Shiva is simply a force of Nature, which includes Marijuana/Bhang, and can not be denied. It is part of human culture from all time periods and from India and Europe to the New World.
Lab Testing
Most people do not realize that when a lab comes back with results that a plant is 25% THC or 20% THC or 15% THC or 15% CBD, it does not mean that the plant is 25% THC or 15% CBD, that would mean that 1/4 of the plant's makeup is THC. THC is a single Molecule. What they are saying is that the standardized Extraction, that is used for all other plants, was used and 25% of that was THC. Most people don't really understand what goes on in a lab whenever they are determining THC content, or CBD content, or the THCv content, or the THCa, or the various other Cannabinoids, but what they are doing is a very standard process that is done with thousands of other plants all over the world every day. If you know the Melting Point of a Molecule you can actually use a process called Fractal Distillation to take 1 single molecule out of a plant.
Extractions
Enfleurage
"Enfleurage" is the process of capturing plant fragrances (terpenes, etc), alkaloids, and essential oils, in animal fats or plant oils. So when someone puts Cannabis into Cooking Oil, or into Coconut Oil, or into Tallow, or into Lard, or into Vegetable Glycerin, or into Milk, or into Grease, or into Olive Oil, or into Peanut Oil, or into Canola Oil, etc, this is called Enfleurage. It can also be done with other plants, such as Violets (which contain Ionone) or Roses (which contain Damascone) and it can be done either Hot or Cold. With Marijuana this has colloquially been called Cannabutter and is usually done hot but not hot enough to burn away the THC (THC boils away at 314.6°F/157°C, this is also how brownies or candy and other edibles are made), the Milk mixture is used in Hindu Festivals and Ceremonies and is called Bhang.
Concrete
A Basic Solvent extraction, where a plant is left to sit in Alcohol, or Naphtha, or Acetone, then the plant material is filtered out and then the Solvent is left to evaporate (similar to if you were to make a very strong tea, then let all the water evaporate), is called "Concrete". With Marijuana this is known as Hash, the original forms of Hashish were not made with Solvents, but the word Hash has now been used to define most extractions of THC that aren't in food products. Lemonene has been used as a Solvent in some Marijuana extractions and there is a thin film of Lemonene left after the evaporation, and the additional Terpene (Lemonene) being present in the extraction, actually makes it stronger. There is something now called "Live Resin" in which Terpenes such as Lemonene, or Caryophyllene or Pineol are added back to Hash that has been through a vacuum purge. Hashish is an Arabic word, the Sanskrit word is Charas. The word used for every other plant, which also includes Marijuana, is "Concrete". In the Bhang video above, what is actually done is Concrete is created first then it is used with milk to create a Bhang Enfleurage. Many concretes can be used as an incense.
Absolute
The easiest way to describe how Perfume is made is Rose Perfume in the context of the country Turkey. Pure rose extract is known as "Rose Otto", this contains all of the major smell compounds found in Roses, 2 main ones are b-Damascone and Phenethyl Alcohol. But those are not extremely important for you to remember if you want to make the perfume.
This part is important to remember, there are tons of Rose species but the 2 species of roses that have the most Terpenes and have been bred for this are Rosa Damascena and Rosa Centifolia. Damascena is what they have mainly historically used in Turkey and Centifolia has been historically used in Egypt.
Turkey probably has the biggest Rose distillery in the world, and the way they extract the Roses is the same way Jack Daniels or Bacardi make their stuff, just with no Fermentation stage like you have with Alcohol. They use a still just like you have probably seen in movies and stuff where people make Moonshine, like Brass tubing and everything. They put the roses in water or make rose tea, then put that in the side that they heat up. And on the colder side they collect the Distillate, which is the Rose Otto. Most places also do another run, where they remove the Otto they collected on the cold side and then add more water to the roses and run them through again. Then they put the Otto in the heating side and run it through again. If you get a Separatory funnel you can skip all this and just leave it over night and let it separate.
