Comments on: Cannabis Cultivation, Carbon Budgets, and the Promise of Biochar

By: Martin W. Lewis

Martin W. Lewis — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:51:00 +0000

In reply to SirBedevere. Good points. I did not have time to look into these issue. It would not surprise me if wood tar turns out to have carcinogenic properties. I am certainly not eager to ingest it in any significant quantity, although I would like to take a small sip of tar liquor.

By: Martin W. Lewis

Martin W. Lewis — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:48:00 +0000

In reply to joseph. As far as I can tell, there is no way at all to tell is legal marijuana is responsibly grown. A rating system would be useful, but that seems a long way off. Excellent points about British Columbia. AFrom what I have read, almost all BC pot is indoor-grown, usually in large factory-like settings.

By: joseph

joseph — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:03:00 +0000

Really great articles, thanks for shining some (non-artificial) light on this issue! Question though: in places where marijuana is still illegal, is there a way for smokers to tell whether or not what they buy was made responsibly or not? I was also wondering if you could do a related article on British Colombia. BC seems to be caught up in all of this — it is/was a massive exporter of (indoor-grown?) pot to the US west coast, and it has tended to be seen as the bastion for environmentalism within Canada (it has the only Green member of parliament, for e.g.). I would love to know more about it.

By: SirBedevere

SirBedevere — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:00:00 +0000

I am always intrigued by statements like “wood tar is used in traditional Finnish medicine for its microbicidal qualities.” If the practitioner is distinguishing microbial problems from viral or fungal, for instance, how traditional is he? Use as a microbicide sounds like our contemporary explanation for a traditional practice, while the practitioner might have used it to fight infection (however explained) or disease in general (however explained).