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This Q&A is a paraphrased transcript of three radio interviews I did with Sienna Lea on her show Illuminating the Shadowland. The original audio interviews are also posted on YouTube.
The public perception of the UFO phenomenon centers around lights seen in the sky, reports of encounters with beings and ships that have landed in the woods, and certain people getting abducted for experimentation and breeding purposes. These do happen, but they are only the tip of the iceberg.
Most alien influences are much more subtle and widespread. Their abilities include teleportation, invisibility, telepathy, and viewing of probable futures. This allows them to be more ubiquitous than commonly assumed. For instance, they can be standing by your bed while you sleep and telepathically insert commands into your subconscious. They can look over your shoulder as you type. They can monitor internet forums, pay attention to what people read and think of them. They can track who networks with whom, toward what possible outcomes, and what potentials for misunderstanding can be leveraged to break up those networks. Whereas lights in the sky are intentional displays to slowly acclimate the public to their existence, this more serious stuff is surreptitious and not meant to be noticed.
Now, they don’t have a personal interest in most people because most are of no consequence to them, except indirectly as far as total public perception goes. But if you are personally a threat to them, say by exposing their activities and methods, or if you are someone they find potentially useful as a proxy for their agenda, then they can be in your life without you ever remembering an abduction or having a UFO sighting. In other words, their reach extends beyond the typical abductees, contactees, and sighting witnesses. Thus far more people than assumed are under their observation and influence, and the alien phenomenon as a whole cannot be kept at arm’s length, as some abstract phenomenon that stays safely between the pages of a UFO book.
Why should people care about this subject?
Because the increase in sightings, contacts, abductions, and saturation of alien imagery and concepts in media and entertainment suggests alien open contact will happen in our lifetimes. It will change human history forever. Over time, the impacts will dwarf any of the mundane concerns people still take seriously today. The future can go very wrong, or very well depending on how we respond. If we’re not informed, we will be no better off than the natives who blindly welcomed the Spanish conquistadors. Misconceptions, disinformation, and wishful thinking are convincing people to support the wrong team. We just have to wise up, get informed, and not fall for it.
Where do they come from?
Any combination of possibilities: from the future, from a parallel reality, from some higher dimension we cannot perceive, some from other planets, some could be humans that long ago branched off and became more advanced than the rest of humanity. These possibilities are not mutually exclusive. For example, one alien faction might be human-like time travelers from a future where they have established colonies on other star systems and transcended to a higher dimension we cannot perceive.
Are they physical or nonphysical beings?
Both, neither, and in between. It seems to vary depending on the alien in question. They have bodies, real ships, working technology, and bases so we know they are physical to a degree. But by using technology or psychic powers they can change the dial on the radio station, so to speak. We are on one station; they can shift to other stations. To us it looks like they dematerialize. But really they are just shifting in/out of our reality. I would say the majority is quasi-physical or variably physical. They are not as entrenched in the limitations of physicality as we are. From a physics viewpoint, aliens demonstrate they have command over macroscopic quantum phenomena.
Are they good or evil?
They span the whole spectrum. Make no mistake, every alien faction has an agenda. Just that some agendas are in our best interest, some are not, and that defines whether an intention is good or bad — regardless of whether such distinctions exist at the absolute metaphysical level. There are obvious good guys, obvious bad guys, and then there are bad guys pretending to be good guys. What many channelers and contactees or abductees think are good aliens, are actually impostors. Telling the difference is important, and my article series Discerning Alien Disinformation is directed toward that goal.
Why are they here?
It ranges from one extreme to the other and everything in between. Some seem dedicated to our enlightenment and spiritual liberation, even if only to safeguard their own timeline if they are time travelers. Others are bent on total planetary control through deception and persuasion, for they are interested in us — not just our planet, but us humans — as a natural resource and strategic asset. Sure, some could be here as scientific observers or neutral referees, but those are not the only roles present. If you pay attention, you will see that since ancient times, there has been a tug of war going on. It’s over the future of this planet and the human race. They have a strategic interest in us, in our planet, in our future. William Bramley’s book “The Gods of Eden” gets into that. Factions from the future could even be engaged in a kind of quantum-based timewar over their shared past to restructure the timeline in their favor.
How long have they been here?
As Lloyd Pye points out, there’s evidence of genetic engineering in our DNA. We have fewer chromosomes than some worms, ferns, and even chimpanzees. We have genetic diseases that are unheard of among undomesticated animals. Aliens have surely been around since before the dawn of our species and played a role in genetically engineering or modifying us. Sumerian, Biblical, Greek, and Hindu mythology claim mankind was created by superhuman beings. The ancients called them gods, archons, angels, or jinn. This shows they’re not recent visitors to Earth, certainly not recent curious scientific explorers who just happened upon our world. They’ve been watching and influencing us since antediluvian times.
What are some common misconceptions about aliens?
1) That if they are advanced enough to get here, they must be evolved as a civilization, thus they must be good. Not so. If a hostile faction on their home planet uses nonviolent manipulation, they can slowly take over the rest of their planet without resorting to self-destroying forms of warfare. Then they can mold their civilization into a totalitarian dystopia hostile to other worlds. Think of what would have happened if the Nazis won the war. They came incredibly close. Had they succeeded, within several generations they would be colonizing other planets and enslaving those they considered subhuman.
2) That what we focus on we attract, therefore we shouldn’t think about negative aliens. The Law of Attraction only applies to synchronistic attraction. If you stop attracting, you’re not blocking either. They can still enter your life if they want, and they will do so if your ignorance can be exploited for their convenience.
3) That the government is bad, aliens are good. Ancient history and mythology suggest alien factions have battled each other. If they are all good, why were they fighting one another? What of the Battle of Nuremberg in 1516 when UFO fleets were seen shooting each other down? Undoubtedly there are negative alien factions here on Earth. And it’s more likely that the core of our shadow government, whose nucleus was seeded by the Nazis brought over after the war, are in league with the same negative alien factions that were in contact with Hitler and the Thule Society that birthed Nazism as an occult organization. If the shadow government is shooting down anyone, it’s the positive alien factions who refused to sign technology exchange treaties with them. These black ops groups may be using technology given to them by negative alien factions. So to say the government is bad, and aliens are good, is a gross and dangerous oversimplification.
Why haven’t they contacted us openly?
They do contact certain people and allow themselves to be seen at certain times in a certain controlled way. They don’t need to turn on their lights when they fly around, yet they do… for a purpose. They want to be seen, just in a measured way. It’s been an incremental desensitization and viral marketing effort that’s been going on since the 40s. And it’s accelerating toward a threshold. That means it will come to a head soon.
But why not full public contact yet? The “good guys” probably think our planet as a whole is not mature enough to handle alien contact calmly and wisely. It would do more harm than good.
Meanwhile, the “bad guys” don’t have all their pieces in place yet, but they’re getting close. They stay hidden to avoid painting themselves as targets. And the shadow government doesn’t want to upset the status quo either, not until they have enough totalitarian controls in place to prevent chaos when the alien presence is revealed.
So none have had reason yet to make public contact. The first to do so, however, will be the negative factions once programming of the population and police state controls are adequately in place. Should these forces cross a certain line, then positive factions might show up to help level the playing field by informing us of the deception. But they certainly wouldn’t show up first, as then they would have to shoulder the burden of being responsible for sending our civilization into a culture-shock induced tailspin. Nor are they in a position to orchestrate a police state lockdown to make sure we can face such a shock without total anarchy.
Why haven’t aliens taken over the planet when we were primitive?
Because not until recently have we developed the level of global government and technology needed to enslave ourselves. Now we have GPS, satellites, cameras, drones, NSA surveillance of every communication, militarized police, a global strike force, a global military. We have the mining infrastructure, water distillation plants, genetic raw material industries. We have everything needed to run our own prison, our own farm, and that’s far less work that these aliens have to do. If they tried it even five hundred years ago, they’d have to supply all the technology, training, and manpower themselves. Look at what the US forces in Afghanistan had to do to create the new Afghan military from the ground up, it’s a total mess. If the US had taken over the UK, the technology and infrastructure would already be in place there and would only have to be repurposed toward quelling dissent against the occupiers.
Why do negative aliens work through persuasion and deception instead of force?
It’s a softer, subtler form of hostility. They’re trying to keep us from making informed decisions, decisions that would interfere with their attempt to one day win over our hearts and minds through deception. That’s why even now, if you speak out against them, reveal their tactics, ask too many questions on a message board, you can and will gain their attention. They are quite neurotic about controlling and shaping public perception of them, just like any corporation worried about its image because that affects their bottom line. In practice though, aliens can already detect your probable future of causing them harm before you even speak the first word against them. I believe some people are profiled as a threat from infancy, and are abducted throughout life to ensure they never reach their potential.
They are micromanaging the little problem spots on the timeline, to keep them from becoming bigger problems in the future. It could be as simple as you starting to read an important book or website on this issue, and suddenly you’re overcome with an intense desire to fall asleep. Or you wake up the next day and all motivation to look into that subject has been wiped from you, even though you were all enthusiastic before going to sleep. What happened during the night? You don’t have to be taken for hybrid breeding purposes, to get visited and tinkered with.
So aliens use a variety of tactics to shut down spiritual and strategic awakenings in people. They are telepathic. They can read your thoughts, and they can influence your thoughts and feelings to an extent. It’s more a pressure than a total override, though they are capable of the latter as well if they are permitted to exercise that level of control. They can put hypnotic commands into your subconscious while you sleep, that influence you into doing, saying, thinking, or feeling what they require you to. Again, I say influence because it’s not total forced mind control. Most of the time it’s subtle persuasion, but it has a very high success rate because humans are so mindless and don’t question their own impulses.