Heavy Duty Extraction Still
Separatory Funnel
So if you do this with Roses you have "Rose Otto", if you do this with any other plant it is usually called "Absolute", and this is Perfume Grade plant extraction. The Separatory allows you to go further in extractions, as you can let it sit and separate out different layers, or you can get a Polar and Non-Polar Solvent and force the creation of layers, and separate out the Polar and Non-Polar molecules. For example, you either want to let a Concrete dry out and do a "wash", or you add some kind of 99% alcohol (Ethanol, Isopropyl or Methanol) and let it separate. Then you will get the 2 layers, which you can gather the alcohol layer of. This would be Absolute. In the Marijuana world the route that has instead usually been taken is to take a can of Butane, and then put the plant material in a tube that has a filter on one end and a hole on the other, and then to blow the Butane through the tube and then let the Cannabinoids (THC) go through the filter and be collected in a glass or pyrex container, and then let the Butane evaporate either naturally or by putting it in a hot water bath (all of this is done outside, because evaporating Butane can explode). The Butan extraction is then put in a Vacuum purge system (like a Vacuum Chamber) and made into a solid material that resembles glass but is more flexible. That whole Butane process is not done with any other plant on any large scale as far as I am aware. Another extraction that is becoming common now is called Rosin and includes putting Marijuana in something that heats it and presses it, which results in a high grade hash, and different temperatures retrieve different Terpenes and byproducts, etc, so depending on what temperature you use you will get different colors of hash. Examples of ways to heat and press Marijuana include a Hair Straightener and Wax Paper meant for the oven, or a T-Shirt press oven thing, which you can use for large amounts of Marijuana.
This is how you determine the Cannabinoid content of a plant. When they say 25% THC or 20% THC or 15% THC or 15% CBD, they did the distilling process first (minus the Separatory Funnel, that is just a way to make things even more pure). Then used one of various methods, such as Gas Chromatography, to determine the contents of the Absolute.
If you make Marijuana Absolute, you can also do things like mix it with Calcium Hydroxide, or Acetic acid. This way you could form a Salt, instead of a sticky Material. You could also make Marijuana Esters, Peptides, etc. THC-O-Acetate and THC-O-Phosphate can be made, and it creates a Molecule that is reversed in Polarity and can dissolve in water.
Marijuana Creates Jobs and Saves Lives
Medical
Here are various research Papers that prove that Cannabinoids cure almost all forms of Cancer. It can also be used for various other Medical purposes (Chronic Pain, Seizures, Anorexia, etc)
General Cancer
https://www.researchgate.net/public...noids_as_Cell_Death_and_Anticancer_Modulators
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24427518_Cannabinoids_in_the_treatment_of_cancer
https://www.researchgate.net/public...eripheral_CB1CB2_Cannabinoid_Receptor_Ligands
Lung Cancer:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...astasis_via_intercellular_adhesion_molecule-1
Gliomas
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5892365_Cannabinoids_and_Gliomas
Melanoma
https://www.researchgate.net/public...CB1_Receptor_as_Drug_Target_in_Human_Melanoma
Breast Cancer
https://www.researchgate.net/public..._tumor_growth_and_metastasis_of_breast_cancer
FAAH Inhibitors
https://www.researchgate.net/public...nities_from_regulating_endocannabinoid_levels
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236250821_The_endocannabinoid_signaling_system_in_cancer
Taxes
Colorado made so much in taxes their first year going recreational ($76 Million) that they overshot their goal and triggered a Sheriff of Nottingham clause, which then returned money to people in the form of tax returns that year. Everyone in Colorado got a return, not just medical and recreational patients.
Jobs
Marijuana creates jobs. Not only does it create a place where people go to buy Marijuana, which involves front desks staff, budtenders in the main room, and people rolling joints and making hash, as well as sometimes people making glass items. But also trimmers, who will travel, for example, from Texas to California just to trim buds. Then there is an entire industry that pops up around it. The glass making, seed sales, hash making, edible making (brownies, ice cream, candy, etc), vaporizer sales, vape oil hash making, Marijuana breeding, fertilizer making and sales, HPS and CFL light sales, hydroponic farming sales, regular agricultural sales (bone meal, blood meal, compost, etc), festivals, etc etc etc.
