Canabiologist, you really don't know what you are talking about with all that intemperate ranting.
In order to patent a plant some unique quality must be added by a human. Natural plants are not patentable. Mostly due to its illegal status nationally and internationally ALL Cannabis plants are not patentable. The door is only barely beginning to open for legally protected varieties. All of our seeds and clones, including those still on vendors shelves are not patentable. Somebody in a legal environment must add something "novel" for a new variety to obtain legal protection.
Some of that will no doubt happen once legalization becomes the norm but there won't be much money in it in my opinion. Cannabis is a tremendously genetically diverse species like apples. But with Cannabis that diversity still manages to produce useful products unlike the disappointing results produced by most apple trees grown from seed.
You don't seem to understand patenting at all. Everything is natural. Plants you created and maintain are your invention. You need to read the law
This is why I have posted the links so you and others can read over and digest them.. You don't really have any idea what you are talking about.. There are ALREADY patented cannabis clones.. The USA patent office doesn't really care about federal illegal status.. I don't know you need to keep up with reality
I have covered already what is and is not patentable.. Including telling you already that products you have brought to market or on the market, seeds, clones, and other products, yes are not patentable... But products that haven't been on the market are.. I don't know what is so hard to grasp this isn't rocket science...
I'm also not a patent lawyer, and again I've said as much.
People should read the applicable laws... WHICH... they haven't and refuse to do apparently lol.
Anything you have not brought to a market you can patent. ALL individuals ARE novel (the patent office may not realize this or.. Want to realize this..).. It is up to you to prove novelty, which only takes some time and leg work.
If you think producers will not want tried and true tested products that consumers also want.... I can't keep repeating myself on this...