Genetic tools weed out misconceptions of strain reliability in Cannabis sativa: implications for a budding industry.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Unlike other plants, Cannabis sativa is excluded from regulation by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Distinctive Cannabis varieties are ostracized from registration and therefore nearly impossible to verify. As Cannabis has become legal for medical and recreational consumption in many states, consumers have been exposed to a wave of novel Cannabis products with many distinctive names. Despite more than 2000 named strains being available to consumers, questions about the consistency of commercially available strains have not been investigated through scientific methodologies. As Cannabis legalization and consumption increases, the need to provide consumers with consistent products becomes more pressing. In this research, we examined commercially availab

SUBMITTER: Schwabe AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7815053 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature