Is There Really GMO Pot?

“The irony is that while marijuana has definitely been ‘genetically modified’ to contain higher levels of THC, that change didn’t involve the tools of modern biotechnology.   In the 1950s and 1960s many plant breeders employed ‘mutation breeding’ to increase the chances of finding DNA changes that would result in new traits.  They would also use the toxic chemical colchicine to induce the plants to double their number of chromosomes, something that sometimes leads to more vigorous growth.  The crops developed using these clumsy tools have never been regulated or safety tested like biotech crops.  They qualify for use in organic farming.  Such crops would not have to be [GMO] labeled.”

http://www.science20.com/agricultural_realism/there_really_gmo_pot-118437

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