I posted a few days ago about the issue of patents on plants. Now it seems the latest victim of patents is cannabis. It also seems the problem is not uniquely European…
I posted a few days ago about the issue of patents on plants. Now it seems the latest victim of patents is cannabis. It also seems the problem is not uniquely European…
The part that is crazy about this whole genetics patent filing thing is the fact that these “inventions” pre-existed our ability to even test them genetically.
The article sort of points that out:
“But Lewis’ rabbit hole began with a tip from Portland scientist Mowgli Holmes, whose company Phylos Bioscience may also help offer the key to stopping Monsanto or shadowy companies like Biotech from controlling the cannabis future—by genetically testing weed strains to prove they’re already in use.”