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Yes, breeding for disease resistance and filial vigor is important! Relying on heirlooms is hit and miss in the fruit and vegetable world, rarely if ever does the yields of heirlooms equal newer hybrids, based in part on the heirlooms heritage. The insects and funguses evolve and adopt to take advantage. When in doubt bet on the bug, cock roaches and some of their ilk precede mankind. And likely as not will survive our demise as a species on Mother Earth.

Is herb legal where you reside?

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain

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and count the shovels as well!

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Yes the testing both for purity potency and in acceptable levels of toxins is what I would desire and expect. California's standards go beyond the National Organic Program? Just the state as a certifying agency? Because I think several large certifying agents serve other states as well. Most certifying agencies rely on the standards set by the NOP. And individual states can restrict inputs beyond the list allowed by the feds Maryland does and I suspect others would too, but only for food produced in their state. For example Maryland prohibits use of sulfuric acid to lower soil ph, fearing Al toxicity. But I don't know how they can prevent blueberries from a state which allows that input in organic production from selling those berries as organic in California. Wait I kind of think I answered my own ? this is or should be down the rabbit hole. FWIW I don't think the national standards recognize organic mary jane as either a medicine or a food additive I'm not sure of American spirits cigs they state organic tobacco is in their products. One can get organic booze.

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less is more

It is true the more laws the more criminals. Trust has to be mutual between the producer and the consumer and easier on a small local level. "The down side of legalizing weed imo is that pesticides are allowed." And their not allowed in illegal production? I read horror stories of illegal pesticides and spills of nutrients in illegal production of weed on public lands out west ... Naturally grown has no true meaning, for example an artificially inseminated pig, fed synthetic food, will grow naturally. And sadly without national standards the word label organic has no real meaning. Finding the balance of protecting the public with as little regulation as possible.

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The scariest part of illegal drugs, besides the violence associated with their production and or sale of course is the lack of standards for both production and for potency.

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Wax? sorry for my ignorance...

Mauchly's sphericity test

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