We do not need solutions to the ills of the world. We need to remove the cause of the problem and that is ignorance and arrogance. These are inseparable partners in the war on human awareness and innate intelligence. The stupidity of ignorance can only survive through the blindness of arrogance. They need each other for their mutual prosperity.
Einstein said: “The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”
Following the crowd is how we got up this creek with the paddle missing and to remove the cause of the problem we need a mass awakening of Mind to Consciousness, limitation to All Possibility. There are no limits to possibility, only a sense of the possible. We impose that on ourselves – thus we can also set ourselves free of such debilitating restriction.
Da Vinci said: ‘The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.’ Yes and what are opinions? They are only the result of personal background, prejudice and access to perceived knowledge, and yet they seamlessly morph into solidified ‘fact’.
Most of science and almost all public perception of ‘fact’ is little more than opinion and assumption repeated into general acceptance. There is no way we can prevent what is planned for humanity unless the blinkers of belief are cast aside and the power of information and insight dictates our sense of reality instead of programmed perception.
We can’t change the world until we change ourselves because the world is a collective expression of the human totality. You can have all the protest marches and demonstrations that you like, but without an expansion of awareness we will stay on the hamster wheel made possible only by programmed ignorance.
Currently, the vast majority of people are the victims of their own myopia and cannot see beyond their race, culture, religion, job, political preference, sexuality and societal programming. The few – though fast growing in number – see all this as an irrelevant diversion from the big picture of global control and abuse of all races, cultures, religions, jobs, political preferences, sexualities and societal programs. They also see it as a diversion from the even greater truth that we are all ONE Awareness having different experiences.
This is Da Vinci’s point that humanity must learn to see and realize that everything connects to everything else. To the majority, a distorted perception based upon ignorance is the only truth, and knowledge and awareness is a heresy.
Knowledge and awareness is dangerous to all authority because by definition it means that people are connecting the dots and seeing what they really are when connected together. Once the picture comes into focus all aspects of authority and the belief systems on which it stands come crashing down in an explosion of life-changing insight.
If you are a cog, but see yourself and the other cogs as individuals doing your own thing, you will never see what is really going on. But once you see the machine then your perception is immediately transformed and the true nature of your daily existence becomes blindingly obvious.
Education, science, medicine, politics and media are all founded on a belief in the known. The known is basically the holographic realm of what is called the physical world, and the unknown is the unseen infinity of waveform information and pure consciousness from which the holographic illusion is decoded and made manifest.
The known is the domain of the five senses – can I see it, hear it, touch it, taste it or smell it? These questions therefore become the arbiters of perceived existence or non-existence. Education is about teaching the known to the next generation of programmed ‘knowers’ while academics, scientists and doctors are looked upon in awe because they are perceived to know more than others about the known.
But what is this ‘known’? It is what they believe is known, what they have been told is known and nothing more. It was known that the Earth was flat and this ‘known’ was preached and imposed upon generations galore in the great centres of alleged ‘education’; but it was wrong all the same. The known is only ‘I believe it is known’ but it is the very foundation of human society. You can only truly learn by uncovering the unknown. Everything else is repeating.
When your job, status and even sense of self and security come from the known there is a built-in incentive to ignore or trash the unknown. The known fears the unknown because the more the unknown reveals its secrets the more the known loses its omnipotence and dominance of perception. How funny this is when what is perceived as the known is only a decoded figment of the unknown’s imagination.
The dream is the dreamer but can only see the dream. The known is the unknown but can only see the known. This ‘known’, the holographic illusion, is where people invent and worship their beliefs while the realms of waveform and pure Consciousness connect everything as One.
The control system demands for its very survival that the mentality of ignorance be constantly maintained and so ‘visionaries’ have always been sought out and targeted by the authorities of the day. True visionaries are so immensely threatening to the prevailing order which needs to lasso human perception and tie it to the hologram.
These are some definitions of ‘normal’:
♦ Conforming with, adhering to, or constituting a norm, standard, pattern, level, or type; typical.
♦ Relating to or characterized by average intelligence or development.
♦ Free from mental illness; sane.
So ‘normal’ is conforming to a standard or typical pattern. But what dictates and constitutes ‘standard and typical’? The perceptions and behavior of the majority. It is the majority’s perceptions and behavior that become the standard and typical ‘normal’.
