As a cash crop, growers rely on synthetics and chemicals to guarantee the growth of their plants. These synthetic pesticides can be transferred into cannabis smoke at a rate as high as 70%, allowing chemicals to enter the bloodstream without traveling through the digestive system directly.

Processed products including oils, waxes, edibles, and others made from extracts that concentrate the active ingredients in cannabis may also concentrate pesticide residues.

The Journal of Toxicology states that they found levels of pesticide residue in medicinal plants as high as 69.5%. Even organic farms are often at risk of suffering pesticide contamination from nearby crops treated with these substances.

Growing Cannabis With Neem

Azadirachtin, a vital substance extracted from the seeds of the neem tree, does not poison insects as synthetic pesticides do. Instead, it triggers a stop-eating response, so bugs starve to death. Neem is effective against many pests, including aphids, beetles, cockroaches, flies, fruit flies, fungal infections, grasshoppers, leaf miners, mosquitoes, moths, nematodes, snails, spider mites and thrips.

Since 2010, field trials on medicinal plants treated with the pure essence of neem were conducted in seven US states, all with positive results. The trial groups showed improved plant health and increased yields at an average of 55.6%, and as much as 82.7%.

In field trials, six strains of medicinal plants that were sprayed with neem and showed the following improvement:

• Green Crack: 29.7%
• Purple Afghani: 64.9%
• Fire Bubba Kush: 47.5%
• Master Kush: 61.4%
• Critical Mass: 82.7%
• Burmese Kush: 50.2%

Commercial growers who grow with neem have gone on to win awards at various High Times Cannabis Cups. The Strongest Strain on Earth winner, Ghost Train Haze #1, was grown by Michigan’s King of Cannabis, the Leaf Doctor, who swears by neem products.

Neem offers a natural solution for commercial and home growers who want to guarantee that their cannabis plants are safe for consumption. To discover the myriad of benefits that neem offers, check out our other blog entrances here.

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Synthetic chemicals for insect repellents are extremely expensive to create, test, and market. A single product will cost around $250 million to produce and development will span over 10 years. With the insecticide market in the United Stated at $100 million in 2016, incentive for new products is low. This has allowed a mere two insecticide classes, pyrethroids and organophosphates, to dominate the marketplace for the past 60 years.

These two overused synthetic chemical classes pose a more deadly problem: mosquitoes are developing resistance. This means that the diseases that once plagued and continue to kill thousands of people each year, could return to wreak further havoc around many areas of the world. That is, unless we utilize alternative solutions at newphaseblends.com.

According to the American Mosquito Control Association, neem contains antiprotozoal compounds that deters and repels mosquitoes. Neem can deter many different types of mosquitoes, including those that carry the Zika virus. All you need is neem oil! Instead of spending millions of dollar developing new, synthetic, toxic insecticides, we can rely on the natural power of a single tree!

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Neem formulations have been evaluated against 600 species of insects and more than 400 are reported to be susceptible at low concentrations. Many commercial formulations of neem have received the relevant certifications for dustribution across various agri-dominant regions of the world including the United States and Europe. Neem is currently being used as an effective pesticide protecting a variety of staple crops such as corn, tomato, soy, and cabbage.

Neem has come to the forefront as the model botanical biopesticide for the new millennium.

Source: Neem: Today and in the New Millennium

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