Day: December 9, 2019

You can’t patent information in the public domain. So Kevin McKernan is sequencing cannabis DNA and posting it, to keep the plant free. The post One man’s crusade to open-source cannabis DNA appeared first on Leafly. Read More: One man’s crusade to open-source cannabis DNAContinue Reading

Backstabbing partners, secret financial backers, hired-gun geneticists: Welcome to Leafly’s series on the new cannabis patent war. The post Leafly investigation: Inside the billion-dollar race to patent cannabis appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Leafly investigation: Inside the billion-dollar race to patent cannabisContinue Reading

More than 20 congressional lawmakers sent a bipartisan letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr, requesting that the Drug Enforcement Administration allow federally-licensed researchers to buy products from state-legal dispensaries to study the medical benefits and risks of cannabis. Marijuana research is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &Continue Reading

“From the little old lady who gave you hashish fudge” read the headline in the February 1974 issue of Vogue. The profile of the late Alice B. Toklas turned out to be more tease than delivery, since none of the recipes attached to the article actually contained weed. Still, ToklasContinue Reading

Canada’s largest cannabis company by revenue has appointed David Klein as its new CEO, effective Jan. 15, 2020. Klein currently serves as Canopy Growth’s board chair and chief financial officer (CFO) at Constellation Brands, which became the Smiths Falls, Ontario, company’s largest shareholder earlier this year. Klein will step downContinue Reading