Science and Cannabis, finally together!

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The principles of science apply everywhere — on an airplane and in a submarine, on Mars and on Venus, to bugs and plants. What makes an oak grow? Why does a lilac smell sweet?

At the Cannabis Genomic Research Initiative (CGRI), we too study a plant, just like other scientists have studied wheat, sunflowers, tobacco, and thousands more. It’s just that our subject has been taboo for decades, and therefore un-studied. We know very, very little about Cannabis. Now, legalization is opening up research opportunities for those of us who are scientists living in Colorado.

 

We deal with plants called AK-47 and Durban Poison, but we use scientific language and scientific methodologies. The DNA extracted from Cannabis is sequenced using specialized equipment, then we use that information to establish differences between strains; we determine whether its current classification corresponds to its DNA; we make hypotheses about it; and we test these hypothesis using...

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