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The Open Cannabis Project Is Recording Strains to Protect the Industry from Commercialization

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 04/27/2016 - 09:34

The Open Cannabis Project is building a record of all existing cannabis strains to protect the industry from commercialization.

Mowgli Holmes knows what he wants. When I call him, he quips almost immediately: “What I want to happen is for Snoop to come to my lab, put on a white lab coat and orange safety goggles, and smoke a gigantic joint in front of the DNA sequencer. That’s what I want to happen.”

It’s a PR stunt the biotech cannabis labs could use. Theirs has been a weathered brand.

“Everybody’s first reaction when they hear we are a cannabis lab company is we want to steal their s**** and sell it and patent it to Monsanto,” Mowgli, Chief Scientific Officer of Phylos Bioscience, reveals. “The cannabis world is not very comfortable with the word biotech. We’re a biotech company, that’s all it means; we study DNA, and we study how...

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