If we’re aware of it, we can keep ourselves from following through with it. For instance, when coming across an important book on the subject, instead of saying “gee I’m sleepy, I guess I better go to bed” even though it’s two hours before your bedtime, become aware that something unusual is happening, and fight it off. That’s an easy one. Other forms of influencing play on your ego, your insecurities, your emotional weaknesses. Those are harder, because one needs self-examination, willpower, honesty, and humility to not play into ego hooks.
What is the demiurgic Matrix control grid?
This is a question of who’s really running the show, what’s really behind the system of spiritual oppression on this planet. If we look at who is controlling our society, on the surface it looks like the problem could be greedy corporations or corrupt politicians, but if you dig deeper you will find that their strings are really being pulled by secret societies and shadow military groups. But even those guys, by their own admission, ultimately take their orders from non-human beings, and here I mean aliens. So let’s look at what’s going on with aliens then.
From the abduction literature we know that the gray aliens are the most commonly reported. And it’s probably because they are more like worker bots that are put on the front line of the abduction program to do most of the handling of the abductees. They’re the ones flipping the burgers, so to speak. Grays never act on their own, they’re always looking up the chain of command for instruction. Sometimes they are seen with reptilians, insectoids, or human-looking aliens who appear to have the role of supervisor. Therefore it’s safe to say that the Grays are working for these other aliens, and that therefore these latter ones are the ones in charge. Then the big question is, whom do they ultimately serve? Who or what is their God?
Well, several sources I’ve come across claim that the reptilians worship the physical universe itself. But I think it would be more accurate to say that they worship the soul of the physical universe, which by definition would be what the Greeks and Gnostics called the Demiurge. It’s basically the soul of the matrix control system, the underlying source code that keeps it running. It’s a kind of subtle energy field that permeates this universe and holds it together in a certain configuration.
Now why is this important? Because if you want to control physical reality, you have to do it through the Demiurge in some way. You have to manipulate the source code or subtle energy field that projects this universe. If you’ve ever seen the movie Dark City, the aliens in that film do this nightly ritual where they channel their psychic powers into this big machine shaped like a face, and that machine is symbolic of the Demiurge. They use this machine to reconfigure the fake city that they have made for their victims to live in. Well, if Reptilians or other negative aliens want power, if they want to be kings of the Matrix, they have to turn to the Demiurge to do it.
And as a result of all their manipulations, their interfacing with the Demiurge, it’s my belief that the soul of the universe has gotten corrupted from all this evil intent being funneled though it. The source code of reality is infested with viruses and trojans. And that has given the Demiurge aspects of a universal parasite — which is exactly what the Gnostics recognized. Plato thought the Demiurge was good, but the Gnostics thought it was evil. Why? Because in its original and true form, it is a necessary and healthy part of creation. But it has a corrupted partition that seems to have a firm grip on our reality, and that is what the Gnostics saw. The Gnostics also said that there were powerful beings they termed Archons, who served this corrupt Demiurge and were served by it. Of course the Archons are really upper level negative aliens and maybe some overlords of the demonic realm.
So to sum up, there are probably negative aliens who “worship” the Demiurge, because it’s their occult sugar daddy, so to speak. I believe the Demiurge is therefore at the top of the negative hierarchy and the central coordinator of the matrix control system.
How do we contract to become part of the demiurge control grid?
I think it boils down to the fact that at some level, we made a choice that resulted in us being here in this physical universe. And when you take on a human body, you choose to accept its limitations. One of these limitations is that by default we only have five senses. That funnels our consciousness into a very narrow range, into perception of only the part of reality controlled by the Demiurge and its subordinates. So really, choosing to incarnate is choosing to take on a handicap, a kind of ignorance or blindness or delusion.
In addition to that, we also accept the laws of physics, which allow for physical force and therefore violence. Physicality is what allows one being to violate the freewill of another. Therefore, whether through deception because we can barely perceive anything, or through force because we are here in physicality, we risk having our freewill manipulated or outright violated. Thus we have chosen at some level to accept the risks that come with living in the domain of the Demiurge, and that creates a kind of contract that allows negative forces to influence and suppress us if we don’t take countermeasures.
The biggest problem is that a portion of this control system actually lives inside of us. It’s as if we — and here I mean our spirit or core consciousness — aren’t the only intelligence residing in our bodies. There’s another component inside that may be called the shadow.
The shadow is the part of us that comes from the Matrix, and that resonates with the corrupt Demiurge in an ‘as above, so below’ kind of way. It’s like an inner microcosmic reflection of the external Demiurgic hierarchy. The ego is part of it, but that’s only one component. I define the shadow as all hands on our steering wheel that aren’t our own, that are trying to pull us every way except the right spiritual direction. We’re not usually conscious of it, but our outlook and our behaviors and our decisions are biased by it.
The shadow resides in our subconscious, in the dark basement of the mind. There’s all kind of stuff down there, like repressed traumas, dissociated personalities or soul fragments, demons or ghosts that latch onto us like parasites, and also our biological drives and social conditioning. All of these make up the shadow, and their collective representative in our minds is the ego, which is the inner analogue to the Corrupt Demiurge itself.
So some of the shadow comes from habits, programs, and conditioning. People can spend years trying to work through such issues from a psychoanalytical perspective. But other parts of the shadow are actual entities that have embedded parts of themselves into our soul. There are times when psychological problems stemming from the shadow are actually due to these entities, rather than repressed emotions or internalized habits or whatever psychoanalysis tends to blame for being the problem. Researchers like William Baldwin, Corrado Malanga, and Shakuntala Modi have devised hypnosis techniques that aim to uproot these entities at the level of your subconscious mind, which can give faster results than mere counseling or psychoanalysis.
Is there an ancestral/racial shadow that we carry that has contracted with the dark side?
Well considering we humans have similar biology and psychology, we do have aspects of our individual personal shadows in common. Except that since we’re so fragmented as a species, where every mind is psychically cut off from another, there’s not that much of a cohesive collective shadow.
The situation would be different for aliens though. We know that aliens are telepathic, and that they’re therefore always connected to a kind of psychic internet shared between members of their civilization. This psychic internet creates a collective consciousness or collective pool of memories, and thoughts and experiences. The Law of One Material calls this a social memory complex. It’s not necessarily a hive mind where every alien is just an unconscious organ directed by a central mind, rather the aliens still have their own minds, but they are connected to each other via a common mental field.
Now, it stands to reason that for a dark alien civilization, that collective mental field will likewise have a dark aspect. After all, it’s what unifies them; it’s what gives them their motivation; it’s their common denominator. So this, then, would be their collective shadow, and it’s what resonates them collectively with the Demiurge.
So you could say that the shadow within an alien links it to the collective shadow of its civilization, which links that civilization to the shadow of the universe, namely the Demiurge. The same thing could be said for humans, just in a more embryonic and unfocused form.
How do we reinforce the Matrix control grid unconsciously with this relationship between our shadow and the entities that have access to our energy?
Well it’s like how computers can get viruses or trojans that allow hackers to access files and mess with the system. Our shadow is like a pyschological trojan that allows the Matrix to manipulate us. One example would be when the Matrix makes an appeal to ego, and we ignore our spiritual conscience and make an ego-based decision instead. And that ends up ensnaring us further in the Matrix.
In any case it leads to a loss of personal energy that instead feeds the demons, negative aliens, and other parasites that evoked that response. It’s in our lacking self-awareness and not questioning what’s motivating our decisions, that we act from the part within us that the Matrix has control over.
In what ways do Aliens and entities influence our thoughts emotions and actions once we have allowed them in?
I think most sentient people start off with a very basic form of protection from these entities. Not that they are free from getting harassed or manipulated in life, but rather that they can’t be outright killed or possessed on the first try. The protection might come from the higher self or spirit guardians or angels or whatever.
But if you intentionally invite negative forces in, even if you mistakenly believe they’re the good guys, then all bets are off. It’s like lowering the drawbridge. No matter how good the rest of your defenses are, if you give them permission to come in, then you have a real problem on your hands. It’s like giving a hacker the passwords to your online accounts. Think of how much can they do with that. They can take over your life. Well, giving aliens or demons permission eventually leads to full possession or mind control, whereby a person will become a walking instrument for aliens or demons to control.
The more permission they obtain from you over time, the more tangible, noticeable, and imposing they become in your life. Permission isn’t an all or nothing thing. It’s incremental, and they take what they can get. Satanic rituals are an extreme example. That’s where you consciously invoke an entity through ritualistic acts that serve as a method of giving permission. With some aliens, it’s not that different. I mean, there are books on steps you can take to invite the Grays into your life! We have to be careful with those kinds of sources.
What are the dangers of inviting such forces?
Let me give you an example. When I was 12, my family was driving home one night and I looked out the window at the stars and asked “them” for a sign. I had read a lot of books about abductions and was curious about the Grays. I wanted them to prove to me they were real. I expected the stars to start flying around or something, but that didn’t happen. Well, that night I had a dream about being on an airplane with people sitting around me who had white faces and black eyes. I woke up with a two inch long scar on my forehead going into my hair line. And for the next several years, I had a lot of backdoor alien interference in my life. I got my sign alright, but at the cost of my wellbeing.
