Growing Marijuana With Government Money - Published in the NY Times Is a Q&A conversation with Mahmoud A. Elsohly the research scientist who works at a cannabis laboratory in Oxford, Mississipi, which began in 1968. At this Bud Lab they investigate marijuana's chemistry, from the weed farm where they grow over 100 strains of cannabis for federally approved researchers. This high-grade pot is smoked in clinical studies.
When asked about the lab and government sponsored grow operation....
Our material is employed in clinical studies around the country, to see if the active ingredient in this plant is useful for pain, nausea, glaucoma, for AIDS patients and so on.
Though cannabis had been used by man for thousands of years, it wasn't until 1964 that the actual chemical structure of the active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol -- THC -- was determined. That stimulated new research on the plant.
Mahmoud A. Elsohly has the best job in the USA, too bad there aren't more people (thousands) working in the same field (so to speak). Although the article is short it shares some good insight into the genetics of cannabis.
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