of seeds to producers via Canamo magazine, but that's also another story.
Now the female seed story has saved many seed companies that never really produce seed, because you only need an F1 female and some chemicals, no need for a male. So, understand why companies like Greenhouse or Dinafem, etc., have set up the sale of female seeds. Money, demand and not really needing any skills with men are all prerequisites for success.
female seed. So it's obvious to me why Arjan (who is a marketer, nothing more) and Franco come out with a new plant name every year, they buy an original F1 seed and soak it in silver nitrates and voilà, you have these products, but now there are so many doing it, it's amazing. Even companies have called me to tell me that they have feminized a Critical Mass clone in Spain and are calling it critical.
in addition but don't say anything other than thank you. I actually don't really care about other companies and what they say anymore. At MNS, we sell the real versions that won the original awards and became legends. Nowadays, everything is confusing and everyone is becoming more feminine except MNS. We exist so that people who love to reproduce can do so with
the original, true-breed plants that come from natural selection and collection from travels around the world. As they say, an empty barrel makes more noise and we are full.
Shanti Baba
Message From Nevil :
"Neither Marco nor Joe Pietri verified the statements JP attributed to me before publishing them. Before making statements that damage someone's reputation, one must be sure of one's facts, or have a first-hand knowledge.
I stand by my testimony regarding Sam. I was there, I had the documents that the Australian Federal Police had given me and I passed them on to Mario Lap. The rest is history.
I don't know what Sam said to Marco to make him do a complete change of heart like that. JP's article was not factual and therefore an apology is necessary, however this does not mean ALL of the allegations were false, I know they are not.
"It's very true, Sam has cleverly made himself out to be the victim. There's a thread on icmag where guys like Chimera and Tom Hill*** are furious and saying Marco needs to do this and that to fix things, donating money to a charity of Skunkman's choosing, etc.
I'd like to chime in on this thread and say 'wait, just because JP was bullshitting doesn't make Sam an angel', but my comment would be deleted immediately, so why bother.
Maybe it's time you told your story, Nev. I have had a few articles published in Marco's magazine, if you want to provide the information I will take the time to write an article, but given Marco's new position he might not want to publish it.
I did this. I have limited my account to the facts. I could speculate on what Sam and Rob had in mind when they tried to get me to explain my pedigrees to the feds (patents), but the fact is they tried to get me to work with the cops to send people to prison for what we all do, grow dope. This makes him a 'balance'. That's all I need to know.
Nevil
*** Chimera and Tom Hill are two important figures in the cannabis space, each having made their own significant contributions to the industry :
Chimera :
oActivities: Chimera is a renowned breeder and long-time advocate of medical cannabis. He is known for his work in creating new cannabis strains, particularly through the company Chimera Seeds..
o Genetics: He has developed several popular strains that are valued for their stability and quality, thereby helping to enrich the gene pool available to growers.
Tom Hill :
oActivities: Tom Hill is famous for his contributions to the selection and breeding of cannabis strains. He is known for his meticulous approach to hybridization and for developing strains renowned for their unique qualities.
o Legacy: Hill is respected for his commitment to preserving traditional genetics and his work in creating new varieties that have had a significant impact on the industry.
These two individuals played important roles in the cultivation of cannabis, each contributing in their own way to the improvement and diversification of strains available on the market.
Message From Matt Rize :
"The TRUTH will never be revealed on this matter, because Sam won't allow it. He denies an arrest in 1985...? This is just the beginning. He has not commented on Marco's apology on IC.. .and you know he saw them, he's a moderator with 1000 snitches/fanboys there, and they censor every post with financial and political scrutiny. It seems like if he's hiding the truth, it's probably. for good reason no one wants to deal with skeletons, especially when it comes to huge illegal transactions, lol."
Matt
Message From Marco Renda :
All I've been told is that Sam has third party contracts. Sorry but I've never seen a DEA contract before so I really don't know what's on 1 of these contracts.
Sam the Skunkman is the one working with Monsanto to produce GMO-modified cannabis as well as ready-to-use varieties and strains of herbicides (without THC content) HortiPharm (Clarke and Watson) sold the HortiPharm genetic library to GW Pharmaceuticals.
And GW is connected to Bayer Pharmaceuticals. Bayer is the money behind the acquisition of nearly 40,000 acres in the Emerald Triangle. That This partnership earned Bayer the license for Sativex in the United States as the only competitor to Marinol.
Read Dr. David Malmo-Levine sometime to find out where all this bullshit is going
"Sam" is a conspiratorial thief who has cornered the market by turning his competitors over to the DEA. Let's put another myth to rest, Sam was not the FIRST American to arrive in the Netherlands, nor the first to bring Kush region genetics to Norcal or even to be the main source.
