Genome study article

[Ralph W. Llama]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epn...-on-global-weed-strains-heres-what-they-found

 

[f-e]

There are too many foreign language popups asking for consent, before you can view. I think we have this story though.

 

[Ralph W. Llama]

Sorry for the duplicate and tough link. Should have searched first, instead of looking here.

 

[CrustyCruz]

Cannabis is now officially Chinese in origin. Thanks Biden

 

[Capital_Florica]

I highly advise everyone ignore the press articles and read the actual research paper published.

Large-scale whole-genome resequencing unravels the domestication history of Cannabis sativa

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/29/eabg2286/tab-pdf

From the abstract:

”We show that C. sativa was first domesticated in early Neolithic times in East Asia and that all current hemp and drug cultivars diverged from an ancestral gene pool currently represented by feral plants and landraces in China.”