The term is also ‘characterized by average intelligence or development’ and so to be above average intelligence makes you abnormal. And here’s the punch line … to be normal is to be ‘free from mental illness; sane’. Everything is inverted as usual. To be free from mental illness and sane is to conform with, adhere to, or constitute a norm, standard, pattern, level or type; typical; and to relate or be characterized by average intelligence or development.
But how do they define average intelligence or development? It is the average compared with all the others who believe only in the perceived known. Those that see beyond the ‘known’ are, by definition, too intelligent to be considered ‘normal’, but not normal enough to be considered ‘free from mental illness; sane’. It’s hysterical.
If you are born into a madhouse, and you know nothing else, then madness to you is normal. It is still crazy, but it’s normal crazy masquerading as sanity. Welcome to Planet Earth, a standard, typical, normal, madhouse where civilians are bombed to protect them from violence, children starve in a world of plenty, people borrow money that doesn’t exist and pay interest on it. Food is a form of poison and the inmates can’t see how comprehensively they are being shafted because they are too busy following their football team and watching Eastenders and X Factor.
To grasp what is really going on here we have to disconnect the terms ‘sane’ and ‘normal’ because they are not at all interchangeable; and we have to realize that what is termed ‘normal’ is an advanced form of insanity. Once people get that, everything makes sense and falls into place.
Don’t try to make sense of the world on the basis that the world is sane and therefore try to work out why intelligent people would make decisions that cause daily death, destruction, suffering and deprivation. The people making those decisions are mad and demented, and that is why their actions are mad and demented.
Those tracts of the population that support those actions and can make rational sense of them are an extension of the same madness and dementia. It is simple cause and effect. The world is mad because those running the world and much of the population are in a state of madness. The point is, though, that they don’t have to be.
Madness is only extreme myopia and ignorance and both are the creation of a closed and padlocked mind. Open your mind beyond myopia and ignorance and this madness will take care of itself. Gone. This process is far simpler than people believe (what you believe you perceive and what you perceive you experience). It means only to open your sense of the possible to All Possibility.
Most people have a belief system and anything outside of that must prove itself (on their terms) to be possible. In other words, All Possibility is constantly on trial with the belief system as the judge. How about taking All Possibility as the norm and making anything that speaks of the impossible justify itself? Running a mile in four minutes was considered impossible until someone did it by a fraction and then many others followed in the knowledge – the belief – that it could be done. Humanity’s sense of the possible and obsession with the impossible are the greatest enslavers of real progress.
The foundation of any challenge to control must be, has to be and cannot be anything else but the opening and awakening of Mind to Consciousness outside the Matrix. Without that we should go home and do what we can to prepare for the inevitable extremes of the tyranny that is heading our way so quickly. People can stockpile all the weapons they like, organize all the protests they like and attack the Control System all they like, but in the end it won’t matter.
The Control System is what it is and what it is becoming because the mass of humanity is trapped in the perceptions of Mind. The controllers are mind parasites, after all. But they cannot parasitize, manipulate and program Consciousness because it is well out of their range. Believers in religion, politics and mainstream science are all underpinning the Control System agenda by falling for their game – their mind game.
The character in the Matrix trilogy, called the Trainman, said of his domain:
‘You don’t get it. I built this place. Down here I make the rules. Down here I make the threats. Down here, I’m God.’
It was in these terms that the Gnostics described our world in relation to the Demiurge and the Archons. When you are entrapped in the five senses, and their associated mind, your perception of reality is what the Archons tell you it is.
The Control System can only have any effect in the realm of the mind and the ‘physical’ senses. Once you open to All Possibility, your point of attention – of perception – expands into the realms of Consciousness. From there the game is so easy to understand, but without that understanding how can anyone make an informed and effective judgement on how to respond to the global situation that we face?
Self-identity is the key to everything. You are the All That Is, All-Knowing, All Possibility. But your attention is currently focused on a tiny range of frequency called visible light and that focus is given names and labels like John and Amy, Caucasian and Jew, rich and poor.
So which ‘you’ are you going to identify with? Do you self-identify with what you really are or only with what you are experiencing? John and Amy, Caucasian and Jew, rich and poor are all figments of the illusion and if that is your only self-identity then the Matrix rules your perception because you have no other point of reference for what is happening to you and the world.
