So GMO cannabis does exist just not in a plant form......YET!

Source:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cannabis-genetic-biotech-patents-gmo-1.4854746

Posted: Oct 13, 2018

Investors rush to patent genetically modified cannabis molecules

Critics worry private companies will own genetic building blocks of life.

OrganiGram Inc. in Moncton, N.B. has closed a $10 million investment deal with Hyasynth Biologicals, boosting access to biotechnology that can produce cannabis's active ingredients in a lab without needing a costly grow-op.

At the Hyasynth Biologicals laboratory in Montreal, scientists are working on the latest frontier in the cannabis business: genetically engineering the active ingredients in marijuana and then patenting them.

Hyasynth is part of a new wave of genetic engineering firms across Canada and the U.S., splicing and dicing molecules found in cannabis plants, hoping to create new recreational products and medicines to treat pain, cancers, insomnia, epilepsy and a host of other health problems.

Cannabis producers, biotech firms and drug companies, along with the law firms who represent them, say genetic engineering — a controversial technique pioneered in agriculture — will allow companies to patent genes synthesized from cannabis.

"Companies are using genetic sequences taken from natural cannabis strains, altering them and building a product that will eventually disrupt natural markets in cannabis," said Jim Thomas, a spokesperson for Val-David, Que.-based technology watchdog the ETC Group.

It's only a matter of time but we should always be able to grow our own from seed, hopefully.

they can patent all of the synthetic bullshit they want, i'm not going to buy it. they tried for 70 years to snuff out the real thing, did not work. don't like their shit? don't buy it.

In my weaker moments I have suspected that there likely are interests who have been and are playing with such things behind closed doors. Imagine they don't give a damn about our segment of the market, but would be looking to future potential with big pharma etc. Like to envision them having as much success as a dog chasing it's tail.

CosmicGiggle said:

It's only a matter of time but we should always be able to grow our own from seed, hopefully.

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Start saving/preserving them beans (ours)

CosmicGiggle said:

It's only a matter of time but we should always be able to grow our own from seed, hopefully.

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A quick look at history, they certainly can't stop us from growing our own from seed.

Response from Steve Savage, Consultant, Savage & Associates · Thursday, 8/22/2013 12:50 pm

Cannabis has definitely been genetically modified for the underground and “medical” markets, but not using the modern methods that get called “GMO”. The modification of the genetics of marijuana achieved using a combination of traditional breeding techniques and clumsy, “old-school” techniques like chemical mutagenesis and induced polyploidy. In other words, various enterprising people used toxic chemicals to cause mutations or used Colchicine to induce the plants to double the number of chromosomes in every cell. Some of these plants grew better and/or made more THC. That is why modern marijuana is so much more potent.

Am never found data polyploids are stronger or better plants than normal gear we
growing.. also when you work with colchicine then you cant smoke even progeny
but it needs a few generation to clean plants from poisson and then you can use
them..

Colhicine is mutagen,its not GMO tech as in GMO you look to exchange,add or take
some part of DNA,you can add genes from other plants or animals..
while colchicine acts simmilar as radiation mutation..

most of a time you will have unwanted mutations,cant be controled like real GMO
techniques,but its more random results..

shaggyballs said:

Response from Steve Savage, Consultant, Savage & Associates · Thursday, 8/22/2013 12:50 pm

Cannabis has definitely been genetically modified for the underground and “medical” markets, but not using the modern methods that get called “GMO”. The modification of the genetics of marijuana achieved using a combination of traditional breeding techniques and clumsy, “old-school” techniques like chemical mutagenesis and induced polyploidy. In other words, various enterprising people used toxic chemicals to cause mutations or used Colchicine to induce the plants to double the number of chromosomes in every cell. Some of these plants grew better and/or made more THC. That is why modern marijuana is so much more potent.

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G `day Shaggy

The sky is falling !

Colchicine - polyploids and potency are myths .

Been 30 + years I have known about colchicine . Still waiting for the super potent polyploid .

Thanks for sharin

EB .

Elmer Bud said:

G `day Shaggy

The sky is falling !

Colchicine - polyploids and potency are myths .

Been 30 + years I have known about colchicine . Still waiting for the super potent polyploid .

Thanks for sharin

EB .

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Has anybody ever found a SUPER POTENT Blueberry?
Colchacine didn't do it for DJ Short 30 years ago, why would it work that way now?