104 kg of weed disguised in two large Rubics cube artworks that was weld shut caught at the airport in Netherlands
Coming from San Fransisco’
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SMH how have people not learned not to test NL customs
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They should have disguised it as THCa Hemp
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They probably did not realizing that ALL flower cbd or thc rich is illegal in the Netherlands yep that’s right 0.2% thc doesn t count either ALL
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interesting story on terpenes
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/cannabis-study-terpenes-thc-anxiety-19358451.php
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Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t that company “Biotech Institute LLC” modify a few cultivars to be limonene dominant and blow away the competition with them at the Emerald Cup a few years ago? Haven’t heard anything about that company for a few years now
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The concept of the study is kinda cool, but the sample size is laughable and setting things up so that the THC + terpene group doesn’t easily know what group they’re in purely by the taste of the terpene is gonna be supremely difficult (they didn’t even attempt it in that study). Still, it’s good to see people starting in on research that “the establishment” will take a little more seriously.
I’d be interested to see where Marinol / Epidiolex styled pharmaceuticals with added, calibrated amounts of specific terpenes would take us. (Probably first to the bank, to apply for a loan 
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2024 national drug threat assessment (DEA)
NDTA_2024.pdf (11.9 MB)
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It sounds like they have identified new problems with Marijuana and attribute these new problems to the black market adapting to the trend of state by state legalization. It felt like, from the wording, that they think federal regulation is the answer to these new problems.
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Broke: Exit scamming and stealing money from criminals
Woke: Exit scamming AND extorting criminals
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The grandstanding and back patting in that article is next level.
Why doesn’t anyone assume it was knocked offline and taken over by Leo, and THEY sent the extortion?
IMO when they announced the extortion, it made a bunch of people clean house and try very hard to cover up their tracks, which may make proving a crime a bit more difficult. I don’t think they would tip their hand like that.
What’s more likely is that the attack that caused them to lose funds about a month prior to the exit was done by LEO and the backend was imaged at that time. Thus, in order to make up for his losses, admin does the extortion thing.
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Your phD is irrelevant, and you know it, that’s why you said molecular biology hoping nobody calls you on your bullshit. Let’s be real, how many classes in your studies were even REMOTELY adjacent to opiates and drug abuse?
You have not referenced even a single expert in the field whose opinion you’d defer to. I would bet dollars to doughnuts you don’t even know who the experts in the field are.
You’re entirely uneducated on the subject, and it’s shameful that you pretend otherwise.
This 
is why people switch to heroin.
And when people don’t switch to heroin, it’s because they think it’s below them. Pill addicts consider themselves to be better than heroin addicts, because their drug dealer is their doctor.
-_-
Imagine, for a second, you went to a friends house for dinner and they had no knives. They told you they can’t have knives in their house, because they can’t trust themselves around the knives.
That would be fucking batshit, wouldn’t it? But for some reason if you can’t be trusted with a medicine cabinet full of pills it’s the pill companies fault.
you’re a little slow in the head huh
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No dear bro, I said Molecular Biology because it’s what I studied. I was asked for my credentials.
It’s relevant because my point was that we are not identical. There are now trillions upon trillions of bases of DNA sequence available to back that assertion.
You don’t believe that there is a molecular basis for addiction? That the specific sequence and expression profile of the receptors involved can and do differ, leading to different outcomes for some?
As a molecular biologist I do…because I’ve read and understood the data.
Are you here to argue that the fault lies with the user rather than the underlying biology?
Show me peer reviewed data.
Which part of citing a meta-analysis of the problem is not deferring to an expert in the field?
If your host said they couldn’t be trusted around knives, would you deliberately leave yours where they could access it?
Yeah, that was my point…what’s yours?!?
Go ahead. List it for the rest of the class…being wrong simply means I learned something.
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I have family members who did exactly this… more than one… and more than that that aren’t family members who did this. I’ve been in rooms with 75 year old women who got hooked on dope because their doctors cut off their presciptions.
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