Cal Poly Humboldt is part of a new study that will research cannabis across California. The interdisciplinary study aims to preserve oral histories and the legacy genetics of cannabis farmers
One of the principal investigators is Dominic Corva, a cannabis studies program director at Cal Poly Humboldt. The study will start this year, coinciding with the launch of the university’s cannabis studies program.
Corva said the most central, important part of the study is the community-based, participatory research. Legacy cultivation communities will decide where herbariums —traditional plant libraries that store genetics and seeds — will be built, and communities will take part in how they will preserve their genetics.
“There’s a desperate need,” he said, when asked about the urgency of preservation of the information. “There are lines that have been around for a long time, and the people cultivating them need to stay in business,” he said. The study will also establish collective intellectual property protection for their genetics, through the herbariums. There will be genetic mapping that goes along with the study to identify characteristics of different plant lines.
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