So when you mentally send out a request for alien contact, remember that anyone can hear that message — not just the good guys. From what I’ve experienced, negative aliens — especially the ones who share traits with demons — they need permission to get at you more directly. And when they hear such a mental broadcast, they realize there’s a potential sucker down there who can be exploited. They can sense the motivation behind your call, and if you do it out of ego and ignorant wonder, you’ll definitely attract the wrong forces. If you do it for the right reasons, in a moment of humble sincerity and strength and discernment and readiness, then maybe the real good guys will enter your life — even if only by sending inspiration and beneficial coincidences your way. But they’re at the back of the line as far as who wants at you first, and not until you have the filter mechanism to see through all but the last in line, will you earn the respect of the latter.
If you do call out to aliens, never EVER address or mentally picture the Grays, Reptilians, or Insectoid beings. Address only those who serve the divine will and are of a positive spiritual orientation. And even then, be sure to test whoever might respond to make sure they are not impostors putting on a smile and a pretty face. Inviting aliens is a bad idea overall, but if you do it, do it from a position of selflessness, calm awareness of the risks, and with a sense of dedication to the upliftment of humanity to gain the attention of beings with similar motives. Even just being curious for the sake of new experiences is not enough.
And don’t aim it at the sky, because that demonstrates a naive assumption that they’re necessarily flying around in ships. Just aim it inwardly like a prayer. They’re psychic and can sense you based on your intent and energy. If you can’t muster that kind of selfless purity and wisdom, then it’s best not to try. If you’re ready, they’ll contact you, you don’t need to solicit them. It’s a rule though, that positive aliens try to interfere as little as possible, so even if you got their attention, their presence in your life may be covert, helping you out in ways that make you think you’re just lucky or clever. It’s the impostor aliens that show up with fanfare and pompous stories about how you’re really the only surviving heir of Commander Ashtar and need to claim your galactic inheritance from the Dolphin Council or some baloney story like that.
What is their agenda for the human race, and how are they wishing to use us against our own humanity?
I believe that we are divine godsparks inhabiting human bodies. The body can be our prison, or it can be our temple. It depends on whether we rule the body, or whether the body rules us. I believe that our bodies were genetically engineered over tens of thousands of years by various alien factions. The later modifications probably handicapped us psychically, mentally, and physically. Right now we’re at a point where we have just enough abilities to sustain civilization and keep the matrix going, but not enough to easily see through deception and have the energy and smarts to easily put a stop to it. But we still have enough of something that we could escape their clutches of control, and I think that’s the risk they’re trying to mitigate.
I believe that they are planning on revealing themselves to humanity one day but will pose as our saviors. Then I think they will implement a transhumanist movement that will result in the human species being genetically modified once again and augmented with cybernetic technologies that take the place of spiritual functions. So that in the end, we will be godsparks fully imprisoned within a high tech biological prison and deeply mind controlled.
I think they’re just trying to create a more manageable and profitable crop. I mean, we’re GMOs, we’re genetically modified organisms, and they are the Monsanto of the galaxy. Overall I think it’s about a war of darkness against light, a completion of the mythical Lucifer Rebellion against the Kingdom of Heaven.
Is truly embodying our humanity, our love and compassion and empathy for life, the cure for all this?
Well that’s the part we must never give up, because those qualities of love, compassion, and empathy are functions of spirit, of our inner godspark. The moment we give those up, we give up the very thing we’re fighting for. But of course, love without wisdom is ignorance and naiveté. It’s like the story of Adam and Eve, they had love and compassion and empathy because they were pure, but they were no wiser than babies. The other half of the equation is wisdom, discernment, and awareness. You have to be sharp, think hard, see through the deception, and have the tools and knowledge to carry out the directives that come from your heart.
Love and understanding go hand in hand. The highest love and the highest understanding are the same thing. When you truly understand something or someone in the most absolute sense, you can’t help but love them. That’s where the two halves of the equation unite. But at our level, the best we can do is strive to balance and develop both sides in parallel.
How do we break our contracts with them and gain sovereignty over our own spirits and souls?
There are different kinds of contracts. The verbal ones made with aliens or demons are straightforward to deal with. If you have an unwanted alien presence in your life, it’s always a good idea to put your foot down and show gestures of refusal to cooperate. If they tell you to lie down and go to sleep because they are coming, refuse. If they are likely to show up on a particular night, then get a voice activated digital recorder to make it harder for them to get away with it. State out loud periodically that you revoke all permissions given to them, you know, that you cancel any agreements you might have with them. When you assert yourself that you are no longer cooperating with the dark side, that gives the positive forces more legal right to intervene and protect you. So really it comes down to revoking permission, aligning yourself with the divine, dropping all fear, and acquiring sharper awareness and knowledge and applying it in a very calm and strategic manner. That’s the best advice I can give.
On the other hand, the contract you have with physicality by being born into a human body, that contract is the most deeply binding. To overcome the five senses and the laws of physics is very difficult because it’s rooted in a choice made at a level of mind that is way deeper than any level we have access to in our current state. Tell yourself that you reject gravity and try stepping off a chair. You’re guaranteed to fall to the floor. That’s the whole point of physicality, to be bound by restrictions and consequences that create a kind of game or difficult workout for the soul.
Now, if you really wanted to get over the five senses and physicality, you can either go backwards or forwards. Going backwards means reversing the choice you made to inhabit a physical body, as in death. But that’s not progress, that’s a form of rejection or avoidance. It’s like a kid dropping out of school, that’s not the same as leaving school via graduating. To go forward would mean graduating from physicality through high levels of spiritual self-mastery and the development of certain psychic powers. If you make the choice to eat like crazy and then you get fat, how do you overcome the consequences of that choice? You exercise, and that takes lots of time and lots of exercise. The choice to become human likewise takes time and work to overcome. It’s not as simple as verbally revoking the choice, as you still have to undo the consequences. Even the positive aliens aren’t fully there yet, though they are light-years beyond us in what they’ve overcome.
What are the Universal laws we need to learn to shore up the holes in our self-protection fields.
It’s important to understand how our own shadows can resonate with the dark side of certain alien beings and draw them deeper into our lives. There’s this metaphysical principle called the Law of Attraction. It says that what we deeply resonate with down at the subconscious level, we attract in a synchronistic way. It’s not a New Age principle, it traces back to ancient times and were part of the teachings of Christ, though the New Age has certainly hijacked that idea and diverted it toward ignorant, egotistical, and materialistic ends.
As far as aliens are concerned, if you resonate with the predator-prey dynamic, you will be the prey that attracts the predator. That’s true in everyday life, where people with low self-esteem and lack of confidence may attract abusers and bullies. Well, same goes for the opportunistic types of aliens that look for people to toy with and feed on. When you sustain a deep seated fear of a situation, a kind of fear that gnaws at you and takes on a life of its own, that can cause that very situation to manifest. So being in a constant state of fear, paranoia, and jumpiness regarding aliens can actually bring about terrifying alien activities in your life. That’s the dark side of the Law of Attraction.
Some aliens, mainly those who have demonic traits and may actually be possessed by demons in some way, they can use the Law of Attraction against you in order to worm their way into your life. They start by dropping some paranoid thought into your head telepathically, or maybe they cause some small paranormal incident that grabs your attention and makes you worry. Then the more you obsess over it and give into prolonged paranoia, the more you attract events that induce more of the same feelings. The beings can therefore “ride” these events to make you even more scared. This creates a runaway feedback loop that, if left unchecked, can cause a total meltdown of your mind and your reality. People who succumb to that end up homeless, or in mental hospitals, or in some cases I believe they get taken over or possessed.
Now, just because paranoia attracts them, that doesn’t mean ignoring the alien phenomenon will keep them away. Sure, ignoring might make you stop attracting them, but that’s not the same as outright blocking them. They can still enter your life if they want to. Your door may no longer be open, but it’s also not locked. They can enter if they want. So you can’t make negative forces go away solely by ignoring them. That’s a prevalent misconception in the New Age community.
The question is, how then do you block them? Well, it’s conscious awareness that has a blocking effect. For instance, more often than not, I’ve noticed that problems tend to show up when I least expect them. But if I become aware of the problem and am mentally prepared to handle it, then it never happens again. So what you prepare for and calmly anticipate tends not to manifest. This is the Law of Awareness. It’s as if awareness freezes a probable future in its tracks, keeps it from precipitating in the present moment. This can be combined with the Law of Attraction to get rid of 90% of overt alien interference in your life.
What you do is use the Law of Attraction to stop attracting, and use the Law of Awareness to start blocking. So first and most important thing you can do, is drop the paranoia, the fear, the desperation, obsession, and victim mindset. That’s because having a strong sense of powerlessness attracts situations that make you feel even more powerless. You can also apply the Law of Attraction by resonating with the opposite of paranoia, by invoking a feeling of protection, confidence, power, and stability. Then you can combine this with the Law of Awareness by very calmly and strategically anticipating their moves, and then taking common sense preventative measures if needed.
It’s totally okay to learn about the alien agenda and read about what they’re up to, so long as you keep calm and approach it from an intellectual and strategic point of view. It helps to maintain a sense of confidence and positivity. You know, it’s not a choice between being cynically aware or blissfully ignorant, you can be blissfully aware if you have the right knowledge and stay centered. So be aware, but stay positive.
What are some of your personal experiences with these forces?
There are two types of alien and demonic phenomena, overt and hidden. The overt phenomena are pretty easy to notice. They include intimidation, harassment, paranormal phenomena, and remembered abduction experiences. These comprise the bulk of experiences you find shown in movies, books and television because they are so tangible and in-your-face. But they are just the tip of the ice berg. Often they are just bluffs or misdirection meant to distract you. Most of what negative aliens and demons actually engage in, can be described as hidden interference which is far more serious and effective because it tries to sneak through the backdoor of your mind and exploit your weaknesses and blind spots without you noticing what’s going on.
