The strain name game

[MigraineMan]

I think we have much confusion ahead to look forward to. I remembered something the other night that triggered alarm bells and just seen a YouTube video with a further yet different example.

So the first problem is the canadian market. Not all strains are licensed for the medical market and the government has caps on how much of each strain they are willing to buy to meet demand for a given period. They don't hand out contracts but send reps around the country to buy what somebody in an office somewhere decided they need.

So, you've spent 3 months growing the bomb "percy's pure green", you've dried and cured it but now the man from the government (who let's be honest possibly doesn't partake) tells you they have already bought all the quota for "percy's pure green" and everything else except for "edmund's slackbladder". Are you going to say you grew PPG and will have to hope to sell it to rec market or overseas, or clap your hands in feigned delight and say allow me to show you this harvest of the finest slackbladder?

The second as I see it with regards to names is the ever changing, newly emerging strains/brands that use the same names. Some sites like seedfinder do list the seedbank/breeder so you can know what is actually in it but places like leafly just have one lineage per strain, given there are at least 4 Obama Kush' which is the real deal?

I guess this is a third one too, some strains have multiple recognised expressions, classic example is white widow, apparently the keeper medicine wise is a Sativa type but with Indica buds, but there is also an almost all Indica type that's a keeper too. Chemdawg similarly has a few known elite clones.

To be fair the seed game has always been a bit of a mess with 3rd party seed makers, white labellers etc so not something the medical industry should have to correct, just an argument for my samplers so I don't have to buy 10g as a tester

Never got the need for the underhanded dealings in the seed game, why hide your genetics, if your selections aren't from some extremely uniform sources and you have actually done selective breeding not just taken elite clone a x elite clone b = f1 Hybrid, then it's going to be very hard to rip off your strain.

 

[BudGuy]

Not to mention that a lot of people in the MC industry/government don't sit comfortably with some of the strain names that have evolved in the recreational market (Green Crack, anyone? Some Purple Panty Dropper, perhaps?).

But hey, mr govt man, if you didn't want the black market establishing precedents in the world of cannabis, maybe you shouldn't have spent the better part of a century helping to maintain their exclusive monopoly on it.

You either die trying to bring the Green Crack man down, or you live long enough to become the Green Crack salesman yourself.

But yeah, it will be interesting to see where the industry lands with respect to strain names. Will it become over-medicalised and we're all comparing indecipherable abbreviations, or will it go full recreational to the point you simply can't control it.