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What Are Heirloom Cannabis Strains?

Marijuana Seeds NL

What’s the Difference Between Heirloom and Landrace Strains? So what makes heirloom strains so special and how are they different from other kinds of cannabis found around the world? You may have read on this site about landrace strains and why they are so coveted. Origins of modern strain hybridization.

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What’s the Difference Between Hemp and Marijuana CBD Oil?

CannaMD

As Leafly summarizes: Cannabis refers to a genus of plants which has three species: indica, sativa, and ruderalis. Hemp is a sativa species, while cannabis can be sativa, indica, or ruderalis. The United States government set the definition of hemp as a a Cannabis sativa L. Even the federal government gets mixed up!

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The Hemp Standard is 0.3% THC. That Should Be Changed.

Canna Law Blog

To briefly summarize, the 2018 Farm Bill defined hemp as “[t]he plant species Cannabis sativa L. First by the European Union, whose Common Agricultural Policy caps THC concentrations at 0.2 THC as the “arbitrary threshold at which cannabinoid content is used to distinguish strains of hemp from marijuana.”. Yet relied on it was.

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Jamaica’s Ganja Shortage: ‘Cultural Embarrassment’ or Clickbait?

The Cannigma

Omari Jackson, publisher of Ganja Activist, a Jamaica-based outlet covering all things cannabis on the island, told The Cannigma that reports of a cannabis shortage caused by torrential rains and a drought are “clickbait,” adding that while cannabis growers did take a hit in the rain — so did the entire agricultural sector.

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CAN YOU OWN A HEMP STRAIN? THE STICKY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NAMES AND TRADEMARKS.

Cannabis Law Report

This post concerns the first problem with respect to hemp strains (or, more formally, varietals and cultivars ). Even so, hemp companies that believe they “own” a particular hemp strain and rush to file for a trademark registration may come away disappointed. ESTABLISH A TRADEMARK SEPARATE FROM THE CULTIVAR (OR STRAIN) NAME.

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Technologies for Enhancing Cannabis Bioavailability and Their Legal Methods of Protection

The Blunt Truth

The most common way people consume cannabis is by smoking the buds of the cannabis sativa plant, often referred to as “flower.” The individual strain of flower can be protected as a plant patent, but this form of protection is rarely used and can be viewed as weak. How can flower be protected as IP?

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The Endocannabinoid System-History, Health and Why We Feel High

Puff Puff Post

The spread of the cannabis plant first started in China, where hemp – one of the varieties of the cannabis plant – was grown as an agricultural crop because of its high protein, seeds, oil, and fiber properties. The cannabis plant consists of two basic species, Cannabis Sativa and Cannabis Indica. Cannabis Sativa.

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