In fact, there are records of Indica genetics in this country dating back to the era of prior legality and primarily in areas where medical cannabis from that era was grown.
And Big Pharma of that era was heavily invested in cannabis.
Sam's problem with Neville seems pretty clear :
Nevil sold strains to Ben Dronkers Sensi Seeds while Sam sold the same to GW Pharm, leaving questions of "property rights" for when cannabis is standardized.
If it was just ego at play, that would be one thing. Unfortunately, there is much more at stake, especially in light of the fact that the Bitter Petrols, Original Gangsters and M16s of the world are all actually hybrids derived from Skunkman bloodlines and his company would like everyone to believe that they are their responsibility. And it doesn't take very long to see how it benefits these individuals in the long run and how it might affect the "community" down the road..
It's amazing what you can find with a little research. I found the information below quite significant, as it clearly shows that Hortapharm provides cannabis samples (presumably Skunk #1 and other common strains used in today's modern breeding scene ) which are used to "establish a conspiracy in the cultivation of marijuana".
How many cannabis strains are hybridized with Skunk#1, or Northern Lights, White Widow, Haze, etc? If these samples are sent to testing centers funded by the United States government, which are then used as evidence in conspiracy charges against producers and perhaps even breeders, consider the ultimate implications of this decision.
Hortapharms' cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration. If you possess a cannabis strain linked to the samples provided by Hortapharm and find yourself on the wrong side of the law and your plants are then analyzed and found to be genetically related to the samples provided by Hortapharm, this information can then be used as evidence to support a cultivation conspiracy charge not only against you, but perhaps against those who supplied you with the seeds and even against the breeder himself.
With some time to reflect on the end result(s) this research could produce in terms of potential legal ramifications against many well-known names in the industry today, one cannot take this information lightly or simply neglect it as many of you have chosen to do so far.
Potentially, anyone not associated with Hortapharm could become a target from the cannabis samples provided to the U.S. government for this research. Breeding industry stalwarts such as Skunk #1, Northern Lights, Haze, White Widow, etc. are today the basic elements of marketed seeds.
Their prevalence in breeding programs across the world today is not in question, making professional and amateur seeds linked in one way or another to these lines extremely common.
And this thus adds to the potential for anyone not associated with Hortapharm to become a target simply based on the genetic relationship between their strains and those in the samples that Hortapharm provided to the government to use to aid and abet carrying cultivation conspiracy charges against anyone who finds themselves on the wrong side of the law.
* HortaPharm B.V. (Netherlands) and Kenex Ltd. (Canada) provided research substances registered and authorized by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy, with support from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation as well as the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Gare.
The study was first presented at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America. 2004 reunion in Snowbird, Utah.
Marco
Message From Dash Riprock :
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(https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/who-really-owns-cannabis-genetics.68723/)
I was recently banned from ICmag (familiar story I know), but the reason I was banned was because I was arguing with Skunkman over ownership of genetics. Apparently he is currently asking growers on the ICmag forums to send him any seeds (even dead ones) they have so he can send them to a lab in Oregon called Phylos Biosciences for DNA is sequenced.
http://phylosbioscience.com/about/
I was banned and all my posts deleted when I told others about Skunkman's genetic abuses, i.e. selling his library to GW Pharmaceuticals who then sold the patent for Sativex ( made from Hortapharm's Skunkman and RCC genes for a rumored 7-figure sum). ). I'm actually not sure of the financial details, but hortapharm definitely sold their strains to GW who then partnered with Bayer (a subsidiary of the Nazi war machines I.G Farben), so I'm pretty pissed. I thought the best place to have this conversation was with Skunkman himself, but he's (a megalomaniac?) pretty unreasonable, and I say that because instead of talking about it, he just threw the hammer at me of banishment.
The fact is that we, as a community (a global community of cannabis enthusiasts), are going to allow two men from the same company to attempt to claim any cannabis crop they find and then claim it. sequence and claim ownership? This is a truly frightening turn of events. What if, in the future, you are caught growing a strain that these companies have trademarked or claimed as intellectual property? Let's remember that Bayer has a monster legal team, billions of dollars at its disposal, and a known history of highly unethical (criminal) behavior. I'm still amazed that people I admired sold us all down the line to big pharma, so they could sleep on silk sheets and leave a "legacy" for nameless shits. The owners of Hortapharm no longer care about the community; they decided to suck up the enemy to satisfy their own selfish desires.