My earliest overt experiences happened in 1981 in Germany, when I was less than a year old. I was in my crib in my room at night with all lights turned off except for a night-light shining up at spinning mobile suspended above me. I was looking up at it, when suddenly a pale face with black eyes peered over the crib and looked down at me. I remember being terrified and screaming the word “Geist!” at the top of my lungs. Geist is German for ghost, and that was actually my first word in life. So my parents would run into the room to check on me, but it was gone. According to my mom this happened a bunch of times.
Then between 1982 and 1985 I had several dozen abductions from that same apartment in Germany. The couple I remember started out the same way. I’d be in my parent’s bedroom during the early afternoon, having just awoken from my nap, and often my mom would be there standing next to the bed. She tells me to stay there while she attends to some business out in the hallway. The bedroom door was closed, but I could tell there was a lot of activity on the other side. So she walks out the door and closes it behind her, and at that point I would suddenly remember all the previous times this happened, and I thought “oh no, not this again!” So I panicked and looked for a place to hide, which was either under the bed or in the back corner of the room between some furniture. But as I was running for cover, the door would open and in would pour a half dozen or more Grays in cobalt blue suits. They swooped right in on me and then I would black out. After that I only remember small fragments. I do recall landing on a grassy field near some mountains, with the sun starting to set. When the abduction was over, I’d wake up in the bedroom and it would be early afternoon again. So I suspect I was taken east to a different time zone. Now, during those years I also had a terrible fear of owls and was always talking to my parents and grandparents about what I called the Steinemenschen, meaning Stone Men. I called them that because their vibes were like they were non-living things that were somehow animated in a creepy way. So I was definitely being abducted back then, but what they did to me exactly I don’t remember.
Fast forward to October of 2002, when an alien tried to bust down my front door. I was living in Florida at the time, in my own studio apartment. I was up late at night working on an article for my site, when I heard something dash across the lawn of the private courtyard outside. It made a rustling sound like porcupine quills or dry leaves being shaken. And I could tell from the sound that it was bipedal and about as light as a child. But it moved way too quickly for person, and that made me concerned. So I projected my mental feelers into the darkness outside and when I connected with whatever it was, I got goose bumps because that thing felt wrong. That’s when I heard this thing step onto the concrete porch and slowly pitter patter up to my door. So I stared at the door as it got closer and then boom, it threw itself up against the door and started rattling it like it was trying to get in. Because I was sitting on the floor, I couldn’t see through the gaps between glass slats, only through the slats themselves, and what I saw was a pinkish blob shaped like a face at doorknob height, and a smaller blob shaped like a hand with long fingers about halfway down. This thing was probably 3 to 4 feet tall. After yelling at it to identify itself a couple times, I commanded it in the name of God to go away. But it just stayed there pressed up against the door. And that’s when I reached for the phone and began dialing my girlfriend, and when she answered and I looked back up the thing was finally gone. I told her I was coming over, and then had to make a run for my car through that dark courtyard, but luckily I didn’t encounter that being.
So in the fall of 2004 we moved to Virginia, and just a month or two later I heard that same exact rustling sound coming from outside the kitchen window. Something had just dashed across the cement patio out there. My girlfriend heard it too, and she knew immediately what it might be. Our cat also heard it, and went nuts running from window to window trying to look out into the darkness at whatever made that noise. She never did that with deer or raccoons, so this was different. Instinctively I just went around and closed all the blinds, made sure nothing could see in, and we couldn’t see out. And that was the end of that incident. If I had seen a face peering through the window I think I would have lost it.
What are the more covert forms of interference you have experienced?
The overt kinds of experiences are pretty rare in my life. I don’t have even a quarter of the experiences that others might. I mean, check out my girlfriend’s website if you’d like some cool anecdotes. I’m normally the guy taking in everyone else’s experiences and crunching the data. But I don’t really get open harassment like black vans parked outside, or threatening phone calls, or aliens telling me they’re going to replace me with a clone if I don’t stop what I’m doing. That stuff doesn’t really work on me, it only makes me fight harder with more confidence. I found that when they get serious, they use covert methods to destroy you without you even realizing it. And that’s a much bigger threat, because it’s sneaky and I think more commonplace than the overt stuff.
Disinfo Agents
I noticed a recurring pattern with aware people, which was that a disinformation agent would enter their life shortly after the beginning of their awakening process. It was like something was trying to nip these people in the bud before they could build up discernment. Well I had mine in 2001 after I first stumbled across the idea that reality itself was a conspiracy, that it might be counterfeit like in the Matrix movies or the Truman Show. A couple weeks into this, a woman emailed me through another website I owned that was completely separate from my main site. No one who visited that site could possibly know that I was behind it, and I hadn’t yet published anything concerning the Matrix idea either. And yet there she was telling me about reality being fake, and listing off some of the very same websites I had been looking into regarding that theory.
So her contacting me was quite synchronistic to say the least. She mirrored all my thoughts and theories about it as if trying to gain rapport, except she would add this disinformative paranoid spin to it all. As the weeks went on, the spin would keep increasing and try to pull me along with it. I got the impression she was hurried like some sales person trying to close a deal. Well I wasn’t buying into it fast enough for her, and that’s when she did a 180 and tried to bite my head off, and I mean a total emotional breakdown. When that didn’t work, she became really nice again, and then another 180 and that’s when I cut her out.
I’ve known dozens of other people who’ve had similar stories of someone entering their lives synchronistically who worked quickly to gain rapport only to dump a bunch of disinformation on them and try to lead them around by the nose, then do 180s when it wasn’t working. You have to watch out for those controlling types.
Paranoia-induced Synchronicities
Another thing I started noticing back then was how my beliefs could warp reality into creating synchronicities that reinforced those beliefs. Like for a short while there I really was starting to believe that reality was fake and people around me were only pretending to be human. And wouldn’t you know it, my college roommates and their friends started mirroring my thoughts, saying things that pertained to what I had been thinking or noticing that day. Like I was walking home from class when I came across a shoe in the grass, a black flat just lying there. I thought that was odd but put it out of my mind, and then as soon as I got back to my apartment and sat down to rest, my roommate’s girlfriend sits down and starts telling me about the black flats she just bought. She shows them to me and they’re the same exact kind I saw earlier. Stuff like that would happen several times a day for weeks. It seemed like people knew what I was doing and thinking at all times. And if I hadn’t snapped out of it, I could have easily descended into all out paranoid schizophrenia.
But knowing what I know now, most of it was actually generated by my own subconscious bending probability and nudging other people’s thoughts. My subconscious was being filled with paranoid beliefs that were bleeding over into reality itself. I mean, sure there are hybrids and aliens pretending to be human who have telepathic powers, but there’s also self-generated synchronistic phenomena that can mimic that and add to it. So that’s why I recommend people drop the deep seated fear and paranoia, and try to seek awareness with a sense of confidence and positivity, because you don’t want to make reality weirder than it already is.
Depression and Aggression
One of the most important things I’ve learned is that not all of our thoughts and emotions are necessarily our own. They can be induced from the outside by various technologies and psychic means. I mean, people can be neutralized this way if their minds are bent towards self-destructive attitudes like despair, apathy, depression, suicidal thoughts, and so on. Now, for years I would get hit with a dark cloud of negative energies just prior to being faced with an important decision or situation. Like at the end of high school when I was doing college and scholarship applications, I might wake up feeling utterly defeated and worthless and depressed for no reason, and coincidentally that very day a counselor would tell me to apply for a particular scholarship. I had no way of knowing that morning, that this day I’d be given such an opportunity. And if I gave into the artificial attitude I woke up with, I would have not even bothered applying. But most of the time I pushed myself and went for it anyway, and because of that ended up getting a full ride. But had I given into those feelings, my life would be very different now.
Same with feelings of aggression that might hit me out of nowhere just prior to some situation erupting that could cause a lot of damage to friendships and relationship if I overreacted. So whatever was influencing me had foreknowledge of the immediate future and was manipulating me into being off balance so that I wouldn’t make the right choices. But by realizing these sudden changes were external manipulations, I could disown them and thereby locate my true inner feelings and act from those instead. After doing this for a while, whatever was causing the problem finally backed off, like it wasn’t working anymore for them.
Break up of Networks
The most common and most serious form of interference is the breaking up of networks, and friendships, relationships. I’ve seen how people are profiled for their weaknesses and then played against each other in very precise ways to create the maximum amount of damage. I saw this happen all the time on the Noble Realms forum that I ran for several years. That forum was a constant target of disruptions because it was a fringe sanctuary of sorts and a lot of good came from it. But people were being targeted left and right. One guy left the forum for a while because he was so spooked at his own overreactions, you know, by the sensation of being overcome by an external psychic pressure.
From what I could tell, some external force was profiling members, scanning them for their weaknesses, who held what interests, who had what buttons and ego sensitivities and so on. This force could also see the near future and tell when certain people would be at their low points, which I noticed tended to correlate with lunar and biorhythm cycles. So it would pick the weakest people and start working them over, possibly even through abduction, so that at their weakest time they could be pressured into carrying out a certain act, into saying something that had a very strategically calculated effect. One thing then triggers another and the end result would be a permanent ruin of important friendships and great damage to my credibility and reputation as well.
But I caught onto this and got better and better at heading it off. Like I would get precognitive dreams and other indicators that would let me know who would be the problem, what the issue would be about, and roughly when it would occur. That allowed me to make some prescient moderator moves that prevented about half of these incidences from coming to fruition. People who didn’t have the inside scoop were pretty mystified at my moderation style, but little did they know that an invisible war was happening behind the scenes. This allowed me to keep the forum running for a good four years before I had to move onto other things.
