Superpowers from da weeds?

[The Pieyed Piper]

http://the420times.com/2011/03/will-radiation-from-japan-affect-the-2011-marijuana-crop/

If significant radiation hits California from Japan, how will this affect our $10 Billion marijuana crop? Will it be safe to smoke, or even make edibles from? Will the 2011 crop have to be tested with geiger counters? Will growers be forced to certify they were indoor-only? Or will we all be dead anyway and not have to worry about it?

Assuming there isn’t a world-threatening mega-meltdown from the Fukushima nuclear reactors – which could make the simple act of surviving more important than your next dose of medicine – what kind of problems might be caused for the medical marijuana industry here in California by drifting radiation from Japan?

According to sources such as K14U.com, it all depends. And that is to say, it depends on many factors, such as the amount of radioactivity, the altitude that radioactive particles reach in the air, and the direction of the wind. Luckily, it isn’t fallout from a nuclear explosion we’re dealing with, because that would send radioactive particles high into the atmosphere, where they can enter the jet stream, traveling literally around the world at high speed in days.

Luckily, dealing with this level of contamination is relatively easy…you just wash up. One Japanese doctor thinks the best analogy is for you to think of yourself as a hay fever sufferer and the contamination as pollen. Just brush it off your clothes and body, and try to keep it out of your home or car. Now to get to our favorite subject, marijuana; especially outdoor-grown marijuana. Basically, go with the instructions that farmers get from the government and understand that the radioactive half-life of Iodine-131 is about 8 days, so in a little more than two weeks, the effective contamination is just a fraction of what it was at the beginning.

So unless somehow you happen to be growing and ready to harvest outdoor crops in the next two weeks and an amount of radiation escapes that’s huge enough to affect us here in California, you don’t really have to worry. But if you want to be extra careful, you should wash off the leaves and buds of any plant that grew in contaminated conditions, and you’d still probably want to do a water cure for the safest result.

While we’re at it, please spare a moment to think of all the people in Japan who actually are close enough to the Fukushima site to seriously have to deal with this right now…not to mention the many thousands who have already died and even more who live in cities and towns that have been wiped away by the earthquake and tsunami.

[bleys]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SPARE THE MARIJUANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh, and pray for all those who are suffering..............

[Darth Biscuit]

[PanthaSan]

Meh.

You guys shouldn't be too concerned. It might improve teh herb.

<--------survived the paraquat poisoning attempt in the 70's.