Answer:
Under the Epidiolex brand, GW Pharma mainly owns CBD products. There is a fairly constant mention of a patented Canadian PVR for a variety called "Grace", but their own admissions about plant breeders' rights are quite vague... GW GW Pharmaceuticals PLC SEC Filings - Annual Report for Foreign Private Issuers
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificat_d%27obtention_v%C3%A9g%C3%A9tale
"Strong competitive position in a highly specialized and regulated field. We believe we are uniquely positioned to benefit from the significant potential in the field of cannabinoid therapies in which we have developed successful experience and expertise over our 15 years of operation. Furthermore, we believe that the highly specialized field of research and the high degree of international regulation by government authorities create significant barriers to entry. We have an intellectual property portfolio comprising 46 families. of patents with issued and/or pending claims relating to plants, plant extracts, extraction technology, pharmaceutical formulations, drug delivery and therapeutic uses of cannabinoids. we hold plant variety rights and possess a significant body of know-how and trade secrets related to the selection and cultivation of plants"
Does GW support medical marijuana or the use of herbal cannabis – smoked or not – as medicine?
No. GW supports the evidence-based approach to developing new drugs in accordance with the FDA approval process. Sativex is of standardized composition, thoroughly tested and quality assured, and administered at an appropriately controlled and defined dose. Sativex contains both THC and CBD, and preclinical and clinical studies suggest that CBD may alleviate many of the negative effects of THC, including intoxication. The Sativex clinical development program is designed to demonstrate that it is possible to develop a cannabis-derived medicine according to modern medical standards - such as those established by the FDA process - as is the case for all others medications prescribed for serious medical reasons. Conditions: Products that have gone through the FDA process have been shown to be safe and effective for a particular medical condition; that they have been manufactured in accordance with properly validated quality control processes; that they are highly standardized and consistent from batch to batch; and that they provide a fixed and reproducible dose; and that they can be reimbursed by the patient’s health insurance plan.
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Here's another reason why I think we should be wary of DNA sequencing at least for the near future, maybe longer for some of us:
New marijuana DNA database declares war on weed.
A national marijuana DNA database has been created by a university researcher. It will allow law enforcement to trace the origin of drugs during arrests and seizures of contraband drugs.
DNA mapping system, developed at the University of New Haven, for the first time allows law enforcement to not only track the origin of marijuana, but also potentially link it to drug trafficking organizations in Mexico, to producers in Canada or to national distribution gangs. , perhaps to connect the dots and make a case for conspiracy.
The system can trace marijuana from a single bud or seed to its source, provided there are matching samples. Matching DNA to plants grown on public land in California, for example, could demonstrate that the crop was planted by a specific pharmaceutical operation. So if one person has a suitcase of marijuana and another has bags of it, the police can determine that it comes from the same grow.
Plant DNA is similar to human DNA in that it retains its genetic profile throughout its life.
Essentially, the new marijuana database is similar to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) human DNA database. The CODIS system contains DNA profiles obtained from perpetrators and crime scene evidence, such as semen, saliva or blood. CODIS uses computer software to automatically search these clues for a potential match.
Heather Coyle, joint principal investigator and geneticist at the University of New Haven's Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science, said the Cannabis DNA Data Bank is important because it provides a more efficient way to classify marijuana.
“Currently, most agencies determine the identity of cannabis by the presence or absence of THC, a chemical compound unique to marijuana,” Coyle said. “However, many samples do not contain THC, such as seeds, roots and hemp.” THC, also known as delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, is the main psychoactive constituent of the cannabis plant.
For samples that are part of an illegal drug operation, DNA-based identification improves law enforcement capabilities by establishing a different legal standard for identifying and proving the identity of the substance, a Coyle said.
"At this time, I view this strictly as a law enforcement tool, since Cannabis sativa L. is the only species of marijuana classified as a Schedule I drug, illegal at the federal level, due to significant abuse potential and serious side effects such as psychosis and paranoia, which are observed in users of the raw herbal form and FDA-approved Marinol tablets,” she said. THC, which the government classifies as a hallucinogenic or psychedelic substance, is one of 130 drugs listed on Schedule I. Marinol is synthetic THC prescribed for AIDS-related weight loss and chemotherapy-related nausea.
Over the past 40 years, numerous attempts have been made in the United States to get the federal government to remove cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the most strictly restricted category reserved for drugs defined as having no currently accepted medical use. Proponents of rescheduling argue that cannabis does not meet the strict criteria of the Controlled Substances Act to be placed on Schedule I and, therefore, the government must either allow medical use or remove the drug altogether. of federal control. The government, however, continues to maintain that cannabis is dangerous enough to merit inclusion in Schedule I.
Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the world, according to the 2012 United Nations World Drug Report, with between 119 million and 224 million users aged 18 or older. It is also the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States. According to a 2012 government report, more than 30 percent of high school students surveyed admitted to using marijuana in the past year, even though marijuana has been linked to health problems such as addiction, lung disease, and the Depression.
Message From Xochi kokopelli sur thcfarmer:
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Dear Friends of the THC Growing Community.
I am the president/founder (Dominique Guillet) of the Kokopelli Association in France and we have been promoting the protection of food biodiversity for 23 years. We have a collection of more than 2000 varieties of vegetables, ancient and open-pollinated cereals... All our seeds are organic. We have also, for 10 years, been before the Courts of Justice, up to the Supreme Court in France and up to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg... to defend ourselves against the attacks of multinational seed companies who wanted to destroy our non-profit organization. In Europe, and mainly in France, you cannot sell a variety of vegetables or cereals that is not listed in at least one of the National Catalogs of European countries. A large part of our seed collection is therefore strictly illegal under French law. Even though we have lost most of our cases, we continue our good illegal work! Our seeds are sold in Europe and distributed free of charge to poor rural communities in third world countries.
In line with our life missions of promoting Fertility, fighting against the captive seed market (F1 hybrids and genetic chimeras) and fighting against the confiscation of Life, I decided to open, last month, a new website, Xochipelli.fr.
The self-proclaimed and transparent goals of my new website are to firstly shed light on the taboo/curse/ban placed on all visionary substances - called Serotonergic Neurognostics by author and master herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner - gifted to us by Mother Nature (plants, mushrooms, etc.) and on the other hand to fight against the confiscation of all these substances by the Corporate Pharmacocracy.
My first four and very long articles focus on the confiscation of cannabis by pharmaceutical companies. My second article concerns Bedrocan in Holland and Canada. I am in the process of quickly having them translated into English. My very long article entitled "HortaPharm and GW Pharm: the Monsantos of Cannabis" covers the last 30 years of psychopathic behavior stemming from David Watson and his group in Holland - from 1985 to 2015. In these 2 articles covering HortaPharm, GW Pharm and Bedrocan, I highlight the fact that these 3 companies benefited from protection/collusion at the highest levels of state administrations in the Netherlands and England - and by extension, Europe.
My last article, posted today, asks a specific question to the INRA station, in Rennes in Brittany, about their involvement - through Hayo van der Waerf - with David Watson/International Hemp Association. INRA, the National Institute of Agricultural Research, is financed by public money. The French control most of the hemp industry in Europe and so-called certified French hemp varieties have been sold abroad, for example in Canada since 1998. INRA has been working, for 20 years, to destroy all good old pollinated and dioecious varieties of hemp to replace them with monoecious varieties which will very quickly induce a huge genetic bottleneck. French farmers are completely prohibited from reproducing their own hemp seeds and must purchase certified seeds each year from seed companies strictly controlled by the state. A seed market c While writing this last article, I finally discovered that David Watson and the International Hemp Association have a dual website: one with a white background (internationalhempassociation.org) and one with a green background (hempworl. com). Green, when you know where to look, is a cover for the hemp trade, expensive cannabis paraphernalia and the Nirvana seed bank. The root page of the second green is black and presents 400 internet domain names (including keywords: hemp, pot, canamo, etc.) available for rent at the exorbitant price of 1200 dollars per year and after 15 seconds, this page turns by itself. into a commercial hemp and cannabis accessories website with a Facebook symbol at the bottom of the page linking to the Weedportal.com Facebook page offering all typical Nirvana.aptif products.
I also recently discovered that Phylos Biosciences in Oregon - which stars Robert Connel Clarke and is promoted by David Watson - is most likely a sub-unit of the Craig Venter Institute since three of its collaborators are on board , through synthetic genomics. Inc. How come the Craig Venter Institute is getting into the cannabis “Melting Pot”?
If the THCFarmer grower community considers this to be a sensitive issue and an important topic for the future of the tribes, I would like to start a new conversation on this forum on the topic of confiscation - or the numerous attempts to - cannabis/hemp genetic resources.
Peace Xochi
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I would bet my nuts on a chopping block that GW is an umbrella company of Monsanto. One way or another, down the rabbit hole. I know GW Pharma has 800 acres of greenhouses in Eastern Washington for cannabis production. I also wouldn't be surprised at all if they financed this through a legal 502 crop and sold their "merchandise" to us. Look what's going to happen in the next 10 years with big canna.....just watch. With the cannabis industry projected to be $40 billion for 2020 (the movie industry is just over $10 billion), shit is going to get REALLY real, real quick. Ahhh nepotism...every member of Congress's favorite word.