Signs of Monitoring
Even back in Germany, I would get occasional ringing in my ears as a kid. They sounded like this sample I re-created.
Looking back on it, they would cluster around times when I would have my abductions. Well it wasn’t until ten years ago that I figured out what these ear ringings meant. In my case they were signs of being psychically pinged by an entity that was scanning me. A few times I was dreaming while an ear ringing occurred for real, and in the dream it would symbolically manifest as a fire station alarm going off, or something along those lines. That is what initially clued me to the idea that for me, ringings were like a psychic tripwire being set off by an intruder.
So in my case, it was a sign of being monitored, usually in anticipation of something I didn’t yet know about like an impending abduction, or some disinformation agent sent to throw me off track, or some orchestrated hit on the forum that would impact me, or any event that they find strategically important. I would get these ear ringings and other symptoms in the days or sometimes even minutes leading up to it. The correlation was good enough that I can use ear ringings as a pretty reliable indicator that something is around the corner.
As for ringing in the left ear versus right, I found that right has a relatively more positive meaning than the left. But that’s relative to what the basic meaning of an ear ringing is for you. Since mine indicate monitoring regarding an event of interest, I found that right ear means an event that signifies a hit against my faith, self-confidence, resolve, and will to live. Those are all positive qualities, hence why it’s in my right ear. Whereas left ear has correlated with events that play on my aggression or cockiness or overreaction, which are negative qualities. But for someone else whose ear ringing has a different basic meaning, the right and left will be positive and negative in context of that. The Law of One material mentions how the subtle energy field of the body is bilateral and the right side is associated with more spiritually positive patterns, which correlates.
Some people don’t get ear ringings at all, and I’ve always wondered what differentiated them. From the few I know who don’t, their interests and abilities don’t really intersect with the alien agenda. So perhaps they aren’t of interest to them.
Weakening Process Leading up to Critical Decisions
I noticed that I would get a lot of interference in the days leading up to some negatively orchestrated event. For one, I would get hit with this amped-up nervous energy that felt like having too much caffeine even though I didn’t have any caffeine, and that resulted in a couple days of sleep deprivation. Along with that, I would also get this pulsation of the glowing phosphenes in my field of vision, which I actually measured and found to be 8 cycles per second, which is in the alpha brainwave state. That state is too low to be fully awake, and too high to be asleep, so that further added to my sleep deprivation.
Then about a day before the event, someone would always email me being a complete jerk and try to provoke a reaction. Maybe to throw me further off balance, I don’t know. And lastly, when I did manage to get some sleep, I would get some pretty violent nightmares. So I would wake up tired and discombobulated, only to be thrown into the orchestrated event where my self-restraint and judgment were really put to the test.
This kind of thing would happen once or twice a month for the four years I ran my forum, and also afterwards when the opportunity arose. It’s always the same pattern, and I’m still working on how to deal with that.
Mind Programming Attrition
When all else fails, I noticed that they simply engage in a very subtle but steady process of weakening a person. It’s called a war of attrition. Sapping energy here and there, lots of programming during sleep or during abductions to instill posthypnotic commands, and so on.
Imagine if you were told several thousand times a night as you slept, that you see no hope in the world and that God has abandoned you. And that this went on for months without you consciously realizing it. Can you imagine what effect that would have on your subconscious, what that would do to your daily outlook? It would grind you down and sink you into that exact mindset.
What I said before about using the Law of Awareness, well that protection goes away if you’re unconscious. You can’t block if you’re not aware. What are you doing for a third of the day? You’re sleeping, you’re unconscious of your surroundings. Unless you develop lucid dreaming skills, which is really about how much mental and spiritual energy you have, or unless you have some psychic mechanism in place to alert you intrusion, you are manipulable during sleep. Then the best you can do is damage control in the days after to notice triggers and influences before they trip you up.
I believe this is the kind of stuff that is being done on a mass scale, whether by human technology, or through demonic beings whispering such negative programming into our minds as we sleep, or aliens picking targets and hacking away at their morale and spiritual light. This is a big problem.
How do you deal with attrition?
To counter this, if you can identify roughly what negative commands are shaping your attitude, you can create equal and opposite statements and use those as affirmations. I’ve also found it important to spend a few minutes everyday before getting up, doing what it takes to put yourself into a good and healthy mindset. This way you start the day on a mindset of your own choosing, rather than letting what happened during the night decide that. The way I see it, as long as I’m conscious and awake, I have the freewill to take control of my thoughts and my feelings. They may have the night, but I rule the day. And if my positive gains outdo negative influences, I win and they lose. I learned that if you can’t block them, you can still outmaneuver them by having more light than they can snuff out. That’s really what it comes down to.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba (CPSM) is asking its members to review the recent updates from Health Canada regarding authorized cannabis for medical use. The memo notes that Health Canada may contact CPSM registrants directly to request evidence supporting the amount of cannabis authorized for a particular patient.
Almost five months into its court-appointed receivership, Delta 9 Cannabis Inc. creditors will have a chance to vote on the Manitoba company’s plan of arrangement later this month, reports the Winnipeg Free Press. SNDL Inc., which holds about $40 million in secured debt, will be paid in full. Co-founder John Arbuthnot said a deal should be closed on Delta 9’s 100,000-square-foot cultivation hub (with its 297 production pods) by mid-January. In November, Delta 9 selected a bidder for 17 of those grow pods.
Avicanna Inc. announced the initial delivery of its topical products into Europe as a part of a previously announced exclusive supply agreement with a multinational pharmaceutical company. The company plans to launch products in six European countries during 2025 with expectations of further expansion throughout the European region shortly after. The products use CBD and CBG from Avicanna’s majority-owned subsidiary, Santa Marta Golden Hemp S.A.S., in Santa Marta, Colombia.
Canopy Growth Corporationwill complete its acquisition ofAcreage Holdings on or around December 9, 2024, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain closing conditions.
Several media outlets ran a story on new products available at the OCS for the holidays.
The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal ran a piece on the testing results of cannabis vape pens (covered by StratCann in October) by RPC in New Brunswick. The article also includes new comments regarding ongoing questions in the province around jurisdictional authority for the province’s retail regulations, with comments from former NB public safety minister Kris Austin, RCMP Cpl. Hans Ouellette,and Health Canada.
Decibel Cannabis Company Inc. received final acceptance from the TSX Venture Exchange for its previously announced acquisition of AgMedica Bioscience Inc.
The USDEA’s hearings on cannabis reschedulingwill begin on January 21, 2025, continuing through March 6, meeting twice a week save for a one-week break in February. Presenters will include Village Farms International, the parent company of Pure Sunfarms in Delta, BC.
Queensland doctors and pharmacists want medicinal cannabis removed from the special access scheme, saying the pathway is being used to bypass TGA assessment. The letter was co-signed by AMA Queensland, the state branches of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, and RANZCP, reports AusDoc.com.
Politico spoke with Brian Hanna, executive director of Michigan’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency, on the successes and challenges of the state’s legalization efforts, five years in. And finally, Texas Governor Dan Patrick announced he’s launched a legislative initiative to ban all THC being sold in Texas.
Drug reform advocates hailed Oregon as a progressive leader when it became the first in the nation to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the compound found in psychedelic mushrooms.
But four years later, voters in a growing list of its cities have banned the substance.
Four cities, spanning Portland suburbs and rural and coastal towns, added new voter-approved prohibitions for the federally illegal compound in the Nov. 5 election. A dozen other communities that approved two-year moratoriums in 2022, when a majority of Oregon counties and over 100 cities voted to temporarily or permanently ban psilocybin, voted in this election to make the restrictions permanent.
In the wake of the fentanyl crisis, the rejection of drug liberalization measures in Oregon and states across the country this election has some experts questioning whether voters are rethinking their appetite for such policies.
In Massachusetts, for example, voters rejected a measure that would have allowed residents over 21 to grow and use plant-based psychedelic drugs in certain circumstances. All three states that had measures to legalize recreational marijuana voted against it.
Oregon voters, in particular, appear to have soured on drug reform. A law passed by voters four years ago that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of hard drugs, including heroin and methamphetamine, was rolled back by the state legislature earlier this year after heated debate over whether it played a role in a spike in public drug use and deaths.
“Perhaps the fact that the drug policy reform pendulum appears to be swinging back towards prohibition is part of a broader trend toward a preference for ‘law and order’ among American voters,” said Josh Hardman, founder of Psychedelics Alpha, a consulting firm and newsletter on psychedelic research, business and policy. “Oregon, specifically, has been touted as an example of liberal drug policies gone wrong.”
Despite the local bans, psilocybin remains accessible in over 30 licensed centres spanning the state’s most populous cities, like Portland, and a handful of small towns. Some rural counties also have voted to stay in the program.
However, access to therapeutic psilocybin is further complicated by high costs: One session can be up to $2,000 out of pocket. That is largely because centre owners and facilitators have to pass on licensure expenses to consumers in order to stay afloat.
MJ Wilt, who just opened a licensed centre in the Portland suburb of Gresham, spent tens of thousands of dollars of her own savings to get licensed and establish her centre. It’s been hard, she said, because her own experience with psilocybin changed her life for the better and she wants to bring that experience to others.
“The cost for the program has been astronomical and is not accessible to people across the socioeconomic spectrum,” Wilt said. “It’s certainly not the cash cow that people think or thought it was going to be.”
In 2020, roughly 56 per cent of Oregon voters approved Measure 109, which allowed for the manufacture and controlled, therapeutic use of psilocybin at licensed facilities for those over 21. But the measure allowed counties and cities to vote to opt out, resulting in a patchwork of regulations across the state.