Your life this far has been dictated by who you thought you were. Change what you think you are and you will change what you perceive and experience. Together we will change what we all perceive and experience. There is no way out of where we are unless there is a transformation of our sense of self from the self-identity that put us where we are.
The more you move your point of attention to the heart the more our suicidal society becomes self-evident. The Archons have transformed a heart society into a gut society to make humanity easy to scam, manipulate and control. In the spirit of removing the cause of the problem we have to change it back again. The heart and associated heart vortex, or chakra, are our prime connection to the infinite forever. The brain is supposed to be its servant not its master, but the Archon hijack could not have got anywhere close to where it is without the brain usurping the pre-eminence of the heart.
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) had the insight that comes from going beyond time and saw through the official version of reality. It was Bruno who said: ‘the Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it’ and ‘heroic love is the property of those superior natures who are called insane, not because they do not know, but because they over-know’.
The known fears the unknown. What Bruno, Da Vinci and others tapped into for their insight may always have been there, but it can only be accessed by opening the mind and crucially the heart. This is the gift of heart intelligence. The heart views everything from outside the illusion. It is in this world, but not of it. As a result, people with heart intelligence are seen as crazy and impossible to fathom or understand.
The brain is not the source of anything. It is the conduit, the biological computer system, which responds to information stimuli and makes it conscious in terms of five-sense perception and behavior. Different areas of the brain become activated, or ‘light up’, when energetic information is received that relates to a specific role in decoding and communicating information to the holographic conscious mind.
The information can come from the heart and the greater Consciousness (what some call the soul), or it can come from direct Archontic possession and the endless Archontic programs such as education, science, medicine, media, politics etc. Once you open yourself to heart intelligence – innate intelligence, universal intelligence – the ‘opposition’ is routed and the heart and brain speak as one.
The Archons target the heart vortex in the way they have structured society and lock people into the emotional chakra in the gut. Positive feelings and perceptions like love and joy (high frequency) come from the heart. The idea is to block the influence of the heart by giving people so many reasons to feel fear, anxiety, stress and depression.
Stress causes heart disease because it stems the flow of energy through the heart chakra and causes it to form a chaotic field that becomes more intense the longer the stress continues. This distortion is transferred through to the holographic heart and there you have the reason why in a fearful and stressed society that heart disease is a mass global killer.
The heart vortex and its massive electromagnetic field is where human perception has been most effectively hijacked and we need to reverse that. Nothing is more important than this for those who truly want to free themselves from Archontic tyranny. If people think they can meet this challenge with anger, hatred or violent revolution they should feel free to waste their time.
No shift from gut to heart = global tyranny. Shift from gut to heart = game over. It is possible to override and bypass the brain altogether and in fact this must be done to go beyond ‘time and space’. This is what Da Vinci, Bruno and others were doing.
Normally information enters what we call the conscious mind through the brain with all the potential interference, blocks and filters caused by belief, emotion and other programming. But if you move your point of attention from the body out into the infinity beyond the Matrix you can make a direct connection between expanded insight and your own awareness.
The ‘cavalry’ hasn’t come to you – you have gone to the ‘cavalry’. With the insight absorbed by your expanded point of attention you can bring that back to five-sense reality through the heart as intuitive knowing and not as mere thought which is routed through the brain. This is how we can tap into infinite insight and inspired knowing and bring it through into this reality in a pure and untarnished form.
About the Author: Julian Websdale is an independent researcher in the fields of esoteric science and metaphysics, and a self-initiate of the Western Esoteric Tradition. His interest in these subjects began in 1988.
Ontario passed legislation this week that, among other things, bans growing cannabis in homes where childcare services are provided and further allows the province to enter into agreements with First Nations communities to support cannabis regulations on reserves.
Bill 157, Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024, which passed on March 5 and received Royal Assent on March 6, includes the two amendments to Ontario’s Cannabis Control Act.
The amendment related to childcare specifically prohibits the cultivation, propagation, or harvesting of cannabis in dwellings in which child care, as defined in Ontario’s Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014, is provided.
The rule creates an exception for in-home childcare services, which is defined as child care provided at the child’s home, or place where residential care is provided for the child, and there is an agreement between a home childcare agency and the care provider that provides for the agency’s oversight of the provision of care.
