DNA Genetics Pure Afghan

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I'm quite surprised that nobody has sequenced the Cannabis plant and produced a genetically modified strain yet. They have done this with just about every major crop and with livestock. For instance, wild salmon has a gene that limits their growth to a certain season. Scientists have created a strain of salmon with this gene that grows 3 times as fast. How is it they do this with salmon but not with weed?

Really, nobody produces food using selective breeding anymore - it's all done through modification of DNA. Looks like these "breeders" are still living in the dark ages.

RickWhite said:

I'm quite surprised that nobody has sequenced the Cannabis plant and produced a genetically modified strain yet. They have done this with just about every major crop and with livestock. For instance, wild salmon has a gene that limits their growth to a certain season. Scientists have created a strain of salmon with this gene that grows 3 times as fast. How is it they do this with salmon but not with weed?

Really, nobody produces food using selective breeding anymore - it's all done through modification of DNA. Looks like these "breeders" are still living in the dark ages.

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Who has the resources for this? It's not like there is federal funding for weed modification via genetics. I don't think the dutch government wouldn't fund that sort of thing either.

RickWhite said:

I'm quite surprised that nobody has sequenced the Cannabis plant and produced a genetically modified strain yet. They have done this with just about every major crop and with livestock. For instance, wild salmon has a gene that limits their growth to a certain season. Scientists have created a strain of salmon with this gene that grows 3 times as fast. How is it they do this with salmon but not with weed?

Really, nobody produces food using selective breeding anymore - it's all done through modification of DNA. Looks like these "breeders" are still living in the dark ages.

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Scientists are working on it as we speak, they've been at it for decades dude. They have produced hybrids by breeding C ruderalis into the mix. C ruderalis is a small, low in THC strain, which flowers after about 8 weeks and is not dependant on a change of season for this. When bread with just the right ratio of C indica &
C sativa, a small auto flowering medium level THC hybrid strain is produced.
At present, botanists the world over are breeding more THC into this but it takes a while, generation by generation they are engineering better weed for the world of tomorrow... Everyone's invited to participate, it's not expensive or particularly difficult research.
Cheers.

RickWhite said:

Looks like these "breeders" are still living in the dark ages.

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For one, the fact that they are "breeders" as you say yourself, implies that they BREED instead of MODIFY. You speak condescendingly as if you have an idea as to what you are talking about. The consequences of consuming genetically modified organisms of any kind are just barely starting to manifest themselves. This is not necessarily an advantageous route for medical marijuana producers. For one, because many consumers of marijuana have moral qualms with the practice that you are suggesting. In fact, I can point you to some very negative consequences of genetic modification. For instance, the fact that this allows corporations to PATENT a genetic structure, giving them the LEGAL RIGHTS TO THE FOOD WE EAT. This can be seen with the very examples you gave, and it one of the most stupid and dangerous moves ever made by the human race. Even assuming there were no negative effects, before we decide what things we need to do with the specificity of gene manipulation, we have to figure out the neural paths of all of the cannabinoids (that's a lot), and their specific medical potential. There is much work to do in this field of study, and it's more important.

You make your proposed task sound so easy. Do you have the necessary education to do so? If you do then why don't you find a grant, and do it? Otherwise please save the pretentiousness for another forum.

That afghan looks pretty leafy musta been a bitch to trim.