Adding to the complexity, some cities have voted to allow psilocybin despite being in counties that banned it, as cities control the land incorporated within their borders while counties control unincorporated land.
The regulatory patchwork resembles that of cannabis law. In half of the 24 states that have legalized recreational cannabis, including Oregon, localities may opt out of most types of cannabis businesses, according to Kate Bryan, a policy specialist on criminal and civil justice at the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Colorado in 2022 became the only other state to legalize psilocybin for therapeutic use. It will begin accepting license applications for “healing centres” at the end of December, a spokesperson for the state’s natural medicine division said in an email. The law allows localities to adopt certain regulations regarding how the centres operate, but it does not allow them to ban such centres entirely.
Multiple cities across the country also have voted to decriminalize psilocybin, meaning a person cannot be arrested or prosecuted for possessing limited amounts of plant-based hallucinogens.
Psilocybin, found in several species of mushrooms, can cause hours of vivid hallucinations. Indigenous people have used it in healing rituals, and scientists are exploring whether it can help treat depression, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder. Researchers and military veterans are among those who have advocated for the study of the substance for therapeutic use.
Kat Thompson, the founder and CEO of Fractal Soul, a licensed psilocybin centre in the Portland suburb of Beaverton, said her centre has served 400 people in its first year and that the “vast majority” have had positive outcomes. Many come seeking help for depression, anxiety, trauma and addiction after years of trying talk therapy and medication, she said, while others come to process grief or explore their spirituality.
But she said a lack of public awareness about the state’s psilocybin program has led many to confuse it with Measure 110, the separate ballot measure also passed in 2020 that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of drugs. The botched implementation of the law — also a first of its kind in the nation — and rising overdose deaths amid the fentanyl crisis fueled pushback that prompted state lawmakers to backtrack on it earlier this year.
“We actually got lots of calls from people who had booked sessions with us who heard about the roll back of 110 and thought that that meant that we were closing,” Thompson said. “So we’ve had to explain and educate the public that Measure 110 was really just about decriminalization for personal use. It has nothing to do with the professional therapeutic model.”
Some people also confuse the model of the psilocybin centre with cannabis dispensaries. At dispensaries, people buy cannabis and leave to consume it elsewhere. People who want to use psilocybin, meanwhile, must consume it at a licensed service centre under the supervision of a licensed facilitator who administers it to them and remains with them for the duration of the trip, Thompson said.
“This is essentially a mental health clinic where someone is here all day with us,” she said. “By and large, it is extremely safe.”
Of the over 16,000 doses that have been administered since the first licensed centre opened in June 2023, staff at such centres have called 911 or taken a patient to a hospital five times, an Oregon Health Authority spokesperson confirmed in an email. There are roughly 350 licensed facilitators and a dozen psilocybin manufacturers in the state, according to the agency’s most recent figures.
Joe Buck, the mayor of Lake Oswego, a Portland suburb that just passed a psilocybin ban, said he wasn’t surprised by the outcome, even though a majority of the city’s residents supported Measure 109 in 2020.
“Oregon really has not done a great job managing its drug policy,” he said. “So I can understand how some people may be wary of the promises that are now being made around psilocybin.”
But further research on psilocybin, he said, could change voters’ perspective in the future.
“It really is up to state leaders, leaders in the federal government, to work these drugs through a good system that builds community trust.”
Health Canada has released its 2024 Canadian Cannabis Survey, shedding light on Canadians’ evolving attitudes, knowledge and behaviours surrounding cannabis use.
Conducted between April 4 and July 2, 2024, the survey highlights key trends, including shifts in consumption methods, purchasing habits, and public health impacts since cannabis legalization.
Key findings:
Smoking decline: While smoking remains the most common consumption method (69 per cent), its prevalence has declined. Edible cannabis products (57 per cent) and vape pens (37 per cent) continue to grow in popularity.
Shift to legal sources: In 2024, 72 per cent of respondents reported obtaining cannabis from legal sources, a sharp increase from 37 per cent in 2019. Legal storefronts have remained the primary source since 2019, with only 3 per cent of users accessing cannabis illegally.
Safer driving trends: Reports of driving after cannabis use dropped significantly, from 27 per cent in 2018 to 18 per cent in 2024.
Stable youth use rates: Cannabis use among youth aged 16 to 19 has remained steady at around 41 per cent over the past several years.
Daily use patterns: Approximately 25 per cent of cannabis users reported daily or near-daily consumption, a figure that has been stable since 2018, including among youth (20 per cent).
Public health focus
Health Canada has implemented targeted educational campaigns to address cannabis-related risks, particularly for youth and young adults whose brains are still developing. These efforts include youth education programs and community outreach.
This year’s survey added new topics, including the ease of access to cannabis from legal and illegal sources, usage of pre-rolled and infused joints, and consumption patterns for edibles.
The 2024 CCS collected responses from 11,666 Canadians aged 16 and older across all provinces and territories.
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I don’t normally publish my rants. By definition they are an excess of emotion regardless of how truthful or logical they may be. If one cannot master his or her emotions, ultimately one is a slave to them.
On occasion I become frustrated and choose to vent rather than let it stew inside. I have learned it is best to let it all go, lest I be consumed by anger, resentment and righteous indignation.
For some reason I have decided to post this one. Don’t ask me why because I could not answer logically.
Cognitive Dissonance
At what point are we solely and personally responsible for everything and anything that’s going on in our lives? As far as I’m concerned that’s the only question we must ask, and answer, if we are to begin to break the chains that bind us to our socioeconomic co-dependence and psychological victim hood.
What’s that you say? You aren’t a victim or codependent? Most of us who feel we are put out, encumbered or even assaulted don’t see our condition as self imposed other than possibly, maybe, somewhat incidentally. Rather, we perceive ourselves as clear thinking innocent bystanders being trampled and imposed upon by outside forces through no fault of our own.
The one and only inalienable right we have in this screwed up world, this mess of a hell hole, is the right to be curious, probing, inquisitive, to crave knowing more, to posses the desire to learn, to grow, to mature, to move forward rather than just tread water or sink silently beneath the surface and into the abyss.
To be perfectly frank I am a bit tired of hearing the futile bleating of the captured slave mind as it bemoans its sorry state of affairs. I didn’t know, no one told me, how was I supposed to know, it’s not my fault, I wasn’t taught, you made me (fill in the blank), you didn’t do your part so why should I do mine etc. This is the cry of the confined cranium, the deaf, dumb and blind, the sole surveyor of the empty space of our terminally closed minds.
And lest the reader mistake my rant to be directed exclusively towards the sensitive snowflake, social justice warrior and smug self righteous liberal, there are presently many classes of arrested development that result from different toxic ingredients and divergent formula. There’s more than one way to create a blind mind’s eye and it isn’t exclusive to a particular political, religious or social point of view.
An intellect closed to any and all alternatives is clogged regardless of the method of stoppage employed. This applies in particular to those who claim themselves unorthodox in mind, body or spirit, a minority of the minority. There is no one path to ‘truth’ reserved for the so called enlightened and self declared morally and intellectually superior…this author included.
I speak, of course, of those populating the political ‘right’ who ‘know’ with unwavering certainty we possess purity of mind and ideological wholesomeness. Having recently affirmed our righteous indignation with the election of a multi billionaire of egoic proportions as savior first class, we now anxiously await the latest chapter of the endlessly staged political play.
Carefully hedging all of our captured minds by claiming the lesser of two evils (anyone but the war mongering liberal) the hypocritical force runs no less deep in the alt-right than the radical-left. And let’s not forget the so-called ‘middle’ where everyone claims they actually reside.
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. The swamp monster himself, hailing from the better side of town but still stinking of marsh gas, has been tasked with the job of draining the fetid bubbling swamp. One of the elite swears fealty to the great unwashed, says all the ‘right’ things and is righteously rewarded with the keys to the castle with the promise to thoroughly clean house?
Are you kidding me?
Whoever said the hopelessly naïve are a danger to themselves and all others is spot on with the accurate assessment of our fawning slave mentality. Sadly I’m being tragically generous when I say naïve, since only total delusional thinking of the brain dead kind would convince anyone the way forward entails more of the same backward insanity. Just because the flavor is now Chocolate Cheesecake or Raspberry Ripple doesn’t make it any less the exact same ice cream we’ve all been previously served.
And yet “We the People” fall for it every single time. Why do we blame ‘them’ for manipulating us if it’s always successful? The answer is embarrassingly simple; because it’s intellectually easier and emotionally safer then examining our own complicity.
Then again, anything is better than being forced to assume ultimate authority for our own psychological and ideological well being. The big lie of personal salvation is alive and well in the closed minds of the corralled herds. There is no political savior waiting in the wings, no mighty being ready to swoop in and save us from ourselves. But isn’t it deliciously decadent to once again ‘believe’ with all (OK, maybe just half of) our heart and soul after a long bout of forced abstinence. The Candy man’s here and he makes the world taste good.
But of course we’re not one of those brain dead walkers because we don’t really believe. In fact we’re just waiting to see how the game plays out before we show our cards and play our hand. Naturally, that might take four more years of assessment before we can truly tell which way the political wind blows. But we will feel gloriously self righteous while we wait…or at least smug as a conservative bug.
Face it folks, we’ve been had; pumped and humped by Trump and ultimately by our own hand. It doesn’t matter who ascends to the throne so long as divide and control is the goal and the King’s court is sated. For as long as we deflect personal responsibility and then divide into different ideological tribes to affirm our choice, we can always be effectively leveraged against each other to the ultimate detriment of the greater good and the individual, sovereign or not.
