Cannabis strains copyright registration

The concept of quality control and standards is still new in the  expanding world of legalized medical and recreational cannabis,

Strains ( OG, Purple Kush, Sour Diesel ) of weed in one state may sound familiar when you go to purchase them in another, but who knows if they actually are the same strain?

A company called Medical Genomics is attempting to deal with this issue by creating a repository of cannabis genomes and storing them on the Bitcoin blockchain, 

Medical Genomics is doing this in the hope of standardizing strain terminology so that customers always know what they’re getting. It also serves to defend the intellectual property rights of strains breeders .It’s basically a type of cannabis copyrighting.

There is hundreds and hundreds of cannabis strains in the world and that growers are creating more. What sets each of these strains apart cannot be determined with a quick sniff or puff-puff.

Back in the day, the name didn’t matter, as long as it was good stuff. But now that cannabis is becoming a regulated industry, the name of the strain matters.

As Motherboard points out, while we may be turning into pot snobs, it is important to ensure that a strain has consistent qualities if we intend to use it effectively as a medicine.

Large growers, says Motherboard, are already thinking about securing intellectual property rights for their strains. The first patent for weed, Sweet and Sour Widow, was filed with the U.S. Patent Office in 2015 by the Biotech Institute of California.

Medicinal Genomics saw this as an opportunity to create a technique to allow customers to register their strains on the Bitcoin blockchain and hopefully avoid any legal battles over strain name and ownership.

As to be expected, Medicinal Genomics has sparked a race among growers to get their strains analyzed and registered..