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WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SEED PATENTING

Up at Camp Navarro June, the canna-tech company Meadow puts on a wide-ranging event called Meadowlands, attracting all manner of legal weed insiders. This year Meadowlands was set to see a panel on heirloom seeds.

Controversy kept the discussion from happening as planned, but the patenting issues that didn’t get talked about are only growing larger as a cultural and business concern.
Leafly

  • The race to patent seeds is worth billions. Leafly’s series discusses the mysterious company with the first cannabis patent, “One man’s crusade to open-source cannabis,” and the ways bud farmers work to protect their seeds out of large farming corporations’s figurative hands.