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I was recently banned from ICmag (familiar story I know) but the reason I was banned was because I was arguing with skunkman about ownership of genetics. Apparently he is currently soliciting the growers on ICmag forums to send him any and all seed (even the dead ones) that they have so he can send it to a lab in Oregon named Phylos Biosciences to have the DNA sequenced.
http://phylosbioscience.com/about/
I was banned and all my posts deleted when I told others that in light of skunkmans past abuses with genetics ie selling his library to GW Pharmaceuticals who then sold the patent for Sativex (made from skunkman and RCC genes out of hortapharm for a rumored 7 figures). I'm actually unsure about the financial details, but hortapharm definitely sold their strains to GW who then hooked up with Bayer (a subsidiary of the Nazi war machines I.G Farben) so I am kind of pissed. I figured the best place to have this conversation was with skunkman himself but he is (a megalomaniac?) pretty unreasonable, and I say that because instead of talking about this he just brought down the banhammer on me.
The point being are we as a community (a worldwide community of cannabis lovers) going to allow two men with one company attempt to lay claim to any drug cultivar they find and then have it sequenced and lay claim to ownership? This is a truly frightening turn of events, what if in the future you are caught growing a strain that these companies have trademarked or claimed as intellectual property? Let's remember Bayer has a monster legal team, billions of dollars at their disposal, and a known track record of highly unethical (criminal) behavior. I am still stunned that people I looked up to are selling all of us down the river to big pharma, so they can sleep on silk sheets and leave a "legacy" or some stupid shit. The owners of hortapharm no longer care about the plant or the community they have decided to sleep with the enemy to further their own selfish desires.
I hope this is the right place for this thread, but this is like an elephant in the room. I cannot confirm the intentions of hortapharm or ICmag, but from past history, it will be at the expense of smaller local growers.
http://phylosbioscience.com/about/
I was banned and all my posts deleted when I told others that in light of skunkmans past abuses with genetics ie selling his library to GW Pharmaceuticals who then sold the patent for Sativex (made from skunkman and RCC genes out of hortapharm for a rumored 7 figures). I'm actually unsure about the financial details, but hortapharm definitely sold their strains to GW who then hooked up with Bayer (a subsidiary of the Nazi war machines I.G Farben) so I am kind of pissed. I figured the best place to have this conversation was with skunkman himself but he is (a megalomaniac?) pretty unreasonable, and I say that because instead of talking about this he just brought down the banhammer on me.
The point being are we as a community (a worldwide community of cannabis lovers) going to allow two men with one company attempt to lay claim to any drug cultivar they find and then have it sequenced and lay claim to ownership? This is a truly frightening turn of events, what if in the future you are caught growing a strain that these companies have trademarked or claimed as intellectual property? Let's remember Bayer has a monster legal team, billions of dollars at their disposal, and a known track record of highly unethical (criminal) behavior. I am still stunned that people I looked up to are selling all of us down the river to big pharma, so they can sleep on silk sheets and leave a "legacy" or some stupid shit. The owners of hortapharm no longer care about the plant or the community they have decided to sleep with the enemy to further their own selfish desires.
I hope this is the right place for this thread, but this is like an elephant in the room. I cannot confirm the intentions of hortapharm or ICmag, but from past history, it will be at the expense of smaller local growers.