British Columbia has had a similar restriction on home cultivation and consumption in childcare settings since 2018.
The Bill was introduced by the Ontario Conservatives, and while it did receive support from the opposition NDP, at least one member questioned the need for these changes.
Kristyn Wong-Tam, the NDP critic for the Attorney General, critic for small business, and member of the Standing Committee on Justice Policy, questioned the need for the rule change, calling it a “non-issue,” and admonishing the government for recent policy changes that allow companies to operate up to 150 cannabis stores in the province, an increase from a previous cap of 75. That rule change came into effect in January
“I wonder why the government would make such a hoopla about a non-issue like cannabis in childcare facilities and then move to quietly advance the centralization and the consolidation of big cannabis corporations by giving them much more expansion power,” said Wong-Tam while the bill was being debated in the House.
“I have heard from small cannabis businesses who fear this will hurt them, and I have heard from larger cannabis businesses who believe that the limits on the numbers of cannabis stores that a company can have are too low,” Wong-Tam added in an email to StratCann. “I wish that understanding this decision played a larger role in the debate. When I reached out to cannabis stakeholders, many informed me that I was the first MPP to ever ask them how Ontario’s legislation could be enhanced. I invite cannabis stakeholders to engage their provincial government more regularly at Queen’s Park so we can learn from you about what your businesses need.”
“I invite cannabis stakeholders to engage their provincial government more regularly at Queen’s Park so we can learn from you about what your businesses need.”
Kristyn Wong-Tam, Ontario NDP
The second piece of legislation related to cannabis was a change to the provincial cannabis act, allowing the province to enter into agreements with First Nations communities to support cannabis regulations on reserves.
Any such agreements would require any regulations created by First Nations to adhere to provincial and federal regulations while providing a chance for band councils to oversee their own retail cannabis business in their communities.
There are currently only seven licensed recreational cannabis retailers on First Nation reserves in Ontario, while many others operate outside of the provincial framework and, at times, outside the framework of the First Nations government within the reserve that they operate in.
During the bill’s second reading, Doug Downy, Ontario’s Attorney General, said the legislation was created in concert with First Nations communities and leadership.
“This comes on the heels of much conversation with First Nations partners and communities,” said Downy, “and the aspirations they have for a safe and regulated market to protect their youth and their communities, just as we seek to do the same in the rest of the province of Ontario.”
Previously, the provincial cannabis regulations authorized the Minister to enter into arrangements and agreements with a council of the band with respect to specific cannabis regulation issues on a reserve.
Under the newly added language, provincial legislation will authorize the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make regulations to implement the arrangement or agreement. These regulations can then modify or clarify the application of the Act, and establish requirements that apply on a reserve and incorporate rules established by the council of the band.
Featured image: Rama Cannabis, one of the seven provincially-regulated cannabis stores currently operating within First Nations communities in Ontario
Virginia lawmakers have recently given their final nod to legislation aiming to legalize the retail sale of cannabis, slated to commence from May 1, 2025. This decision, following several weeks of negotiations, now awaits the approval of Governor Glenn Youngkin.
Both the Senate and House of Delegates endorsed similar versions of the measures on Feb. 28, 2024, reconciling differences after amendments from a committee in the Senate threatened to disrupt the agreement between the two chambers. Later, each chamber approved the bills from the other, forwarding them to the governor for potential enactment.
A prior Democratic-led measure from 2021 allowed for the possession, use and restricted cultivation of marijuana in Virginia. However, GOP legislators obstructed the necessary reconstruction of regulations for retail sales when they took control of the governor’s office and the House, which resulted in the creation of illegal establishments to satisfy consumer demand.
Even with legislative approval, retail sales are not guaranteed to be legal. While Youngkin has not stated whether he intends to veto the measure, he made it clear last month that he was not interested in legalizing Democratic-led cannabis sales.
Democrats introduced competing bills (SB 448 and HB 698), but in recent weeks, law makers have worked towards consensus and compromise. This week marked the culmination of multiple amendments in committees and on both floors until a consensus was eventually reached.
While there were some parallels between the prior versions of the laws, there were also notable differences, including the approach to social equality, the taxation rate, the opening time for retail establishments and the authorization for outdoor marijuana growing. The tax issue was the final obstacle before the votes. Last week, a compromise was proposed that would impose a 9% tax on cannabis sales — 4.5% state tax and an optional 4.5% local tax. However, a committee in the Senate broke from the agreement, raising the tax rate in HB 698 to a little more than 17%.
