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BEES AND MARIJUANA
What will you learn from this article?
1. The first marijuana honey created by bees!
2. Can hemp save the dwindling bee population?
3. An angry apiary bit and chased away police officers trying to destroy a marijuana field.
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1. The first marijuana honey created by bees!
For ages, people have been scratching their heads over this ecological issue. Can bee bees be trained to collect pollen from specific cannabis flowers to create honey with highly medicinal properties? Well, one man has proven that it is possible.
Nicholas "Trainerbees"—as he calls himself—is a 39-year-old enthusiast of both marijuana and beekeeping. This incredibly creative French beekeeper perfected his bee training techniques for years, finally announcing the extraordinary results of his work to the world in 2016. He became a living legend among beekeepers and earned the respect of cannabis farmers.
By training the insects to collect cannabis resin, rich in cannabinoids and terpenes, Nicholas became the first person to successfully create this type of honey with medicinal benefits.
"CannaHoney," the result of the collaborative work of the Frenchman and his bees, is a product with significant health benefits stemming from its specific dose of cannabinoids and terpenes derived from a specific strain of marijuana. The idea for the bees, which he calls "CannaBees," to produce honey from hemp was born from his experience using marijuana for medicinal purposes. As a child, he was extremely hyperactive, which led to problems at school. One day, he discovered that the power hidden in cannabis would likely be able to help him.
As a passionate beekeeper, he decided that combining honey, rich in health benefits, with the undiscovered potential of marijuana would be perfect. Even before he achieved the first satisfactory results, a group of people opposed him, claiming that THC and other cannabinoids found in cannabis resin could be harmful to bees.
Nicholas was certain this was not the case, although it would take about two more years for research results to confirm his claim.
"Bees working on cannabinoid honey are not affected by cannabinoids in any way because they do not have a cannabinoid system," he explains to his opponents.
The owner of thirty hives states that his apiaries can withstand virtually any cannabis strain. Therefore, there are endless reserves of potential and possible combinations, which could prove to be a bull's-eye in the fight against a specific health condition.
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2. Can Cannabis Save the Declining Bee Population?
Most cannabis plants flower from July to September, which coincides with a potential lack of pollen production in other crops. This is when small bee noses can migrate from fields where pollen is scarce to marijuana hotspots.
In 2019, researchers from Colorado State University set traps in a hemp field. Over several days, they captured bees during the flowering period.
The journal "Biomass and Bioenergy" reports that nearly 2,000 bees were caught as part of the study. The traps contained 23 species of these insects, including European honeybees. This represented 80% of the bee species found in the study region. Hemp has emerged as a new, pollen-rich source that could help sustain the black-and-yellow beetle population.
The Environmental Protection Agency reports declining bee colony populations across North America due to so-called "stressors." These include pests, exposure to pesticides, and poor nutrition resulting from a lack of adequate pollen.
It's worth noting that industrial hemp doesn't produce nectar, so bees are unable to produce honey from it.
In 2014, then-President Barack Obama's administration established a "Pollinator Health Task Force" aimed at initiating appropriate measures to reverse the decline of bee populations in the US.
3. A furious apiary bit and chased away police officers trying to destroy a marijuana field.
The incident occurred 350 km west of Moscow, in the town of Kostroma on the Volga River. A dozen or so officers invaded a field overgrown with nearly 500 cannabis plants. Their faces and buttocks were stunned, as they were about to experience the ferocity of the stingers they had attacked. It turned out that in the middle of the field were beehives belonging to the landowner.
The bees, enraged by the sight of the blue bees uprooting the plants growing on their honeycombs, gave chase to the intruder. The chase resulted in five severely devoured buttocks, including those of the district police officer and the investigator.
Officer Valery Vekhov commented on the incident: "As part of the operation, officers arrived at the scene after receiving information that a large amount of cannabis was growing in one of the surrounding fields. While we were clearing the field, we saw a row of beehives. And behind it, another one... The insects moved towards us very aggressively and bit furiously as we fled."
The landowner claims that the cannabis had grown wild and he didn't have time to get rid of it. There were nearly 500 of them, and the tallest specimens were two meters tall.
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Have a sweet day, Collectors ;)
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