New Species of Cannabis Discovered!

http://pot.tv/archive/shows/pottvshowse-3985.html
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As most of us know (but the guy in the clip doesn't) there were previously 3 known species of cannabis: Sativa, Indica, Ruderalis.

Scientists in Australia have just discovered a species of cannabis that can be used for hemp but also contains high amounts of THC. They named the new species 'Rasta'.
haha Cannabis Rasta...

thoughts?

 

Cant wait for it to come to the us.

 

cant wait till i get my hands on that!

 

are u sure this weed isnt from jamaica mon'!

 

ahahahaha 'rasta' ahah

i havnt heard about this

sif those aussis wouldnt tell their country

 

OMG STONER BILL HAS FUCKING RASTA PLANTS GROWINZG IN THE OUTBACK OF hsi own friggin country!?!!? are u kidding me, send me over some bill.. shit we all know bill will be getting his life time supply of rasta weed... dont hog it bill!, sharing is caring!!!

 

lol yeh they not onnly descovered the species, they spread teh seeds all over the country, and many landed in my backyard and are already 5 foot shrubs, with huge 3 foot long and 4 foot wide buds

 

hahahhahahahahaFUCK YOU lol

 

pics? id love to see that shit growing in my back yard.

 

Dupont is allready working on the formula but Monsato might beat them at.

 

maybe they keep it on the dl, sell it as hemp, and we can all smoke teh hemp we buy for cheeeap

 

god now I wish I lived in australia.

 

hey is this real or fake?

haha Cannabis Rasta, thats all cannabis!

 

why wouldn't they translate the english word rasta into a latin version or whatever for the taxonomic name? i mean, they've done it with other things, and with people's names, so why wouldn't it end up being something like Cannabis rastas or something wierd like that? lol

besides, what can be used for hemp is still usually sativa, i believe, and just grown to be tall and not very branchy, making it more useful for fiber and such, and under conditions and with genetics to discourage usable amounts of THC for being produced commercial hemp would just basically be a "strain" or strains of an already existing cannabis species. it's not it's own species at all. so theres some tall sativa plants growing up straight like commercial hemp yet producing usable thc levels....does this really count as a new species? it just sounds like its a sativa, to me. it makes perfect sense that you could breed a strain of sativa to grow in the manner of commercial hemp yet producing THC, it's just that if you're growing it for THC you want it as short and branchy as you can get to get the most sun to every square inch of it you can, and to keep it as discreet as possible, whereas with hemp you are using it for the fibers of the stalk and want it to grow tall and slender, but its still the same species with different consistant phenotypes....i dunno....this just sounds really fishy to me....i doubt it's a new species, but just a different manifestation of the sativa species than we have commonly seen in the past

 

oh man, ok, apart from all that he said "it looks like hemp but has a high level of thc, so you could smoke your shirt" and it was not apparent to me at least that it was a joke....if this guy actually believes this, then he's stupider than he looks. and apart from that, he said there were only two "types" of cannabis, one for hemp and one for thc, but thats rediculous because he said implied that the two are different species and that the third looked like hemp but all parts of it could be smoked like pot. this is just stupid, we all know high levels of THC can occur in both indica and sativa, and that the DNA of sativa and commercial hemp can't be that different seeing as they're the same fucking species. this whole thing looks, well, like a terrible mistake or fabrication. i guess you can't trust pot-tv any more than high times....heh....

also they state in text "First there was Ruderalis, next there was Sativa and Indica, now Scientists point to a new type of high THC cannabis..... Rasta!" yet the ruderalis was discovered quite a bit after sativa or indica. it just looks like whoever created this has their head REEEEEALLY far up their ass....

 

Don't got any weed? Just rip off a piece of shirt, pack your bowl, and light up!

 

assuming this "new" type of cannabis exists, which i dont doubt at all, you wont be able to get high from hemp products made from it as the guy in the video suggests. they use the fibers from the stems, folks, nothing that's going to actually have usable amounts of thc in the finished product. you'd still need to smoke the flowers!

 

the picture in the video looked like any weed plant. what are these people talkin about? i dig the name cannabis rasta though so i dont give a fuck i dig it if they found a "new" weed

 

the difference between indicas and sativas, though distinctive, seem to me to be blurred enough by hybridizing and all that that sometimes i wonder how much difference there really is genetically between them anyways. i mean, all this taxonomy and classification is merely a tool for us to better understand and categorize organisms into different compartments because generalizations make us comfortable. but a member of one species is not supposed to be able to have fertile progeny with the member of another species, at least with animals (as in horse+donkey=mule, but a mule can't produce it's own offspring)....i don't know about plant species, but i DO know that indicas and sativas can creat fertile offspring, so i just wonder if they really are seperate species? i mean, what differences are there seem to be more or less negligable in many cases....besides, in the grand scheme of things its not like anything pays too much attention to "species," its simply an idea we've made up to better understand the natural world....surely some species are very distinct (such as the difference between a bear and a dog) but some are just minimal differences and seems like nitpicking to me.....as far as i'm concerned, pot is pot, and some just shows different characteristics than others. some's tall, somes short, some has narrow leaves, some has broad leaves, somes energetic, some lazy, and all sorts of other variations...but due to selective breeding, it's hard to really tell what came from where anymore. i dunno, i'm just sort of losing a lot of faith in some aspects of "science" lately.....seems a bit superficial to pretend that just because pot from one part of the world grows differently than pot from another that it's all of a sudden a different plant species entirely.....i mean hell, the strawberries that grow in a garden or the wild are usually a far cry from what you buy in the store...the berries are small, and actually bursting with sweetness and flavor, unlike the less flavorful but bigger and prettier ones on display in the market. does that make them a different species? no, they're still just strawberries......


but then, i'm probably just undereducated about the more technical differentiations and genetic differences and all that, if there really are that many, between indica and sativa and "rasta" or ruderalis....

though i would say in the instance of ruderalis, flowering by internal clock rather than by photosensitive reactions, as well as very little THC production and apparently stunted, rambling growth would probably be enough to justify a seperate species....

 

I agree with nesta...the guy in the clip is an idiot...I think its from some show on the discovery channel.

1. You cant 'smoke your shirt' after all the processing and fabrication of the shirt was completed there would be no THC left to smoke...besides it would taste like shit anyways, and why would you buy a 50 dollar shirt to smoke it...

and yeah...
...yeah