My position is simple. While whoever ascends the throne can definitely effect substantial changes upon our daily living conditions, ultimately it is the King’s Court who rules the land through the King’s hand. Meaning the true power is not in the King, but behind and around the King. And that power is not interested in enriching and empowering you and me. In fact, the intent is to do just the opposite.
In my opinion the Great American Experiment is over, and has been for several decades now. What we are presently experiencing is a runoff of momentum and kinetic energy. Similar to the need for several miles of running room for an aircraft carrier or large ocean liner to slow down and stop, or more accurately to turn around, the American plantation is in the process of changing and it takes time to turn the slave ship of state, particularly if the King’s court wishes to maintain relative peace and productivity within the ranks of the proles while doing so.
But turn it is and turn it will.
So what do you and I do? From my point of view, the process is obvious and self evident. But it requires careful self examination and rigorous honesty, a process the vast majority will reject outright because it implies so much if fully accepted and internalized. It probably doesn’t help when I use harsh and inflexible terms to describe our collective socioeconomic condition. In my defense we desperately crave veiled innuendo and sweetened rhetoric to enable our continuing denial. Sorry, but I won’t be a party to that.
If we are a functioning (more accurately described as ‘productive’) member in today’s modern ‘culture’, meaning we have jobs and loans and cars and homes, to some extent we all share a collective and individual slave mentality. It is inescapable and a condition of cooperation and participation in today’s socioeconomic reality. The only real question one must ask is where in the slave hierarchy do we presently live and why do we participate.
When considering the term ‘slave’, most people immediately think of beatings by the master and intolerable living conditions. The reality is far different. While the master understands the utility of slave discipline and rule enforcement, ultimately the only purpose of the slave is to produce profits sufficiently above and beyond the cost of keeping the slave to compensate the master for the bother of maintaining a slave plantation. A severely beaten slave is not productive and may remain unproductive for a long period of time.
Therefore a carrot and stick approach is much more efficient when managing a population, be it an early 19th century southern cotton plantation or a 21st century multinational corporation domiciled in a crony capitalist ‘democratic’ state. The primary difference between the two slave ‘ages’ is the vastly increased productivity of the slaves and not in the management methods employed. Ultimately the modern day to day management of the greater plantation and the slave population has been collectivized by the masters and outsourced to ‘government’.
The exponentially greater profits enjoyed by the modern master enables a ‘sharing’ of the wealth with the slave employees. But it is not a sense of benevolence that drives this ‘sharing’, but rather good business sense. A happy slave is a productive slave, while a beaten and abused slave is an expensive sink hole with a negative ROI (return on investment).
Something rarely acknowledged, let alone even recognized, is the fact any governmental law, rule, regulation or edict, while often promoted as for the people and by the people, is in reality the slave masters way of leveling (or leveraging) the competitive playing field among the dominate masters themselves.
Remember, the slavers have outsourced day to day plebe administration to the ‘government’ so they can focus solely on business admin and profits. While “We the People” are led to believe otherwise, the cost of our keep is born solely by us through the cost and taxation on everything we ‘consume’. There are multiple layers of taxation on every product, including goods such as utilities and other ‘services’ we don’t see as consumption.
While the plantation ‘state’ itself is promoted as the doer of good and the fair arbiter of justice, in reality government is the slave (police) state enforcer, with all its enforcement acts backed up with the implied ‘legal’ use of deadly force, precisely the same technique used by the 19th century slave master to keep his property in line and on task. Then, as now, beatings were only meted out on an as-needed basis to demonstrate who has the power and the consequences of ignoring that lesson.
And by beatings I deliberately include not just physical beatings and shooting by various armed ‘forces’ (Military, Federal, State, County, City and Corporate ‘police’ officers) but administrative (EPA, DHS, DMV or health, building or zoning inspectors for example) and judicial (criminal, civil, administrative). And let’s not forget the entire Federal, State, County, City and ‘special’ taxing ‘authorities’ who almost always either take as the middleman (payroll withholding or taxes added at the cash register) or send a ‘bill’, which if not paid, will result in the taking of your property, or you, by force.
But the vast majority of time “We the Slaves” self regulate our own behavior so that we may color within the lines and extract maximum benefit from our sorry state of affairs. Our conditioning from birth imbues in us a firm belief this is the way the world works and the best course of action for us personally, and those we care about, is to improve our lot in life within the confines of our cognitive prison.
Though we may tell ourselves we are happy, considering a third of the US population is taking SSRI’s or other prescribed (or not) mind altering chemicals, our actions say otherwise. And this statistic doesn’t include ‘legal’ alcohol and various other stimulants.
While the reader may find this explanation simplistic or unrealistic and not comparable to the modern human condition, we are examining an ‘ancient’ state of mind with our ‘modern’ set of eyes. We self regulate in the exact same manner as the cotton slave did. We just call it something else, are conditioned to accept it and have justified it as in our best interest to do so.
Don’t believe me? Then explain to me why we stop at a stop sign at an empty intersection in the middle of nowhere while driving at 3 am? Or ask permission via government permit and inspection to improve or change our property, even if it’s owned free and clear? Or why we dutifully file our taxes with the guilty-until-proven-innocent IRS, where we have absolutely no ‘rights’ other than those the ‘agency’ wishes to bestow upon us?
This is freedom?
I fully understand, and agree, that I have no right to impose myself, or the results of my actions, upon others, even from a distance. And some of the so-called rules and regulations are intended to protect me from others and vice versa. But most ‘laws’ are designed to extract rent (a la tax), corral and control, strip mine what little wealth I have or simply to punitively punish.
We grumble and grown about state enforced rules and regulations, not to mention a bevy of fees and taxes no 18th century American revolutionary would ever agree to, let alone actually pay. But we grudgingly comply while grasping at feeble explanations such as that’s how the system works, we all need to pay our fair share or you can’t fight city hall, the ultimate example of a pitiful slave mentality. Few consider it to be the imposed cost of doing business, but that’s exactly what it is.
And let us never forget that “We the People” are the business. We pay for our own upkeep and regulation while others profit from our enslavement. I can use softer, more easily digestible words to describe the same situation. But it isn’t going to change reality, just the color of the glasses we chose to view reality through.
While we in the west are taught from childhood we are free to do as we please, entry into the consumer machine requires our consent, along with an explicit and conscious exchange of our ‘services’ for their goods. The more productive we are within the system the greater our remuneration, which supposedly leads to greater consumer bliss. We are allowed to complain all we want about the system, but never shall we question the system’s structure itself.
And here is where we make the bargain with the devil. There is just enough carrot out there in the form of modern consumer goods and conveniences, combined with plenty of stick carefully hidden within the social construct we are conditioned from birth to accept, for us to intuitively recognize it’s easier to go along to get along rather than to fight the system or go it alone.
But this is a carefully crafted either/or false choice scenario designed to keep us on the plantation, or to pull us back in if we have strayed. There are other choices available, but none of them involve the comforting illusion of having our cake and eating it too.
Because there are no longer new worlds to escape to in order to completely remove ourselves from the system (something the earlier American settlers did when they ‘escaped’ Europe for the new world) either we accept a somewhat/greatly diminished lifestyle in exchange for some/more ‘freedoms’ (which usually means less governmental intrusion) or we stay where we are and accept our greater captivity.
And I’m not necessarily saying that accepting our captivity is bad or evil, only that if done it should be seen for what it really is. But we lie to ourselves and those around us in order to avoid personal responsibility for our choice, even if the choice is never deliberately and consciously chosen, but one of default by deluded denial or cognitive conditioning. Ignorance is not bliss, but simply an excuse to deny even the desire or ability to know.
Obviously the overwhelming majority will bitch and complain, but then begrudgingly settle in for the duration. There’s an old saying how dissent and revolution fires the young mind and hardens the body. But if you’re not fully immersed within the establishment by the time you’re thirty (you know…mortgage, car loan, student loans, working wife and deductible kids) you’re just a plain old young fool. This way to the milk and honey…and the resulting codependent wage slavery.
The key understanding here is that the entire world is chopped up into plantations which, when grouped into countries, use different methods of governmental management to profit from the resident slave population. Considering so many people are clamoring to enter the United Plantation States of America, it seems reasonable to assume we Americans have one of the better corporate management teams.
But remember, this is rapidly changing and not for the better.
A recent study examining the use of prescribed opioids in Utah after medical cannabis legalization in the state highlights a significant reduction in opioid consumption among patients managing chronic pain. The findings also show a substantial decline in opioid prescription-related deaths since Utah authorized medical marijuana in 2018.
The study highlights the increasing use of cannabis for pain relief and its potential to lessen opiate dependence. It concludes that cannabis could be a promising option as healthcare providers explore safer methods for managing pain, especially for individuals with chronic pain conditions.
The Utah study analyzed 186 chronic pain patients, using data from medical cannabis dispensary transactions and corresponding medical records. The information was de-identified and processed using a HIPAA-compliant system developed by MSA.
The participant group included slightly more females (54%) than males (45%), with the majority (87%) being white. Ages ranged between 23 and 89 years, with an average age of 49. Nearly all participants (98.9%) resided in Utah, while a small portion came from New Mexico and Oregon.
The patients in the study experienced various types of chronic pain. Over half (57%) suffered from musculoskeletal pain, while others dealt with visceral pain (19%), orofacial pain and headache (13%), primary pain (4%), neuropathic pain (3%), and postsurgical or post-traumatic pain (2%).
More than 84% of participants decreased their morphine milligram equivalents (MME), a measure of opioid use. In particular, there was a 53.1% average reduction. Before starting on medical marijuana, the mean opioid use was 3,832 MME per month, which fell to 1,798 MME per month after beginning cannabis treatment.