Breeding Marijuana Strains with African Genetics
But what I am doing is breeding Plants with a higher THCv content, so the goal in this series is to breed a strain or multiple strains that have higher levels of THCv, meaning that whenever an Enfleurage or Concrete or Absolute are made, they will contain high levels of THCv. Products that are higher in THCv will not cause munchies, meaning it can possibly be used in combination with dieting to lose weight, and THCv can also be used to help treat diabetes. To create high THCv strains I will be breeding well Established medical strains with high THCv African Landrace strains, and some of the medical strains I chose are also decedents of Skunk #1 meaning that they are THCv prone, and will help make the THCv more prevalent than other Cannabinoids.
Here are my plants after just a few weeks in:
OG Kush
This Indica dominant strain is one of the most popular strain in South California and it has become the #1 in the U.S.A. It has been obtained by crossing Lemon Thai / Pakistani with the famous ChemDawg. The resulting cross has a world class flavor, like lemon mixed with gasoline. Dinafem's OG Kush is a very powerful, but still gentle and pleasant smoke with a long-lasting brainy high and a nice physical tingle She grows very beautiful with light green leaves producing a nice yield with impressive, dense, dark green, resin covered nugs.
Reaches THC levels that verge on 24% and 0.23% CBD
Type: Feminized
Generic/Composition: Indica Predominance
Flowering days: 55 days
THC: High
Production: High
Outdoor height: up to 3m
Hindu Kush
This pure Indica seed-strain originates in the Hindu Kush - a mountain range that has been home to legendary cannabis varieties for centuries. After many generation of selective breeding they were brought to the west. This is a perfect plant for indoor crops with its very consistent and uniform seedlings. Its potency is from medium to high with typical Indica body stone. Compact, chunky, fast-flowering pure indica from the Hindu Kush mountains. Plants are robust and sturdy. Ideal for beginners!
Genetics: Hindu Kush (Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, China)
Flowering Time : 45-50 Days
Type : Indica
Area : Indoor
Cheese Bomb
The Cheese has been one of the most popular marijuana seeds on the market in the recent years. To obtain Edam Bomb AKA Cheese Bomb, Bomb Seeds crossed an original Cheese clone taken from the UK with a Bomb #1/Bomb #3 cross. The presence of Bomb genetics has created a perfect breeding match. The Cheese genetics have not been compromised; rather this has meant a greatly improved yield and potency that Bomb strains are known for. The result is fat buds with a classic cheese taste and smell coupled with a long lasting, physical high. Under most indoor conditions this plant will stay short. Cheese weed seeds have become a mainstay top 10 in Amsterdam coffee shops making Edam Bomb AKA Cheese Bomb a must for commercial and connoisseur users alike.
Type: Indica/Sativa (60/40)
Indoor/Outdoor: Indoor/Outdoor
Plant Height: Medium (90-140cm)
Indoor Flowering: 6-8 Weeks
Harvest Outdoor: Sep-Oct
Yield: High (400-550g/m²)
Stoned/High: Stoned yet high
Early Durban
Durban Poison and Skunk #1 strains crossbreeding resulted in Early Durban marijuana hybrid birth. She is sativa dominant strain that is easy to cultivate and maintain although branch support is advised because of the huge heavy colas that can grow like vines. Her crop grows tall elegant, with lots of branches held by a thin strong stem and light green shaded long, fat leaves. The flowers of this cannabis don't smell except if you shake them then expect prudent, old school skunk perfume and flavour. Early Durban is perfect choice for indoor as well as outdoor cultivation and can be used for profitable or private usage. She is great producer of top cannabis with extremely strong cerebral/physical stone. It is one of the best Seedsman’s seller.
