Israeli firm grows 'highless' marijuana

[azurnoir]

SAFED, Israel (Reuters) -- They grow in a secret location in northern Israel. A tall fence, security cameras and an armed guard protect them from criminals. A hint of their sweet-scented blossom carries in the air: rows and rows of cannabis plants, as far as the eye can see.

It is here, at a medical marijuana plantation atop the hills of the Galilee, where researchers say they have developed marijuana that can be used to ease the symptoms of some ailments without getting patients high.

"Sometimes the high is not always what they need. Sometimes it is an unwanted side effect. For some of the people it's not even pleasant," said Zack Klein, head of development at Tikun Olam, the company that developed the plant.

Cannabis has more than 60 constituents called cannabinoids. THC is perhaps the best known of those, less so for its medical benefits and more for its psychoactive properties that give people a "high" feeling

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[yellerpup]

1. Ditch weed.

Where is the market for that?

[madrchsod]

4. there were thousands of acres of that shit around here

during ww2 hemp was planted for the war effort. there was a rope plant several miles from here. during the 60`s people would cut all the ditch weed and sell it. if there was one thing to stop people from smoking grass it would be smoking ditch weed. in the mid 70`s my buddy sold farm chemicals that basically eradicated all the hemp plants for miles around.

[yellerpup]

5. Hemp is a useful plant

and it did used to grow free in great abundance. I think that it came in competition with lumber interests as a renewable resource to make paper and fell afoul of the newspaper moguls of the day who owned great tracts of forest that they intended to pulp. I'm not surprised the plants were wiped out chemically. They must have been interfering with someone's profits.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. That's just…well, perverse, dammit.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Actually, I would prefer that sometimes.

not most times, but sometimes