The truth is that GW Pharm may not be in a very good financial situation at this time. You can consult, diagonally, because it's boring, the financial analysis of Seekingalpha. But it's the same thing with so many cannabis startups that have jumped on the pot wagon to make their fortune and, a few years later, are acquired by Big Pharma or Big Biotech - which is pretty much the same thing. They are all dying for money. In France, GW's Sativex was authorized for sale in January 2014 but was never sold due to its exorbitant price ($5000/7000 per year) - and the many articles I have written recently do not go not help! Furthermore, GW Pharm is not boasting about the study published in January 2015: "GW, which is developing the pain drug Sativex in collaboration with Japan's Otsuka, said the first of three advanced trials found no statistically significant difference between subjects using his medication. product and those who received a placebo. A big joke and a very expensive placebo.
To address your point that GW is in Eastern WA with 800 acres of greenhouses, this seems far-fetched as they already have a production of 30 tonnes of buds in the South of England , every year, to manage. I guess you know better than me how much cannabis you can produce in a single acre of greenhouse!! I have the numbers somewhere in my article on Bedrocan Canada (Canopy Growth). That said, they have 200 employees. So you might be right that they are found in the US, in very remote locations in the eastern deserts of the west coast, but that would be super secret because there is no record of that nowhere. Everything is possible... because GW is under very high protection from the Authorities. If you have any other clues about GW in Washington State, let me know where and I'll go ask them if I can do an on-camera interview! I am also a botanist with frequent explorations in the western deserts in search of wild buckwheat (Eriogonum). I even discovered a new subspecies of Eriogonum microthecum near Mount Shasta last year. But this is another wild subject – with a more peaceful aroma of wildness compared to the wild hunt for psychopaths wreaking havoc in cannabis communities!
As for potential links with Monsanto, there is no trace of this, apart from the well-known triangulation involving David Watson, Dr. Mahmoud ElSohly (University of Mississippi) and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals which would have merged with Monsanto around 1930/1940 according to Henri Berger . s book (St Louis and Empire). Everything else is just rumors or well-hidden facts.
And apart, of course, from the fact that Bayer distributes GW and the fact that Bayer has been in agreement with Monsanto for mutual technology sharing since 2007.
Peace Xochi
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Learn more about David Watson, GW Pharm and their future of genetically modified cannabis. On the ICMag forum, Sam the Skunkman (aka David Watson) relentlessly shouts that there is no genetically modified cannabis in the world and always protects his good friends in medicinal genomics (Woburn, MA and Amsterdam).
First point. Medicinal Genomics was taken over by Courtagen Life Sciences (a McKernan family affair since they are all brothers) and Courtagen Life Sciences works hand in hand with GW Pharm.
Second point. Here's what Kevin McKernan, owner of Medicinal Genomics, says about genetically modified cannabis (in "Genetically Modified Marijuana: The Future of Medical Cannabis"):
"Good intentions aside, the medical marijuana business is huge and growing at over 50% annually. There is a lot of money to be made, especially if pharmaceutical cannabis products or strains of Genetically modified cannabis are the only legal form of the drug.
“It's going to have to be a fairly regulated market,” says McKernan, “and the regulation will come through the genetics and fingerprinting of the approved strains.”
“It may be possible, through genome-directed breeding, to attenuate the psychoactive effects of cannabis, while enhancing the medicinal aspects.”
Let's not forget that David Watson/aka the Lord of the Homozygous Clones, has been obsessed for nearly 30 years with fingerprints, sequencing... cannabis genetic resources with the support of his so-called botanist friend, Robert Clarke - on board. recently with Phylos Biosciences - and the support of Dr Mahmoud ElSohly. And this may well have been one of his major missions, first serving the DEA and the Australian Federal Police and, later, serving the Big Pharma Mafia. Since 1985.
Peace Xochi
Site:https://xochipelli.fr/
Message From agseedco (Todd McCormick)
Let me start by saying that you have both been misled by a government revealing the name of Joe Pietri, who wrote the book "KING OF NEPAL". This book was more like an affidavit than a book. I first met Joe at the University of Miami in March 1995, while I was there at the request of Florida NORML with Elvy Musikka. She is the first woman to legally receive medical cannabis from the federal government. As a glaucoma patient, she was one of the first true activists fighting for the medical rights of others. We were there to debate the leader of the Southeast Quadrant of the DEA, Wayne Roques (I think). Joe introduced himself with the DEA agent under the name "Konsupsa" and was clearly managed by the agent.
