Kevin McKernan
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 5 Dec
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The reality is they already have that problem. They probably don't have the source of it.
It's out of control. And it's not – what frightens me about that is no one's screening those things for pesticides, for metals. And the whole vape industry is a very new industry from cannabis plants. Like when you pull and extract these things out of cannabis plants, the pesticides tend to enrich more than the cannabinoids. Right. So you'll get pens that are just loaded with pesticides.
Like that whole valley crisis, that wasn't vitamin E acetate. The what crisis? There was a Valley crisis right before COVID that many people forgot about because COVID came in and destroyed everyone's lives. But the Valley crisis was a vaping crisis that killed a bunch of people. They had ground glass capacities in the lungs, all these things that sound like COVID.
But it was about six months before COVID hit. And it was pinned down to some nicotine and THC pens. And eventually the CDC said, well, about 70% of these things have vitamin E acetate. It must be vitamin E acetate. Vitamin E acetate has been in vape pens for 10 years. It's not vitamin E acetate. It's probably pesticides they're not looking for.
And a couple of testing labs we know in the space were finding high levels of pesticides in those pens. And those pesticides, the nature of them means that they can be in parts per million, maybe parts per billion in cannabis. You put them through an extraction system and they're in parts per thousand. Like the cannabinoids might enrich threefold in the pens.
Like they might go from the plant from 20% to 80%. maybe 60% in the pens, but you can see the pesticides go up 100-fold in concentration. You don't want to have an unregulated vape pen thing out there when the cannabis field right now
has two different regulatory structures, one where you can grow outdoor hemp and no one can really QC it or does QC it, and you can load it with pesticides, doesn't have to go through safety testing, and ends up sold into gas stations outside of whether Amendment 3 votes yes or no. So Florida is loaded with this.
You can go to all types of places here that sell pens that have no safety testing on them.
That's actual THC. And usually that stuff is more expensive, too, because the regulatory structure is probably overboard on that front because they have to grow it all indoors with lights. I mean, if you look at Colorado's grid, I don't know if it's still true today, but earlier on when they legalized something like two to four percent of electrical grid in Colorado was going to cannabis lights.
So like, you know, growing this indoors is stupid, particularly down here. Right. So that, that, that, that creates overhead. So if that bill passed, you still wouldn't be allowed to grow your own. That's, that's, that's a legitimate complaint. Like there shouldn't be, you should have home grow. You should be able to do that. Just like you can brew beer at home.
And the reality is most people who do go, go at home, they don't turn it into a freaking plant. Yeah.
No, no. Yeah. You can grow one or two plants and have plenty for yourself for a year. Like, you don't, you don't need to have an orchard of this stuff.
Yeah, that was a bad way, I think, for them to pitch it. It wasn't really necessarily honest that, oh, all the kids are going to start using it. Now, when we look in states that legalize, actually, it's the boomers that start using this stuff. They start using gummies and CBD and stuff for back pain and everything else.
There are actually several studies that they're showing that adolescent use goes down. It's no longer this taboo thing. And so I don't think that's a very strong case. Cannabinoid hypermesis is important. He brought that up. I'm glad Joe brought that up because that's the one area that gets overlooked in cannabis is that no one talks about that one disease.
And that one disease is actually well studied and well linked to THC. They tend to bring in schizophrenia, which is poorly linked. And I think they even said it fries brain cells. And no one in the cannabinoid space, that's just well understood that no, it's neurogenic. It's actually the opposite of that. It's actually gross.
If you have a stroke or if you are into MMA, you'll notice a lot of the MMA players. use CBD. And it's because you need a lipid soluble antioxidant in the brain when you get brain injury. So there's neural inflammation. The best thing for that is CBD. Really? It gets right through the blood brain barrier and is a very potent antioxidant and just dampens down the inflammation.
I think ketones is really good for that too. Yeah, ketogenic diets I see, I think there's probably some overlap in the pathways there. And likewise, the things that Jack was bringing up as well is a very interesting area of research as to where the actual cannabinoid chemistry overlaps with mitochondria. In the brain, 15% of the cannabinoid receptors are actually on mitochondria.
And in neuronal cells. So it's very much dialed into the energetics inside the brain and the metabolism in the brain is the whole endocannabinoid system. So it's an important area of the medical field that's frankly just been suppressed for decades. for longer than, you know, everyone got a good glimpse of what happens in medical suppression during COVID. Imagine that for 40 years.
That's what's been going on with cannabinoids is the pharmaceutical industry has been doing everything they can to suppress this because it's not a compound that they can exclusively own. And so if they even do bother to try and patent it to some degree and get it out like GW Pharma did,
They're then faced with the fact that there are hundreds of dispensaries around, thousands of dispensaries around the country that are going to sell it five times cheaper than their FDA-approved product. So they did this for epilepsy, which is Epidiolex. This is a CBD extract. Got it all the way through the FDA. It works great for duvet syndrome and seizures.
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