Tainted pot to be seized by state in Colorado

[OGIS]

Good! I have no problem with this. Amazing, isn't it? When you make something legal it improves quality control and consumer safety? Government doing its job.

Hickenlooper issues executive order to declare tainted pot a threat to public

Any marijuana grown with unapproved pesticides would be removed from commerce and destroyed

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday issued an executive order telling state agencies that any marijuana grown with unapproved pesticides is a threat to public safety and should be removed from commerce and destroyed.

The order is Hickenlooper's first word on a months-old controversy over pesticide use to grow cannabis and a more aggressive approach than the half-dozen recalls by Denver heath officials have put on thousands of contaminated products, some of it later allowed back into commerce.

more >>> http://www.denverpost.com/marijuana/...ce=infinite-up

[Don]

Big difference from what it was. I remember when the U.S. government sponsored spraying some chemical on pot plants in Mexico to kill it. It didn't kill the plants, only contaminated them. The growers had no problem sending that pot to us. Who knows how many people smoked that contaminated stuff.

[Captain Obvious]

$#@!ing potheads...

The state only gives a $#@! about revenues. You could smoke asbestos for all they care as long as you're paying the taxes on it.

[valley ranch]

I remember that, they sprayed Paraquat, they called it, on pot gardens.
Facts About Paraquat

What paraquat is

• Paraquat is a toxic chemical that is widely used as an herbicide (plant killer), primarily for weed and grass control.
• In the United States, paraquat is available primarily as a liquid in various strengths. The US Environmental Protection Agency classifies paraquat as “restricted use.” This means that it can be used only by people who are licensed applicators.
• Because paraquat is highly poisonous, the form that is marketed in the United States has a blue dye to keep it from being confused with beverages such as coffee, a sharp odor to serve as a warning, and an added agent to cause vomiting if someone drinks it. Paraquat from outside the United States may not have these safeguards added.

http://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/paraq...sics/facts.asp

[valley ranch]

US Gov. Admitted to Spraying “Paraquat” Poison on Marijuana in 1980’s


n the 1980’s the director of the Drug Enforcement Administration admitted to using a poison named “Paraquat” on Marijuana crops, potentially harmful for drug users and the entire surrounding ecosystem.

By JG Vibes
dev-test.intellihub.com
April 12, 2013
Yesterday i published an article on the history of prohibition, discussing how the US Government added poison to industrial alcohol
to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government added more and they killed 10,000 people.

I get an Error 404 on the above. site no longer active.


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Many of our readers sent in emails and made comments informing us that a similar case occurred in the past few decades, where the government poisoned marijuana crops with a chemical named “Paraquat”. This was admitted by the DEA as reported by the New York Times:

The director of the Drug Enforcement Administration said today that the Government would use the herbicide paraquat and two others in a stepped-up campaign to eradicate domestically grown marijuana.The use of paraquat, banned from national forests in 1983 because of environmental concerns, was announced by the director, John C. Lawn, at a news conference.
A drug agency spokesman, Cornelius Dougherty, subsequently said that, in light of a 1983 ruling by Federal Judge June Green, paraquat would be sprayed for marijuana eradication on private land, not on public property. The other two herbicides cited by Mr. Lawn, 2,4D and glyphosate, are not involved in the ruling and could be used on public lands, a spokesman said.

Jay Feldman, coordinator of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, said: ”The other two chemicals don’t have the same restrictions, but while that may be complying with the letter of the law, it is violating the principles that protect national lands to ensure the protection of wildlife habitats and recreation areas.”

www.intellihub.com/us-gov-admitted-to-spraying-paraquat-poison-on-marijuana-in-1980s/

[OGIS]

Big difference from what it was. I remember when the U.S. government sponsored spraying some chemical on pot plants in Mexico to kill it. It didn't kill the plants, only contaminated them. The growers had no problem sending that pot to us. Who knows how many people smoked that contaminated stuff.

Yeah, it was Paraquat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat

There was, apparently, more smoke than fire when it came to the smoking danger:

"During the late 1970s, a controversial program sponsored by the US government sprayed paraquat on cannabis fields in Mexico.^[24] Since much of this cannabis was subsequently smoked by Americans, the US government's "Paraquat Pot" program stirred much debate. Perhaps in an attempt to deter people from using cannabis, representatives of the program warned that spraying rendered the crop unsafe to smoke. However, a 1995 study found that "no lung or other injury in cannabis users has ever been attributed to paraquat contamination".^[25] Also a United States Environmental Protection Agency manual states: "... toxic effects caused by this mechanism have been either very rare or nonexistent. Most paraquat that contaminates cannabis is pyrolyzed during smoking to dipyridyl, which is a product of combustion of the leaf material itself (including cannabis) and presents little toxic hazard."<sup>[26]"

Edibles, though, not so nice:</sup>

"Toxicity: Pure paraquat, when ingested, is highly toxic to mammals, including humans, potentially leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Although there are no specific antidotes, fuller's earth or activated charcoal is an effective treatment if taken in time. There have been some successful cases of using cyclophosphamide (Endoxan) to treat paraquat poisoning.^[27] Death may occur up to 30 days after ingestion. Diluted paraquat used for spraying is less toxic; thus, the greatest risk of accidental poisoning is during mixing and loading paraquat for use.^[8]

In acute toxicity studies using laboratory animals, paraquat has been shown to be highly toxic by the inhalation route and has been placed in Toxicity Category I (the highest of four levels) for acute inhalation effects. However, the EPA has determined that particles used in agricultural practices (400 to 800 μm) are well beyond the respirable range and therefore inhalation toxicity is not a toxicological endpoint of concern. Paraquat is toxic (Category II) by the oral route and moderately toxic (Category III) by the dermal route. Paraquat will cause moderate to severe eye irritation and minimal dermal irritation, and has been placed in Toxicity Categories II and IV (slightly toxic) respectively for these effects.^[28]

Even a single swig, immediately spat out, can cause death from fibrous tissue developing in the lungs, leading to asphyxiation.^[29]


One of the characters in the infamous British public information film Apaches (1977) dies hours after accidentally swallowing a small amount; the paraquat in the film is contained in a receptacle similar to a whisky bottle.