Subsequent floor amendments in both chambers then restored harmony to the tax provisions. As a result, the combined tax rates for both measures are now 11.625% — 8% state tax, 2.5% optional local tax and 1.125% state sales taxes to fund education.
The measures narrowly passed both chambers. The Senate passed HB 698 by a vote of 21 to 18, while the House approved SB 448 by a 51-to-47 vote. The amended measures were later approved by both chambers by the same voting margins.
The entire cannabis industry, including leading companies such as SNDL Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDL), is likely to welcome the eventual launch of recreational marijuana sales in Virginia as that would be a major step forward in rolling back prohibition.
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Mark Carter’s – Ascension Intention-From Shadow to Light!
Divine Flow or Human Control?
As more Cosmic Light energizes Planet Earth via solar changes, revealing previously obscured realities, we each have a choice to make. We can continue to cling to past patterns that provided a sense of predictability and security, or we can let go and trust that Higher Forces are bouncing or vaulting us into fresh opportunities that favor our spiritual expansion.
A linear, materialistic worldview allows the human mind to believe that it can foretell the future based on past patterns and predictable trajectories. Our choosing to cultivate presence, however, encourages us to feel deeply, to be more acutely aware of our surroundings and energy flows in the living moment.
It may be a big surprise to many people that we have far more ability to choose our destiny than we had been conditioned to believe, or to let go and go with Flow. Manifestation begins with attention: by focusing our thoughts and feelings on a specific outcome, we can align our actions purposefully and cue unseen forces to outpicture the specific result we desire. But if we hold more deep-seated drives, those may trump our consciously chosen goals.
If unacknowledged forces thwart what we believe we want, should we strive harder, or should we give up control? When interference presents itself, that can encourage us to delve deeper into our motivations, and also to examine the nature of the resistance that’s presenting itself to us. Instead of attaching ourselves emotionally to the interference, we have the option of observing it – and either correcting course, or activating spiritual fire to consume the obstructing energy.
We can view the interference as a gift, prompting us to intensify the motives for our desired outcome. We can also take the opportunity to enlarge our perspective, viewing the resistance as a signal to become more aware of the energy patterns around our lives, and adjust accordingly.
So it’s helpful to cultivate gratitude and patience during our life journey, realizing that what our conscious mind desires in its preferred timing is sometimes socially conditioned, not always what best serves our spiritual development. By reminding ourselves to bring our awareness back to our Heart center, we can practice feeling more deeply the herenow, and gain greater sensitivity to fresh opportunities as they present themselves for our consideration.
I wish you fulfillment in achieving even more profound breakthroughs than you had consciously desired, with feelings of surprise and delight!
Although they may not look it, viable seeds are alive with the structures of future plants inside. These incredible little packages contain the genetics of their ancestors and stores of energy to make germination and the healthy growth of roots and first photosynthesizing leaves possible.
What is dormancy?
Dormancy is a state of deep rest, during which seeds remain viable and resist destruction until acceptable germination conditions are met. It can be thought of as hibernation, where the metabolism of the living seed slows, preserving its resources and protecting itself from environmental hazards.
Once a seed is in this mode, breaking dormancy is necessary to germinate. Growers have learned to improve seeding success rates by using techniques that break dormancy (if relevant) and kickstart the germination process. There is so much variation among plants regarding the anatomy of their seeds. Therefore, whether a process at the cellular level acts more as dormancy-breaking or germination-promoting is a complex topic.
Entire books have been written about seed dormancy, and researchers continue to study its mechanisms. It is especially relevant to producing commercial and food/medicine security crops, especially as the qualities of growing conditions in a given location change.
For cultivators, it is good to know that slow or low germination may not mean a whole collection of seeds is dead. They may be hedging their bets about whether it’s a good time to commit to growing!
Why do seeds go into dormancy?
Seeds enter dormancy when the plant’s continued survival depends on factors not present at seed maturity. For example, plants that grow annually, producing seeds in response to the conditions of ripening brought on by the shortening day length and lower temperatures, need their seeds to survive a cold winter before germination in a future period of warmth.
