Toxic Heavy Metals? Cannabis to Blame or FERTILIZERS?
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Cannabis Users Have Higher Levels of Toxic Heavy Metals in Their Bodies
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/19466870.html#19466932
Because the cannabis plant is a known scavenger of metals, we hypothesized that individuals who use marijuana will have higher metal biomarker levels compared with those who do not use.
Our results suggest marijuana is a source of cadmium and lead exposure.
https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12074
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP12074
Cadmium and Heavy Metals in Cannabis Fertilizer
I’m new to growing marijuana and I’m concerned about the safety of an organic liquid fertilizer I found here in Australia. The bottle states, “This product contains heavy metal impurities, it’s use may result in accumulation of cadmium in the soil”.
In the U.S. there are no requirements to post heavy metal warnings
November 21, 2016
https://marijuanagrowershq.com/cadmium-in-cannabis-fertilizers/
Effect of uncontrolled fertilization and heavy metal toxicity associated with arsenic(As), lead(Pb) and cadmium (Cd), and possible remediation
But the excessive uses of chemical fertilizers are showing negative influence on the environmental and public health.
The paper mainly focuses on how the excessive use of chemical fertilizers are affecting the soil health as well as the water bodies by accumulating heavy metals (HMs) and other chemical elements present in them and the possible remediation measures.
July 2022
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35905945/
The EU’s strategic problem is that its farmers are overwhelmingly dependent on North and West Africa for phosphate. Some 70 percent of EU imports come from countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Senegal and Togo, where there is usually a cadmium level of far more than 20mg/kg.
If the EU now makes a dramatic decision to reduce the permissible level of cadmium, European farmers will to some extent be pushed to switch to imports from Russia, where the phosphate has far lower natural levels of the metal.
September 13, 2016
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-unexpected-conflict-the-phosphate-war-cadmium-fertilizer-russia/
Cadmium is a common impurity in phosphatic fertilizers and may contribute to soil Cd accumulation.
(1 September 2009)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.05.045
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969709005221?via%3Dihub