Organizers and researchers behind an ambitious effort to record California’s unique history in the development of cannabis genetics explained details of the state-funded project last week, laying out plans to conduct wide-ranging interviews, collect plant samples and establish a marijuana herbarium in partnership with legacy cannabis communities in urban and rural areas across the state.
Leaders spoke during a webinar last Friday about the initiative, titled “Legacy Cannabis Genetics: People and Their Plants, a Community-Driven Study.”
“This team is comprised of researchers, academics, community-oriented folks [and] scientists,” said Khalil Ferguson, president and CEO of United CORE Alliance, which advocates for communities adversely affected by the drug war, “and we were awarded $2.7 million for the next two years to conduct a legacy genetics oral history and really just tell a comprehensive history of legacy genetics here in California.”
Two main questions guide the project, said Genine Coleman, executive director of Origins Council, a group that represents rural cannabis …