Konsupsa was supposedly a well-known smuggler who supposedly used an anonymous name, and no one from Florida NORML knew who he was. I always believed that there were government plants and snitches used as agents provocateurs within the social network of any political movement, and Konsupsa was clearly one of those puppets.
Back then, I recorded everything on video. When "Konsupsa" was introduced, he started talking, and within 15 seconds of starting, he said, "Konsupsa means hippie in Laotian." You can then see the DEA agent touch his arm and audibly say, "No, I don't want to do that." Konsupsa then repeated the DEA agent saying, "No, you don't want to do that, okay," just as if he were a puppet.
In 1995, I didn't know who this guy was, but I realized he was being manipulated by the DEA, because NORML didn't know who he was, and we didn't invite him to the debate. He showed up with the DEA. After the event, Konsupsa tried to befriend me and talk to me. I told him I only had one question for him: "How the hell do you manage to be both anonymous and a well-known smuggler?" At this point, he looked like he was dodging bullets and just wanted to get away from me, because I obviously wasn't playing softball.
Years later, while I was in prison (2000 to 2004), Joe Pietri, the author of "KING OF NEPAL", sent me his book. In the pages, I found the answer: he admitted to cooperating with the federal government. They agreed to drop the charges against him if he told them everything he knew about the ganja trade. I will take photos of the pages and post them here for your reference.
Around 2009, Marco Renda, who was publishing the magazine "Treating Yourself" in Canada, decided to start publishing the absolutely false propaganda that Joe was writing about Skunkman Sam and the entire Dutch seed industry. Later, Marco wrote to me from Mexico to apologize for the incriminating articles he had allowed Joe to publish in his magazine. Marco wanted to draw attention to his post, even if it meant publishing lies and allowing people to attack the character and credibility of good people. This marketing tactic backfired and Marco quickly went bankrupt through his own fault.
The above article is BS written by Joe about Skunkman Sam. I believe Joe has been working as an agent provocateur for the federal government since he started cooperating in the early 90's. Once a puppet, always a puppet.
Nothing Joe has written should be taken seriously and you should question the source of everything you read.
The rumors Nevil and Joe started about Sam turned out to be false.
The truth is that Nevil had no idea what Skunkman Sam was doing when he moved to Amsterdam. Nevil knew nothing about the creation of Marinol by Roxanne Laboratories, nor that Sam saw an opportunity to create a generic version of THC for the international market, like all other patented drugs available on prescription. Nevil had no idea about cannabinoids, terpenes or how a pharmaceutical company could conduct research in the Netherlands.
My friends, who owned seed companies in the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s, were like ants next to a skyscraper. They didn't understand what was happening in the penthouse above them or how the building was constructed. When they learned that Skunkman Sam was using a pseudonym (obviously) and that his real name was David Watson, and that he had somehow obtained a license to grow cannabis in the Netherlands (this which they could have done just as well if they had known what he was doing), none of them understood how he did it, or what he did. None of them, and I mean none, had any idea about medical cannabis, the chemicals it contains, or the potential it had as medicine.
As for the rumors that Sam swung at Sacred Seeds, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, because Sam was Sacred Seeds. He started his own seed business in the mid-70s after returning from his "hippie trail" with his wife, with whom he recently celebrated his 50th anniversary. They returned from India through London to Morocco, then from Morocco to Germany, through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and ended up living in India, collecting seeds all the time. There is literally a picture of India on the very first Sacred Seeds seed brochure.
Sam ended up living next door to "G", who was the original Haze breeder, and down the street from "R.L", who was the guy behind the famous Original Haze poster. Sam developed Skunk #1 in the early 1970s and began selling seeds of this strain in 1975.
At the time, a young Robert Clarke was studying at the University of Santa Cruz and working on what would become his first book: "The Botany and Ecology of Cannabis," published in 1976. I was told that Sam had purchased a copy of the book, and when Rob realized Sam lived nearby, he hand-delivered it to him. This is how the two guys became friends for life.
The contributions they have made to the community, both in releasing high-quality cannabis genetics and in disseminating high-quality information, are second to none. Without their close relationship, Nevil would never have obtained Sam's seeds, as it was Rob who put Sam in contact with Nevil in the first place.
