Canada's cannabis genetic bottleneck
There are hundreds, even thousands of popular cannabis strains available on the black market. But how do these illicit, black market plants find their way into a legal, regulated market?
Up to this point, because there are so few legal sources of cannabis in the world, the government of Canada has largely relied on finding ways to transition these illegal plants into a regulated system.
So how does an illegal plant become legal? Transitioning from prohibition to regulation can be a complicated process, and this process impacts patients, licensed producers and even researchers, and several industry experts say it is is already creating a genetic bottleneck.
The government of Canada has struggled with this issue since Health Canada initially implemented the MMAR in June 2001, in response to R v Parker, and allowed home production of marijuana, but had no legal source for that marijuana.
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