On Feb. 1, the legendary cannabis breeder Dave Bowman, better known as Subcool, died after a long fight with the rare condition Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, as well as COPD.<\/p>\n
As the news spread and sent shockwaves throughout the cannabis community, post after post from the world\u2019s leading cannabis figures on social media memorialized Subcool. A recurring theme: Many now-successful members of the cannabis community said they had been inspired to get started by Subcool\u2019s activism in the 2000s, when publicly identifying yourself as a cannabis genetics enthusiast was an act of civil disobedience in itself.<\/p>\n
Subcool first made his name leading The Green Avengers, which bred strains like\u00a0Jack the Ripper, Jack\u2019s Cleaner 2 and Vortex<\/a>, which were able to\u00a0stand out at the height of OG\u2019s reign at the top. These strains found their way to the podium at the first official Cannabis Cup in the United States, where the Vortex (labeled as something else<\/a>)\u00a0took top sativa honors<\/a>\u00a0in the 2010 High Times San Francisco Medical Cannabis Cup. The TGA catalog <\/a>went on to collect various other accolades over the years.<\/p>\n Three years ago,\u00a0I got to chat with Subcool<\/a>\u00a0about his earliest days participating in the cannabis community, back in the early 1990s. At the time, Subcool was hanging out on some of the earliest pot-growing internet forums, where he connected with fellow old school breeder Skoosk, who gave 200 seeds to Subcool. Skoosh had wild genetics that included Lamb\u2019s Bread, Purple Haze, Northern Lights and a Pluton bred\u00a0by the legendary Nevil Schoenmakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Subcool worked those seeds for a year before finding the original Jack\u2019s Cleaner. In 1997, he and The 77, a group of underground growers, met and showed their wares to each other. Subcool\u2019s offerings were among the top of the pack. Twenty years later, that same excitement carried Subcool on to the stage at the Southern California High Times Cannabis Cup\u00a0where he received<\/a>\u00a0the 2017 Lester Grinspoon Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n Not long after receiving that award, Subcool lost his home and everything in it during the wildfires that\u00a0devastated the Northern California<\/a>\u00a0community in the fall of 2017. The incident showed his resolve to continue to help the community, as he teamed up with The Soil King Garden Center owner Patrick King to\u00a0help his fellow farmers<\/a>\u00a0that still had a chance at beating back the flames and saving their crops.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we do with the money is give it to Patrick, the Soil King, and he\u2019s on the ground,\u201d Subcool told Cannabis Now in 2017. \u201cWhat this allows us to do \u2014 instead of bothering with forms, the Red Cross and bureaucracy \u2014 is if you need a generator, you drive to the Soil King and say \u2018Pat, I need a generator.\u2019 Then you can go to Home Depot and you buy it.\u201d<\/p>\n At the same time as he launched this fundraising effort, Subcool was driving to The Soil King to get a blood infusion as the fires raged around him.<\/p>\n \u201cSo he\u2019s providing me a bed and a place to get my medication because everything is burnt down,\u201d Subcool said in 2017, \u201cand then we\u2019re going to continue on raising money for food, supplies and water to get to the growers.\u201d<\/p>\n King spoke with Cannabis Now this week about Subcool\u2019s efforts to help the community during the fire disaster that killed 40 people.<\/p>\n \u201cI can tell you this about this man: After the fires, everybody was donating money, seeds, items and he took none of it!\u201d said King. \u201cHe gave it all the way, raised money for other fire victims in need. Sub was not a selfish man, he was cut from a cloth not many have ever seen. He cared about everybody else and put them in front of him caring about himself every time. He was a one-off, last of a dime breed. My best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnny Green was one of the original cannabis bloggers who started writing during the explosion of cannabis reform in the 2000s. He told Cannabis Now about the first time he met Subcool.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first time that our paths crossed was in the early 2000s. We both lived in the same part of Oregon at the time, had mutual friends, and he was infamous in cannabis community circles, like a mysterious cannabis folk hero,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n After a mutual friend hyped Subcool for a long time, Green agreed to pitch in on a bag of flower but remained skeptical that it would live up to the hype.<\/p>\n \u201cWithin seconds of Subcool entering the living room, it smelled so skunky that I knew he was the real deal,\u201d Green said. \u201cThe aroma that filled the room was like nothing I had ever smelled before.\u201d<\/p>\n Like many, Green had dozens of online conversations with Subcool, such as one conversation he remembers about using a pen name out of necessity due to cannabis prohibition.<\/p>\n \u201cSub contributed a ton of knowledge to the cannabis world, and he will be greatly missed. Some of his strains are my all-time favorites,\u201d Green said. \u201cSub may be gone, but his legacy will live on forever.\u201d<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, how will you remember Subcool?<\/p>\n The post Cannabis Community Mourns the Loss of Longtime Breeder Subcool<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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