It's really hard for me to underestimate how absolutely ignorant Nevil and other Dutch seed breeders were when it came to medical cannabis. It was literally like ants next to a skyscraper: they had no idea what Rob and Sam were trying to do with Hortapharm, nor what Rob nor Sam were trying to explain to them. Pharmaceutical companies rarely share their proprietary information, making futile the pretense of ignorant competitors in an area they don't even understand. This is how I see the situation between Nevil and Sam. After purchasing Sam's seeds, Nevil began copying them and selling them as original, thus quickly ending his relationship with Sam.
Imagine if a whiskey distillery got their hands on an old whiskey like Jack Daniels No. 7 and decided to continue producing it without paying the rights to Jack himself. This would likely create tension, and that is exactly what has happened in the cannabis industry. Nevil, Ben Dronkers, and many others continued to profit immensely from Sam's Skunk #1, often claiming it was their own creation while constantly lying about it.
In 1979, Sam wrote an article for a magazine about LSD called BLOTTER, which I'm sure all of you will admit was extremely advanced for its time. This magazine was published by the man who would later publish The Psychedelic Encyclopedia, and he was a neighbor of Sam's at the time.
Sam's nickname when he was tripping was Jingles, because he wore a jester hat with bells at parties. When Sam wrote the article for BLOTTER, he simply spelled his nickname backwards: Jingles became Selgnij.
Sam was trying to teach everyone how to breed and he was at a level 41 years ago that most breeders couldn't even understand today.
Sam is not a bad person, and he did not betray his own seed company. In the 1970s, the seed issue was not as crucial, as almost all cannabis was sown and genetics were widely traded openly. Sam didn't have to steal anything from anyone to collect strains, and he got strains like Durban Poison and Afghan #1 from people like Mel Frank, who himself mentioned giving these genetics to Sam before he left for the The Netherlands.
Sam also owned what would become the most popular hybrid of the 1970s, Skunk #1. I have no doubt that growers were more than happy to trade genetics with him, given his vast collection of native cannabis strains that he had personally collected during his hitchhiking travels thousands of miles across the “hippie trail”.
For those of you who don't know, Sam had a wife and children in the 70's and was already a well known farmer in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the 70's. After Ronald Reagan became president and the war on drugs started, he realized he had to leave America, otherwise he would probably end up in prison and his family would break up.
Yes, one of his fields was pillaged, but no, they didn't find his seeds. Sacred Seeds was just Sam and his seed collection..
I believe the feds hate Sam and employed Joe Pietri to attempt to assassinate the character of a very good person. Nevil was a heroin addict who had scammed most of his partners and burned out almost every relationship he had. After Nevil passed away, I couldn't find anyone who wanted to publicly eulogize him, which says a lot.
I know I'm making a hole in an internet fantasy of making Sam something he's not, but it's the truth.
Looking at Sam's career in the 1970s as a hippie maker of the world's most famous cannabis hybrid and then branching out into international science by becoming the founder of the International Hemp Association, the Founder of Hortapharm, co-author of numerous books, and provider of hemp and cannabis genetics to almost everyone, in my opinion, Sam is the true hero of this story, not the villain. Other people like Nevil and Joe came along afterwards, tried to take credit for his work, and sought to destroy his character for their own personal gain.
And after watching that video of Joe sitting next to the DEA agent, do you really want to get your information from someone who is obviously just a DEA puppet?
I first arrived in Amsterdam in 1994, and that's when I started receiving information from Nevil, Ben and Wernard claiming that Sam was collaborating with the DEA. They were among the first in a long line in the cannabis industry to try to take credit for the creation of cannabis. Ironically, there is no "Skunk" in the Netherlands, and none of these men really know what "skunk" looks like, because none of them have spent any time in North America, where the term "skunk" is commonly used.
I've been studying this story since 1994 and it saddens me that people like Steve Hager just repeated lies instead of doing their homework and publishing the truth.
At first I believed Nevil, but over the years I learned that he was a liar, as most heroin addicts are..
I never believed in Joe Pietri, because when he showed up at the DEA to argue with me, he seemed to be manipulated and acted like a puppet. Unfortunately, years later, I still find myself having to respond to his rhetorical attacks on a valuable person.
I write this today because I firmly believe that people of value deserve to be defended when others spread lies about them. I have no problem defending Skunkman Sam's reputation and exposing the lies Nevil, Ben and Wernard have told against him. If any of the destructive lies they told about Sam were true, there would be affidavits and documents to prove it. No one has ever testified to being one of the founders of Sacred Seeds and accused Sam of reporting them.
I urge you all to do your own research, seek out the sources and discover their motivations. Having had to go to prison several times and having served half a decade in prison, I would never defend an informant. I deplore them, and that's one of the reasons why I took my time today to write this story of Joe Pietri, because I for one can't wait to fertilize his grave.
