One of the main problems is that
separating the THC from CBD to make PURE CBD is a convoluted, complicated process, it is not like making simple BHO. For large scale separation of the THC from CBD, it would require a huge infrastructure that is nowhere near ready.... And even if that infrastructure was in place, there is not enough plant material in the world to feed into the infrastructure
to supply 100% of the demand! Right now all the parents with kids who are growing clone-only 20% ACDC or R4 clone-only
still have/want to remove the miniscule amount of THC. And this is a a crude convoluted backyard process,
but it works! One of the newbie grower dads growing it for his son is getting
27:0.x under LED's, and he never grew before. Somebody in his town mentored him to dial in the plant so it will have huge CBD amount, that way he can have constant supply for his son and not depend on anybody but himself.
I am oversimplifying it, but hope you get this point:
-Pure CBD is good with Epilepsy, AilmentA, etc. People with epilepsy are
not helped by THC (or at maybe the parents don't want the kids stoned)
-Pure THC is good for Brain Cancer X, AilmentB, etc.
-A combo of THC:CBD is good for AutismW, AilmentX, AilmentY, etc.
Like Hbrew said, 99% of cannatonic, cbdcrew, and charlottes web seeds will give a
crappy 1:1 ratio of CBD:THC. This is not acceptable to the parents of these kids. They need the clones of AC/DC or R4, or they are screwed and getting their kids stoned. Thank god for kind hearted selfless people like
@homebrew420 who are selfing the R4 so it could eventually grown from seed, this way it can spread worldwide easier than spreading clones! And of course for large scale agriculture only these selfed seeds will be feasible (unless we want to manually transplant ten million clones into large fields)...
Growing 1:1 ratio seed (or even worse hemp) is a total waste of time on large agriculture scale because the process to separate the THC from CBD is so convoluted,
AND the total yield of CBD is useless.
Since the demand for pure CBD is incredibly high, and our governments are so retardedly S L O W the only immediate feasible solution is to
encourage people with these ailments to grow it themselves. And help them grow it for free!! If the clones/seeds these parents get are only lousy schwaggy 5% cbd, the patients family would have to grow a LOT of plants to keep their kid medicated and not have to worry about "running out".
Lately I have been volunteering a couple hours a day helping newbies grow on RIU. Lots of dumb questions there, but I don't care... I don't care if these clones get in cash croppers hands, who cares? I don't care or ask why they are growing, the more people who know how to grow at home, the more KB we all have....
Good thread. Thx...
Anyways, that is my 2 cents, I have a good friend with horrible case of PTSD in New Mexico, he gets severe panic attacks if there is any THC in it. He recently smoked this 6:0.5 cannatonic and for the first time felt "normal", no panic attack: