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What are the goals for a marijuana food?
In order to be most useful, a marijuana food should meet several standards:
- It should be easy to grow for the average person. It should not take a lot of gardening skill or special care
to produce products of therapeutic quality.
- It should not take up a lot of space. For example, garden herbs like oregano are commonly grown in small countertop gardens. Ideally, it should
be able to be grown in a space no bigger than a few square feet.
- It should be capable of producing maximum medicinal amounts within that small space. In terms of marijuana, the amount
the US Federal Government sends to its own medical marijuana patients each year is six pounds.
- It should not take a long time to grow. Trees imbued with cannabis might be big producers, but they might take five years before they are productive.
Plants that can be productive within 90 days or less are to be preferred.
- It should be capable of production year-round in most places without
huge increases in energy bills because of lighting requirements.
- It should have a palatable flavor, or be consumable with little or no flavor.
- There should be an easy method by which the average person could extract a
therapeutic dose. For example, spearmint, peppermint, oregano, or ordinary lawn
grass could all be vaporized or smoked, similar to the way that marijuana is
commonly used. Vaporization may
also be possible with genetically modified lactobacillus or yeast. "Marijuana" yeast might be used as simply as baking it in bread.
- It should not produce toxic products during consumption. For example,
pine trees might be good candidates because they produce essential oils.
However, the extraction process might also produce pine tar which would have
harmful effects.
The plants from the Best Plants list
that may meet these standards are:
- Lactobacillus
- Yeast
- Basil
- Bay Leaf
- Clary Sage
- Common Sage
- Clove
- Hops
- Hyssop
- Jasmine
- Lavender
- Lemon grass
- Marjoram
- Myrrh
- Oregano
- Patchouli
- Peppermint
- Rose
- Rosemary
- Spearmint
- Thyme
- Valerian
- Wintergreen
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