Todd
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The last time I was raided was in 2012 with Richard Lee, founder of Oaksterdam:
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa...on-of-pot-in-california-idINDEE8310JV20120402
The feds mistakenly believed that because we were such good friends, I was hiding his money. At that time, the federal government was putting pressure on the banks to close the accounts of all legal, or should I say, semi-legal (although licensed by the city of Oakland since 2000), including its own cannabis dispensary. As a result, his dispensary had been kicked out of more than a dozen banks in the previous 12 months
The DEA came shouting, “Where are the safes, where are the states?” » Of course I didn't have the safes, but they confiscated 38 lamps and 700 plants. That day there had been a tragic murder involving several people at Oikos Christian University, just down the road from Oaksterdam University. Federal authorities had mobilized local Oakland police resources for the case, and they could no longer disperse the Occupy Oakland protesters downtown. Therefore, they eventually withdrew. Going from fear of imminent arrest to seeing them leave was a surreal experience for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oikos_University_shooting
A few weeks later, I got a call from someone claiming to be a DEA saying they wanted me to come talk to them, and I asked him if I should, and he said, "No." , it's voluntary", so I told him that I had volunteered not to do it.
It was April 2012. In January 2013, I received a letter in the mail informing me that I was charged with a crime in Oakland, which surprised me greatly because I had never been charged with a crime by mail before. I went down to court and appeared, but the prosecution wasn't ready to proceed, so they postponed the hearing. During my second appearance, the prosecution asked for an extension because they were still not ready, which the judge accepted. During my third appearance, the prosecution was finally ready and asked the judge to remand me in custody with a $50,000 bond. Fortunately, the judge looked at the situation and denied the motion, stating that I had been present and ready for every appearance, while this was the first time the prosecution was ready. He asked me if I needed a public defender, to which I replied "no." He smiled and agreed to my request to keep my passport for my trips to Europe, even before the prosecution could object.
I immediately went to San Francisco and hired Tony Serra to represent me, as we have been friends since 1994. Having already under my belt three offenses for cannabis cultivation (1997, 2006, 2009), I was faced with a potentially long sentence. I was sued throughout 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and into 2017. We had to prepare to go to trial three times, and they backed out each time. The charges were not dropped until Proposition 64 passed and all criminal cultivation charges were reduced to misdemeanors. Suddenly my criminal cultivation became a joke when it was charged with a misdemeanor and they had to send me back to the lower court to start all over again. Fortunately, Tony presented a very good argument to the lower court judge that prosecution had been the punishment as it had been applied for the past five years and that with the passage of the new law, it There was no way for the police to obtain a warrant. coming to my house for something that is now legal. The judge agreed and dismissed the case.
My life has been raked over many times just because I'm still growing, but I think it's worth it. I would rather die proud of myself than die a coward. People who swing are like Cogo, they never get prosecuted, they never go to jail and they live their lives like pathetic pawns in the war on drugs and even the cops who use them have no respect for them.
Legalization will weaken the people who use the fact that we grow against us and, in my opinion, the legalization of cannabis cannot come soon enough.
Todd
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I have NEVER cooperated, nor would I, because it goes against everything I stand for. On January 3, 2000, I surrendered on time to a 5-year prison sentence in a 100% hemp suit and took drugs.
I was never afraid of going to prison, that's why I never cooperated. After 18 months of imprisonment, prosecutors contacted my lawyer and sent him around June 2001, with the message that if I cooperated, they would ask the judge to release me.
My response was FUCK THEM. I then spent the remainder of my sentence in prison and was not released until May 19, 2004. Anyone who says I ever cooperated is a fucking liar. I can't wait for you to die Cogo, because I will come and fertilize your grave mother fucker.
Todd
Message From Joe pietri
Robert C. Clarke comes out of the closet and finally admits that scientists were working with law enforcement to identify the origin of cannabis and hashish shipments, he and David Watson Mel Frank going by the first name with the first czar drug by Carlton Turner Reagan.
The cannabis cup in Amsterdam was an intelligence gathering event. Clarke thanked Carton Turner in his first book Hashish for his help in writing this book. Can you imagine being called DEA or DIA by the DEA and CIA undercover in Amsterdam? Todd McCormick is a pathetic figure in the cannabis scene whose nickname Hungry Ho 3 was given to him in Oregon, but that's another story.
Ray Cogo, a good guy used and abused by Nevil, they even ripped off his 1 part nutrient formula and created 12 different products from it. The Dutch scene is the second worst thing that could happen to cannabis, short of making mother nature illegal.
