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Anna Schwabe

Anna Schwabe

Cannabis geneticist and Associate Lecture Professor at University of Colorado specializing in cannabis genetics, plant chemistry, and cultivar variation.

Jun 13, 2026

26:10
Hmm.
26:10
But this stems from multiple different things.
26:14
So number one, we don't have a database of genetics to say, you know, "This is Blue Dream," and that comes from not being able to register plants or, you know, new cultivars like we do in literally every other crop.
26:28
So if I'm a hop grower, I spend 12 years developing a brand new hop, which is, you know, you cross things, you pheno hunt, you back cross, you stabilize the genetics so that you get that distinct uniform, stable genetic.
26:42
And then you go to the Plant Variety Protection office, and you say, "I've bred this brand new hop.
26:46
Here's all of the data that I have.
26:48
Here's the profile.

56 MINS LATER

82:24
So true.

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