Yield: 450gr/m2
Harvest early October if seeded in May/June
South African Kwazulu
World of Seeds Landraces South African Kwazulu is a wild variety 100% sativa coming from North of Drakenbergs range . It has been cultivated by the Zulus for several generations when governed by Shaka, one of the most significant warriors & farmers in African history. The legend says that this plant was used by the Zulus in warrior riots before the first attack in 1879. South African Kwazulu islong lasting & energetic effects gave warriors increased strength to defeat the British army, which was both larger & better armed. South African Kwazulu is one of the strains more resistant to mould & pests. Its genetics allow it's cannabis seeds to be cultivated indoors & outdoors at European latitudes. It has low harvesting time, and sweet flavour and energetic effects. The legends says that South African Kwazulu is one of the more resistant to plagues and fungus and its genetic lets adaptation as indoor cropping as outdoor cropping in European latitudes.
African Buzz
African genetics have an exotic savour and fascinating effects, that's why they are some of the most popular and enjoyed around the globe. African Buzz is a variation of the Malawi Gold - an amazing and fast growing 100% sativa strain. She is a pure sativa marijuana strain that has a rapid vegetative phase in optimal conditions. African Buzz cannabis seeds require around 11 weeks of flowering during which its typical structure of long branches begins to show. The producer of this great Cannabis Seed has listed the preferred environment as Indoor/Greenhouse environments. Good yielder with immense cerebral buzz.
Green Crack
American Genetics. Green Crack from BlimBurn Seeds range is another legend straight from the USA. This hybrid is on of the strongest Sativas in the cannabis seeds world. The effect is energetic, sharp and cerebral what makes it perfect for day time use. The smell and taste is sweet and fruity. Green Crack produces light green or purple buds fully coated with crystal. In this variety you may found two phenotyoes : Indica dominant or Sativa dominant.
Flowering Time : 49-56 Days
Sex : Feminized
Area : Indoor and Outdoor
Sour Diesel
American Genetics. Sour Diesel is another medicinal variety created by BlimBurn Seeds by crossing the best Sativas - Chemdawg, Northern Light and Skunk #1. The effect is truly medicinal and perfect for therapeutic use after chemotherapy, pain relief, anxiety, sclerosis, glucoma and depression. Sour Diesel produces massive yields of compact buds of a light green colour. This hybrid has short flowering stage and stretchy first few weeks.
Genetics : Chemdawg x Northern Lights x Skunk #1
Flowering Time : 70-77 Days
Sex : Feminized
Area : Indoor and Outdoor
Malawi
ACE Seeds Malawi is probably the strongest pure sativa line in the market. It has a incredible production of huge trichomes, its flower density and its devastating power knocks down the hardest and most nervous smoker, this quality turns her into a cannabinoids bomb. Malawi's flowers shows golden colouration in the late maturing stages, it is recommended to breeders looking for a powerful and high yielding sativa. It's tall and has long branches with spicy and woody flavours on the tongue spreading through the palate with floral and orange tones. It contains a deep background of resins and oils and it has a very powerful, long-lasting and therapeutic effect. It offers a strong, dense and psychedelic high in the beginning, followed by a relaxing stage that leads to a physical and mental hibernation.
Genetics: 100% Malawi Sativa, Central Africa
Typ: Sativa 100%
Sex: Fem/Reg
Grow Area: Indoor/Outdoor/Greenhouse
Flowering Time: 11-14 weeks
Flowering Period: Late October - Early November
Yield: Medium 200-450g
Height: Medium - 100 - 150cm
White Rhino
Nirvana Seeds White Rhino is a powerful F1 hybrid of White Widow and a strong North American indica strain. White Rhino is suitable for medical applications because of its high THC content. The taste of its smoke is hashy and slightly harsh, a good bong smoke. The Canadian father of the Rhino is more indica than the White Widow father, creating a more dense and somewhat shorter plant. White Rhino is mostly suitable for indoor growing, its cannabis seeds normally flower in 8 weeks. Harvest outdoors should be done in October. The buzz is stoney and hits you hard.
The Next Advancement in Marijuana Technology:
https://steemit.com/marijuana/@marsresident/the-next-advancement-in-marijuana-technology
Breeding Marijuana Strains with African Genetics, part 1:
https://steemit.com/cannabis/@marsresident/breeding-marijuana-strains-with-african-genetics-part-1