If they don’t get to grow right away, like in a controlled cultivation environment where seeds are harvested and re-planted within a few weeks, fully developed seeds enter dormancy. Generally, the longer a seed rests after maturity, the more likely it is to become dormant.
The more particular a variety of plant is about what conditions it needs to find to live also influences its tendency to go and remain dormant.
What are the types of dormancy?
Seeds of different plants undergo varied types of dormancy, and it’s not unusual to find that more than one type of dormancy is at play. How a species disperses its seeds, and the chances of finding optimal growing conditions have had evolutionary and adaptive influences on the kinds of dormancy experienced by a particular type of plant.
A simplified categorization of seed dormancy types separates them into two main categories. Endogenous (characteristics of the plant embryo) dormancy is either physical, chemical, or mechanical. Exogenous dormancy can be physiological, where the seed has germination-inhibiting qualities that must be overcome. It can also be morphological, where the seed has to finish developing the embryo before it will germinate, or a combination of the two.
How do seeds break dormancy in nature?
In nature, seeds receive signals from their environment, which influence them to leave the state of dormancy and enter stages of pre-germination, germination, and seedling growth.
Depending on the type of seed, combinations of triggers play their parts in inducing a seed to break dormancy. These include exposure to light wavelengths, temperatures (including fire!), moisture, various chemicals, and physical damage to the protective seed coat.
When should a grower actively help a seed break dormancy?
Seeds that have been dormant for long periods are usually more difficult to “convince” to break dormancy. They have characteristics that make them resilient against fluctuations in their environment that would cause false or slow starts to germination, either of which reduces the eventual plant’s likelihood of thriving.
This means older seeds may be very capable of growing but resist germination under the same conditions in which more recently harvested seeds happily sprout. Even within populations of seeds grown, harvested, processed, and stored together, some variation in dormancy has been observed. Using dormancy-breaking techniques can help ensure a more even germination rate, encouraging early development stages to occur on a similar timeline for seeds being planted simultaneously.
Most stored seeds are likely dormant, so it is wise to consider using techniques that both support rapid germination and speak loudly, telling these sleeping seeds it’s time to wake up!
Give ’em a Break
As there are different types of dormancy, various techniques exist to bring them out of slumber.
Cold stratification is when wet seeds of hot-weather annuals are exposed to temperatures between 0 and 10°C and placed in an optimized growing environment.
Warm stratification is used for plants that make spring seeds, persist through the summer heat, and then germinate and begin growth in autumn. In this case, the plants themselves go into a state of rest before growing again the following year.
Scarification is a broad term for a varied set of other dormancy-breaking and germination-enabling tactics. Coming from the root word “scar,” meaning to scratch, its name implies some intentional damage to the self-preserving structures of a seed. Scarification may allow the seed to absorb water more readily by either using physical means to break down its hard shell (sometimes called “scuffing”) or chemicals that soften or dissolve the outer parts of a seed.
Sometimes, this is a biochemical trigger, an effect of enzymes made by fungi and bacteria found in natural soil, or suggesting the presence of these species and the roots of companion host plants. Dissolved molecules containing oxygen within a soaking liquid can also have a chemical effect on a seed’s interior, genetically regulated processes.
Another type of physical scarification, known as ‘nicking’, is when a grower purposefully removes a portion of the seed’s tip to reduce the effort of root emergence.
Other dormancy-breaking interventions include subjecting seeds to temperature extremes, high-pressure applications, radiation, ultrasound, and percussion. This broad diversity of tactics makes it clear growers should employ techniques proven by research (traditional wisdom, grassroots, or academic) for the specific seed types under cultivation.
Because it acts like a starting pistol for all the seeds being treated, scarification has been linked with seeds responding well to a broader range of conditions. Energy saved in the germination process can mean more is available for robust early plant development.
This is especially beneficial in a production environment where plants of different subtypes are grown together because it simplifies scheduling and reduces duplicating tasks.
When should a grower start this process?
When working with a new package of seeds purchased from a commercial producer, it’s best to consider their suggestions for pre-treatment, germination, and planting timelines. However, if you are creatively stretching your growing season (including planting seeds of more advanced or unknown age) and can begin your new plants’ lives in a controlled environment, use dormancy-breaking tactics to artificially speed up ‘spring’ and get to summer faster!