Patients with musculoskeletal pain accounted for the majority of those who reduced opioid use, while individuals with neuropathic pain experienced the most significant reductions.
Interestingly, the study found that patients with orofacial pain or chronic headaches showed a 20.6% increase in opioid use, while other conditions saw reductions ranging from 10.9% to 73.5%. Additionally, individuals who smoked tobacco before using cannabis reported higher opioid use after starting cannabis treatment. This suggests that specific conditions and behaviors may influence the effectiveness of marijuana as a substitute for opioids.
While the findings show promising results linking medical cannabis to fewer overdose deaths and lower opioid use in Utah, the researchers stressed the need for further investigation. They recommend larger and more diverse studies to validate the findings and improve marijuana-based treatment regimens. They also recommended future research to explore optimal cannabinoid dosages and their effects on different populations.
As more of these studies are undertaken and published, the full extent to which medical cannabis products from various licensed companies like Cresco Labs Inc. (CSE: CL) (OTCQX: CRLBF) are helping patients will gradually be documented.
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In December 2020, my business partner handed me a research paper sent to her from a grower/researcher in Quebec named Sylvain Gaudreau. I had no idea how much of an impact Sylvain and his work would have on me and my approach to propagation in commercial growing facilities. The paper was about a propagation technique that augments a crop’s yield.
Topping Plants
In commercial cultivation, plants are typically propagated through cuttings – a process known as cloning. Many producers use techniques like topping or ‘fimming’ to stimulate the growth of axillary shoots, which increases the number of flowers per plant and, consequently, the overall yield. Topping or fimming is usually done after the cuttings have been in rooting media for about two weeks.
Sylvain and his team tested a new approach to boost shoot development per plant. This method involves topping the mother plant(s) before taking cuttings for cloning, with the cuttings collected one week after the topping. This modification results in faster development of the axillary shoots and reduces the time from cutting to harvest by 7-10 days. This new method requires only minor adjustments to the existing workflow and yields similar results to the standard topping procedure – but it shortens production time by nearly two weeks because the plantlets do not need to recover after topping. This approach leads to faster growth and improved overall productivity.
How Does It Work?
Since the technique is being performed on the mother plant(s), there is a much larger and more robust root system to work with. Within that system lies all of the growth hormones. Topping/fimming stimulates the plant’s survival mechanism.
With the mother in a panicked state, the plant takes all of those growth hormones and distributes them throughout the plant – this creates new apexes to replace what has been removed. Here’s where the genius of Mother Nature comes in – the plant won’t create just one apex, but multiple apex shoots to ensure its survival. With the mother plant growing under stable and favorable conditions – and not in the wild – all new growth will survive, resulting in cuts with multiple apex clones that are charged with more growth hormones than conventionally taken clones.
How Does This Help?
This technique gives the grower pre-topped clones that will have multiple apexes. This eliminates the need for topping once the plantlet leaves propagate, saving the operation 7-10 days of production per crop and a faster time to flipping/kicking the plants into flower. This technique increases yield, gives better uniformity to the canopy, and, most importantly, faster cloning time – which has been the most exciting aspect of early topping (for me!). The cuttings seem to root much quicker than traditionally taken clones. We saw ‘fish bones’ (the start of rooting) within 3-5 days, and our clones were ready for transplant in 10 days, which helped increase our production and the number of crops we could grow in a calendar year.
A Widespread Approach
In the years following Sylvain’s research, it has been discovered that the technique works on most plants that produce flowers. The tobacco industry uses it, as do marigolds (a paper is currently being written on this). The Early Topping Technique is being performed on hemp plants used to scrub the soil around the Joseph V. Stalin nuclear power plant.
In China, cultivating small peas in a vertical growing environment using prolonged periods of light in conjunction with ETT has increased yield tenfold. The Chinese researchers growing the peas published a paper based on their findings and Sylvain’s work.
The Vatican has even downloaded Sylvain’s paper to their horticulture archives for further research. As of the writing of this article, the paper has been downloaded 100,000 times in 102 countries. It has also been tested on over 3000 cultivars with a 100% success rate and has been proven to work commercially in numerous agricultural operations.
As a grower, I want the highest product quality and yield. The Early Topping Technique gives my operations the best chance at achieving those goals. I can’t thank Sylvain enough for his research and time teaching my team about it. If you’d like to read the study, please see the link:
Technology and artificial intelligence can help us grow better plants! The best part is that many brilliant minds are on the ground and in labs, always working to develop innovative ways to make gardening and agriculture more efficient and sustainable. In our list of 5 Cool Ways Tech and AI Benefit the Environment, we take a quick look at some of the latest technologies being used to clean the air, save the bees, and make the future of growing brighter.
Methane Mitigation
A United Nations Environment Programme report points to methane emissions as the driving force behind climate change, with agriculture being the biggest culprit. Livestock accounts for 30% of methane emissions worldwide! Finding ways to curb these emissions is essential to slowing global warming, with the UN recommending a shift towards plant-rich diets, new protein sources, and leveraging new technology in agriculture. Denmark-based company Ambient Carbon specializes in methane mitigation technology and has heard the call. The company has partnered with Benton Group Dairies in Indiana to test a prototype of its Methane Eradication Photochemical System (MEPS), beginning in 2025. This first-of-a-kind, non-invasive, cost-effective technology strives to remove methane from dairy barn exhaust. MEPS uses a patented gas-phase photochemical process combining chlorine atoms and UV light in a reaction chamber, mimicking how the atmosphere naturally destroys methane. Dairy barn air cycles through MEPS, breaking down methane at its source and preventing it from releasing. Ambient Carbon explains the chlorine atoms are generated onside via saltwater electrolysis. After up to 90% of the methane is eradicated, the chlorine is recycled in a closed system.
A researcher at Michigan State University (MSU) who has already made a splash in agricultural irrigation has received a $395,000 grant from the USDA to develop a solar power-based technology that improves energy and water use efficiency. Younsuk Dong, Ph.D., will lead the three-year project. Agriculture accounts for more than 80% of all water consumption in the U.S., and irrigation is responsible for half of that. Overwatering plants leads to unnecessary energy and water expenses and increased pest and disease problems. Dong has already created and field-tested the Low-Cost Monitoring System (LOCOMOS), which lowers the initial cost of in-field irrigation sensors and uses a smartphone app. The sensors collect data on soil and leaf moisture and other environmental conditions. This information is sent to growers with a recommended irrigation schedule. With the grant, MSU is designing a solar-powered microinverter, which connects to a solar panel to use electricity for tasks like soft-starting induction motors for irrigation. The research team at MSU believes the eventual energy savings will be significant, resulting in a more sustainable irrigation model for farms everywhere.
We know all about the uphill battle our pollinators face, but where do they go, what do they do, and how do they migrate? Researchers at Oxford University are trying to answer these questions by fitting bees with tiny radar chips to track their movements and help determine why populations are declining. The Biotracks technology includes the smallest and lightest harmonic radar tags ever made that attach to the back of the bee without affecting how they fly. A drone carries a receiver, and researchers on the ground can access a transmitter and camera to learn more about swarm migration, locate nests, and monitor overall bee behavior. With promising field results, researchers say great things are on the horizon as we strive to save our pollinators and the future of food production.
We keep hearing about the benefits of regenerative agriculture and how it’s part of the climate solution. However, one of the biggest challenges growers face is the lack of a consistent and acceptable measurement system at scale. How do they know if their efforts and investments are paying off? Leading agricultural data and AI-powered tech company Agmatix has launched RegenIQ, a scalable, data-driven framework that helps drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture. RegenIQ focuses on practical efforts and measurable outcomes, offering farmers insight into optimizing practices, improving crop resilience, and ensuring a stable and sustainable food supply. The technology assesses a farm’s soil health, water use, and local biodiversity and climate, strengthening farm resilience. RegenIQ can evaluate crops growing in particular locations to give farmers knowledge to support and scale regenerative growing practices.
It’s no secret that plants and trees are helping fight rising global temperatures by removing carbon from the atmosphere. Scientists with the Salk Institute are helping the plant kingdom do its essential job by optimizing root systems to store more carbon for longer. They’re working on designing climate-saving plants with artificial intelligence software called SLEAP, which tracks the many elements of root growth. This AI was initially used to watch animal movement in labs, but now it’s being applied to measure how deep and wide plant roots grow, which is a long and tedious process without SLEAP. According to phys.org, researchers have since created the most extensive catalog of plant root system phenotypes, accelerating the science behind creating carbon-capturing plants with deep and robust roots that can fight climate change.
Organigram Holdings Inc. says a $90-million deal to buy a cannabis vapes and infused pre-rolls business has made Organigram Canada’s largest recreational pot company by market share.
Organigram’s deal to purchase Motif Labs Ltd. is structured as $50 million in cash and $40 million in Organigram common shares.
Motif shareholders will be entitled to receive an additional $10 million worth of shares, if Organigram achieves certain benchmarks within a year of the transaction closing.
Motif is based in Aylmer, Ont., and its portfolio of brands include Boxhot, Debunk, Boondocks, Rizzlers and Floe State.
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Organigram is based in Moncton, N.B., and is behind the Shred, Trailblazer, Big Bag O’ Buds and Edison Cannabis Co. brands.
Organigram says the deal will give it a 12.4 per cent market share and two more facilities dedicated to cultivation and manufacturing of cannabis.
“The highly complementary acquisition of Motif establishes Organigram as Canada’s largest cannabis company by market share and accelerates our vision to be a leading cannabis company across all major categories,” Organigram CEO Beena Goldenberg said in a statement.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 6, 2024.
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