According to the Centers for Disease Control, ingesting paraquat causes symptoms such as liver, lung, heart, and kidney failure within several days to several weeks that can lead to death up to 30 days after ingestion. Those who suffer large exposures are unlikely to survive. Chronic exposure can lead to lung damage, kidney failure, heart failure, and oesophageal strictures.^[30] Accidental deaths and suicides from paraquat ingestion are relatively common. For example, there have been 18 deaths in Australia from paraquat poisoning since 2000.^[31] Long-term exposures to paraquat would most likely cause lung and eye damage, but reproductive/fertility damage was not found by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in their review."

It's generally not a nice chemical:


"Use in suicide and murder:A large majority (93 percent) of fatalities from paraquat poisoning are suicides, which occur mostly in developing countries.^[32] For instance, in Samoa from 1979–2001, 70 percent of suicides were by paraquat poisoning. Trinidad and Tobago is particularly well known for its incidence of suicides involving the use of Gramoxone (commercial name of paraquat). In southern Trinidad, particularly in Penal, Debe from 1996–1997, 76 percent of suicides were by paraquat, 96 percent of which involved the over-consumption of alcohol such as rum.^[33] Fashion celebrity Isabella Blow committed suicide using paraquat in 2007. Paraquat is widely used as a suicide agent in third-world countries because it is widely available at low cost. Further, the toxic dose is low (10 mL or 2 teaspoons is enough to kill). Campaigns exist to control or even ban paraquat, and there are moves to restrict its availability by requiring user education and the locking up of paraquat stores.
The indiscriminate paraquat murders, which occurred in Japan in 1985, were carried out using paraquat as a poison.


Paraquat, as the weedkiller Gramoxone, was used in the UK in 1981 by Susan Barber to poison the gravy of her husband Michael's pie. She was convicted of murder in November 1982, maintaining throughout that she had not intended to kill him.^[34]

Parkinson's disease

In 2011, a US National Institutes of Health study showed a link between paraquat use and Parkinson's disease in farm workers.^[35] A co-author of the paper said that paraquat increases production of certain oxygen derivatives that may harm cellular structures, and that people who used paraquat, or other pesticides with a similar mechanism of action, were more likely to develop Parkinson's.^[5] Paraquat-induced toxicity in rats has also been linked to Parkinson's-like neurological degenerative mechanisms.^[36] A study by the Buck Institute for Research on Aging showed a connection between exposure to paraquat and iron in infancy and mid-life Parkinson's in laboratory mice.^[37]

Paraquat is structurally similar to MPP+, a known fast-acting inducer of Parkinson's disease in primate brains. The chloride of MPP+ was sold under the trade name Cyperquat.
Paraquat also induces oxidative stress in invertebrates such as Drosophila melanogaster. Paraquat-fed flies suffer early-onset mortality and significant increases in superoxide dismutase activity.^[38]"

[OGIS]

$#@!ing potheads...

The state only gives a $#@! about revenues. You could smoke asbestos for all they care as long as you're paying the taxes on it.

did you skip your meds today?

[OGIS]

US Gov. Admitted to Spraying “Paraquat” Poison on Marijuana in 1980’s


n the 1980’s the director of the Drug Enforcement Administration admitted to using a poison named “Paraquat” on Marijuana crops, potentially harmful for drug users and the entire surrounding ecosystem.

By JG Vibes
dev-test.intellihub.com
April 12, 2013
Yesterday i published an article on the history of prohibition, discussing how the US Government added poison to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government added more and they killed 10,000 people.
Many of our readers sent in emails and made comments informing us that a similar case occurred in the past few decades, where the government poisoned marijuana crops with a chemical named “Paraquat”. This was admitted by the DEA as reported by the New York Times:

The director of the Drug Enforcement Administration said today that the Government would use the herbicide paraquat and two others in a stepped-up campaign to eradicate domestically grown marijuana.The use of paraquat, banned from national forests in 1983 because of environmental concerns, was announced by the director, John C. Lawn, at a news conference.
A drug agency spokesman, Cornelius Dougherty, subsequently said that, in light of a 1983 ruling by Federal Judge June Green, paraquat would be sprayed for marijuana eradication on private land, not on public property. The other two herbicides cited by Mr. Lawn, 2,4D and glyphosate, are not involved in the ruling and could be used on public lands, a spokesman said.

Jay Feldman, coordinator of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, said: ”The other two chemicals don’t have the same restrictions, but while that may be complying with the letter of the law, it is violating the principles that protect national lands to ensure the protection of wildlife habitats and recreation areas.”

www.intellihub.com/us-gov-admitted-to-spraying-paraquat-poison-on-marijuana-in-1980s/

I would like to see these people arrested and prosecuted.

[valley ranch]

Paraquat and Glyphosate are very dangerous and harmful.

[valley ranch]

I remember a lady telling her son:"I'd rather you were dead than smoking that stuff!"

Never could understand that!