You Break it, You Bought it
‘Buy in’ and commit to the seeds before setting the dormancy-breaking alarm. This is especially crucial if you intend to physically damage hard-shelled seeds because they will be more susceptible to pathogens. Line up the stewarded ecosystem, accounting for all elements: planting medium, air quality, temperature, lighting, moisture, and select companion species.
Don’t Hit the Snooze Button
Research shows seeds’ protective structures can transmit information about the nature of the external space. This signaling sparks reactions inside the seed: false starts communicate uncertainty and break action chains. Once these activities begin, vigorous growth with minimum delay or disruption gets seedlings off to establish themselves.
As exciting as it is to get your new little green friends ready for the garden, if they’re ready too soon, asking them to wait in small pots or under less intense lighting can be detrimental to future vitality and yields. Rapid growth is one way seedlings evade disease, outpacing exposures during periods of vulnerability and responding quickly with good immunity in later stages of life.
Reference your experience and other data about the planned grow environment to schedule stratification and/or scarification. Don’t forget to add time for hardening off if young plants will be transferred from a cozy indoor setting to a less-predictable outdoor space.
Final thoughts
Dormancy is an important factor when raising plants from seeds. As cultivators, we can learn a lot if we “think like the plants.” Seed-producing species have evolved complex mechanisms for survival through uncertainty. For our own sake, we must do the same and not assume there will always be an accessible outside source of new seeds each time a new grow is planned.
We can also never be entirely sure of our future ability to fine-tune and control growth conditions, nor that the seeds will be uniform over generations of breeding. Banking seeds in proper storage conditions, respecting and understanding the various types of dormancy, and refining techniques for breaking this state by mimicking nature are all facets of resilience.
Whether your seeds are groggy or have gone deep into suspended animation, use dormancy-breaking techniques to shake off the cobwebs and help them rise and shine!
Marijuana contains more than 100 compounds, the major ones being tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). Of the two primary compounds, THC induces a high when consumed while CBD does not. Research has found that some of marijuana’s compounds safeguard the brain’s neurons.
Some of marijuana’s antioxidant properties can also fight oxidative stress, which influences aging. Oxidative stress refers to a disruption in the balance between antioxidant defenses and the production of free radicals in the body.
With regard to aging, age-related decreases in physiologic functions are caused by an accumulation of oxidative damage to macromolecules. This, researchers believe, increases with age. Marijuana is said to work by slowing down cellular damage. This suggests that in addition to getting you high, marijuana may also be the key to improving your golden years.
This finding comes as studies into how marijuana affects cognitive function in older individuals continues to gain momentum. Initial research suggests a positive link between improved cognitive performance and moderate use of marijuana in the aging population.
Moderate use of the drug is key, with researchers noting that the relationship between cognitive performance, marijuana and aging involves consideration of both frequency and dosage.
These aren’t marijuana’s only benefits either, as the drug has also shown promise in pain management and reducing inflammation. Chronic pain is common in older individuals, which means marijuana could offer some relief, especially when conventional drugs fall short.
There are risks to marijuana use, however, especially for older individuals. For instance, THC’s psychoactive effects vary among people and can affect those with pre-existing mental health disorders as well as those with lower tolerance. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind that while cognitive function may improve when the drug is used in moderation, not managing consumption carefully may result in cognitive impairment.
Furthermore, marijuana’s interactions with other drugs should also be considered. Older people with prescriptions to manage other conditions should ensure that marijuana doesn’t negatively interact with their other prescriptions.
It should be noted that the link between aging and marijuana is not standard for everybody. Individual responses may vary, stemming from different factors such as lifestyle choices, genetics and existing health conditions. This highlights the need for personalized approaches when considering marijuana for age-related concerns.
This field of study is also still growing, with researchers working toward better understanding how marijuana affects the aging process and if it enhances quality of life.
In the meantime, people accessing cannabis products from licensed companies such as Software Effective Solutions Corp. (d/b/a MedCana) (OTC: SFWJ) can continue using those products for medical or recreational reasons, as long as they avoid excessive consumption. Anything taken in excess can have unwelcome effects.
NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to Software Effective Solutions Corp. (d/b/a MedCana) (OTC: SFWJ) are available in the company’s newsroom at https://ibn.fm/SFWJ
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