Wed.Jul 11, 2018

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OregonCBD Uses Intelligent Breeding and DNA-Based Tools to Disrupt Hemp Extract Market

Medicinal Genomics

In a recent episode of the Shaping Fire podcast , host Shango Los sat down with Seth Crawford, Ph.D. to discuss his blooming seed business, Oregon CBD. The published sociologist-turned cannabis breeder entered the industrial hemp market in 2015, partnering with his brother Eric. Their goal was to disrupt the hemp extract market by breeding CBD-rich plants derived from medicinal cannabis plants that would replace the low-cannabinoid, low-terpene producing fibrous hemp plants that were being used