U.S. Federal Marijuana Farm To Offer New Strains

[n2doc]

At the only facility allowed to produce marijuana under federal law, government growers are beginning to expand their selection of cannabis.

The NIDA-sponsored farm is located at the University of Mississippi and is operated by a team of nine. Last year, the National Institute on Drug Abuse paid the university $847,000 to run the facility, which provides cannabis for researchers across the country.

For decades, the farm has only produced a narrow range of plants – varieties with high THC and low CBD levels, according to Mahmoud Elsohly, PhD, director of the NIDA Marijuana Project.

But with interest in medical marijuana taking off, Dr. Elsohly and his team are hoping to offer new strains, especially those with higher levels of the non-psychoactive ingredient cannabidiol (CBD).

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http://www.leafscience.com/2014/03/25/u-s-federal-marijuana-farm-offer-new-strains/

[htuttle]

1. About time...

They've grown nothing but notoriously bad schwag for decades. It's been so bad, it's made real medical testing with it nearly impossible.

[tridim]

2. Or, let the geniuses who risked their freedom to develop these amazing strains, grow the strains.

As it is, these new strains were developed by people who still risk prison every minute of every day, while the feds get to grow them for profit. Lovely.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Dr Elsohly and his $847,000 team hope to mimic what those they call felons have

developed. It's so pitiful. All those years and millions and that team never came up with these treatments, the Medical Marijuana Community did so for free and while under persecution, prosecution and duress for the act of healing children.
Pathetic.

[RainDog]

4. It is really pathetic

This whole situation is another one of those embarrassing moments in American history when fear and prejudice have destroyed lives for no valid reason.