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Nature's gonna nature. The fallacious line of thinking that one can fully isolate an outdoor planting is the more interesting issue this touches on, a skeptica

Nature's gonna nature. The fallacious line of thinking that one can fully isolate an outdoor planting is the more interesting issue this touches on, a skeptical take is that this fallacy continues to exist in regulation only for its utility of abuse by large companies seeking to profit from the commercialization of sterile GM crops. I'm sure the upper echelon of commercial weed growers typically have a far higher education in landscape ecology than the captured regulators.

lukan 2y ago
"The fallacious line of thinking that one can fully isolate an outdoor planting" Who thinks that? It is about reducing unwanted pollination. So if you know the wind will come strong from this area and lots of hemp field are there, you can maybe protect your plants some time of the year, or know beforehand, that an area is not a good spot for you.
- indrora 2y ago
  Monsanto, at one level or another. While they pinky-promise to not sue, if their corn gets into your corn and you replant the seeds, they've fought about it in court to mixed results.
  - colechristensen 2y ago
    Almost nobody replants their own corn. Almost all corn planted is an F1 hybrid, the first generation of a cross between two varieties. Subsequent generations perform very much worse. This is a natural thing not an engineered thing, many plants on the first generation cross between two varieties perform much better. Most corn is also patent encumbered, but that is less of the reason. Soybeans are actually different and before all of the patented genetics people did sometimes replant their own grown seed.
  - to11mtm 2y ago
    I thought Canola (which is a disturbing plant in general for food use) was their big hitter for that sort of thing?
  - cyberax 2y ago
    > While they pinky-promise to not sue They will not only "not sue", but they will compensate you for the cost of the contamination. The only court cases where Monsanto (now Bayer) got damages involved farmers knowingly and intentionally replanting Monsanto's seeds.
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beardedwizard 2y ago
But the cannabis industry is mostly large companies capturing regulators and litigating genetics, so I'm not sure the distinction is accurate.
- PaulHoule 2y ago
  In New York the cannabis industry is still largely grey market. I have been trying to quit, we finally cut up the plants that we had from last year and put them in jars and sent them away but then somebody shows up with a jar of something they grew. I don't think I'll ever buy weed from a dispensary because between being able to grow a few plants for myself and getting weed from friends who also grew it for themselves as well as knowing people in the industry (leaders in the trade association) it keeps showing up.
- bregma 2y ago
  Why do my cannabis-sector ETFs keep going down then?

lukan 2y ago

"The fallacious line of thinking that one can fully isolate an outdoor planting" Who thinks that? It is about reducing unwanted pollination. So if you know the wind will come strong from this area and lots of hemp field are there, you can maybe protect your plants some time of the year, or know beforehand, that an area is not a good spot for you.

indrora 2y ago
Monsanto, at one level or another. While they pinky-promise to not sue, if their corn gets into your corn and you replant the seeds, they've fought about it in court to mixed results.
- colechristensen 2y ago
  Almost nobody replants their own corn. Almost all corn planted is an F1 hybrid, the first generation of a cross between two varieties. Subsequent generations perform very much worse. This is a natural thing not an engineered thing, many plants on the first generation cross between two varieties perform much better. Most corn is also patent encumbered, but that is less of the reason. Soybeans are actually different and before all of the patented genetics people did sometimes replant their own grown seed.
- to11mtm 2y ago
  I thought Canola (which is a disturbing plant in general for food use) was their big hitter for that sort of thing?
- cyberax 2y ago
  > While they pinky-promise to not sue They will not only "not sue", but they will compensate you for the cost of the contamination. The only court cases where Monsanto (now Bayer) got damages involved farmers knowingly and intentionally replanting Monsanto's seeds.

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beardedwizard 2y ago

But the cannabis industry is mostly large companies capturing regulators and litigating genetics, so I'm not sure the distinction is accurate.

PaulHoule 2y ago
In New York the cannabis industry is still largely grey market. I have been trying to quit, we finally cut up the plants that we had from last year and put them in jars and sent them away but then somebody shows up with a jar of something they grew. I don't think I'll ever buy weed from a dispensary because between being able to grow a few plants for myself and getting weed from friends who also grew it for themselves as well as knowing people in the industry (leaders in the trade association) it keeps showing up.
bregma 2y ago
Why do my cannabis-sector ETFs keep going down then?