What a great thread. Thanks OP for starting what got a little off track, but it’s highly entertaining.
Monsanto is an evil firm. Up there with Disney.
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@Roger A. Shrubber also has a point about the genetics corruption, but it’s not as terminal as described, I believe.
When cannabis seeds were carried around the globe during the age of mass circumnavigation in the 1700s, strains from one continent were planted on another. The resulting crop evolved to be quite different than the one originally planted, and in a relatively short time. I don’t know if that’s five years or twenty five, but cannabis adapts quickly to new environments.
So while these Congo strains became mixed with whatever Franco gave these farmers, they wil re-adapt over only several generations and become yet a new ‘landrace’.
It always pissed off somebody when I say that, but the term landrace means precisely this - a strain not native to a region, which has adapted so completely that it makes itself ideal to grow in that region’s specific climate, soil, humidity, etc.
We commonly associate ‘landrace’ with the iconic strains from yesteryear, but all it means is cannabis that has relocalized and thrives wildly without human assistance.
We can fuck cannabis genetics up, but eventually she will fix herself if we just leave her alone.