Marijuana and Divergent Thinking

Trog
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Marijuana and Divergent Thinking May 19, 2014 9:31:42 GMT

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Post by Trog on May 19, 2014 9:31:42 GMT

Marijuana and Divergent Thinking

The hemp plants secret to success has been to evolve a mechanism to protect itself from animals that would otherwise eat it.

The active ingredients in the plant cause hallucinations.

The story goes like this:

1. animal finds plant.
2. animal starts to eat plant.
3. animal can’t eat much of the plant before it starts to see stars.
4. animal loses interest in plant and wonders off.
5. animal comes around and has little memory of eating plant.
6. animal can’t create mental connections of where it last saw the plant.
7. on average the plant does better than its rivals in the natural selection race.

So the active ingredients of marijuana are designed to cause memory loss and prevent associations that would remind its potential predators where there might be a meal.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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Marijuana and Divergent Thinking May 19, 2014 17:19:36 GMT

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Post by cjm on May 19, 2014 17:19:36 GMT

I feel marijuana is a threat to alcohol!!

I have seen this free association thing in some of our workers when they are high. Their *conversation* is utterly incomprehensible. It is impossible to give them instructions of any kind.

In SA marijuana is a way of life for many of the hued. One could almost say that the plant is indigenous - which it is not as far as I can tell. But it has been around for very long - perhaps even before Van Riebeeck. In earlier years it was not a prohibited substance - in fact I was told that it was fed locally to the draught animals later in the day - whereafter they got a second wind.

It is amazing how widespread its use is in the US. I have seen some magazines from Michigan where every second advert is marijuana related.

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Marijuana and Divergent Thinking May 26, 2014 7:10:11 GMT

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Post by cjm on May 26, 2014 7:10:11 GMT

www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/business/international/when-cannabis-goes-corporate.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

International Business
When Cannabis Goes Corporate

Hershey stopped producing chocolate in Smiths Falls, Ontario, six years ago. The work went to Mexico, but the factory remains, along with reminders of the glory days: A sign that once directed school buses delivering children for tours. A fading, theme-park-style entrance that marks what used to be the big attraction — a “Chocolate Shoppe” that sold about $4 million of broken candy and bulk bars a year.

The once ever-present sweet smell of chocolate is gone, too. In the high-ceilinged warehouse, where stacks of Hershey’s bars and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups once awaited shipment, the nose now picks up a different odor: the woody, herbal aroma of 50,000 marijuana plants.

Clinical, climate-controlled rooms with artificial sunlight house rows upon rows of plants at various stages of growth. In the “mother room,” horticulturalists use cuttings to start new plants. The “flowering rooms” are flooded with intense light 12 hours a day to nurture nearly grown plants in strains with vaguely aristocratic names like Argyle, Houndstooth and Twilling.

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