As fun as it may be, recognizing cannabis varieties by names like Sour Diesel and Runtz isn’t the most scientific way to identify the effects and potential medical benefits we’re looking for in weed. The real answers lie within the genetics — and as commercial legalization spreads, companies are competing to map them out for their marketing potential.
Colorado had a head start in that race in the United States, but medical marijuana research has been federally legal in Israel for decades, and some seriously interesting stuff about the cannabis genome is being discovered there. To get up to speed, we caught up with Lior Chatow, a lead researcher at Israel-based cannabis research and development facility Eybna.
Westword: What exactly are genomes, and how do they fit in the grand scale of the way cannabis exists and evolves?
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