#270 - DNA Expert Warns of Mysterious New 'Turbo Cancer' Outbreak | Kevin McKernan

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What is Florida's Amendment 3 about?

Danny Jones 0:07
We were just having a great conversation about the amendment. I think it was three, the cannabis one. And I was telling you my understanding of it. The picture DeSantis painted about it was that there was one big company that was going to control all the weed. And this was somehow going to be bad. Yes, this is Trulieve.
Kevin McKernan 0:24
Trulieve, okay. The bill was written – perhaps it could have written the bill a little bit better. But what I don't think and what I tried to do is weigh in. I have some connections to DeSantis and Joe Latipo from some of the work we've done in the COVID space. And I don't think they appreciate that the federal government just kneecaps all the cannabis companies a few years ago by basically legalizing hemp, which I'm all for. I think hemp should be legal. Right. What they've done is they've created a two-tier regulatory structure where the people who are growing hemp don't have to safety test it, don't have to have the same labeling, they don't have to have licenses, they don't have to have cameras, they don't have to grow indoors. I mean, they don't have banking restrictions like the cannabis field has.
Kevin McKernan 1:10
So what's happening in the cannabis field is everyone is kind of moving their business out of the regulated market and into the hemp market and selling it across state lines. Because if it's hemp, it can go across state lines. So what you'll find in Florida, you can go to any smoke shop down here and see people are selling THCP, HHC. These are all like alternative cannabinoids that we don't know much about because they're technically not cannabis.
Danny Jones 1:34
Or like the Delta-9s and all those.
Kevin McKernan 1:36
Delta-8 is one. So if you take CBD, you can take CBD, which comes out of hemp and is not psychoactive. Very, very helpful compound for epilepsy, a lot of different diseases. But you can acid catalyze that into Delta-8. which is psychoactive. And then that is technically derived from hemp. And you can sell that in an unregulated fashion across state lines everywhere. And so everyone is sneaking forms of psychoactive THC through the hemp bill into all of these states that only have medical because there's a rec market there that wants it. And so the whole Amendment 3 thing is a real kabuki theater because they were kind of shutting down moving the medical market here that is actually using tested and tracked material, moving that into the rec market so that you would have tested and tracked material in the rec market. And now that that's blocked, the hemp market is going to just swell in here and take over.

What diseases are linked to THC?

Kevin McKernan 2:25
And I wouldn't be surprised if truly these other companies just say, screw it, throw in the towel and start calling their stuff hemp. and selling it. And then they don't have the same cost structure, testing oversight, and understanding of what's actually in the product. So net, I think it's worse for consumers what they did because they don't have... The one selling aspect... of a regulated and tested market is that you know what's in the product. It's that they test it. They know there's no heavy metals, there's no pesticides. You know what the cannabinoid concentration actually is, and that's in fact THC and not some synthetic cannabinoid like spice that they popped in. All of those type of kitchen chemists sell things through the hemp market.
Kevin McKernan 3:07
So even though things are labeled as hemp, you don't really know if it's even Delta-8. Sometimes it can be THC acetate, it can be THCP, it can be HHC. There's a long list of compounds that we don't really have thousands of years of biochemistry and toxicology on. So, yeah, it's a bit ironic. The reason I know Joe Latipo is that We ended up discovering this contamination of the vaccines. And ironically, we would have never discovered that if we didn't have recreational cannabis in Massachusetts, which is a very bizarre story. But that whole discovery came about because we were sequencing cannabis plants to try to understand hop latent viroid. hop late environment is a small rna molecule that infects the cannabis industry and it just devastates grows like 40 loss and crop yields right um and so what we were doing is taking these plants that were infected and looking at their rna signature throughout time to see what happens when this thyroid infects the plant why does it kill it like what is the 40 loss by what genes does it like turn down what genes does it activate where is it in the plant um

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