The Future of the Cannabis Industry in a Single Image

‘Ganjapreneurs’ are in for a nasty shock if they imagine today’s strains are anywhere near the peak of what can be achieved with Cannabis.

Real crop scientists are about to get in on the action – and all that means for the current self-styled ‘Kings of Cannabis’ and their ilk. If you have ambitions in this field but you’re looking up to these chancers as heroes or guides for how to get ahead in the industry, you are going to get badly burned.

Compare wheat, where the creation of advanced semi-dwarf cultivars by Norman Borlaug doubled wheat production in India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia between 1965 and 1970, preventing massive food shortages and famines, and transforming world food security.

Seismic changes on this scale await Cannabis within the next decade.

The image is from Ernest Small’s crucial 2017 paper on advanced Cannabis cultivars, which you can download here: Dwarf germplasm: the key to giant Cannabis hempseed and cannabinoid crops.

See also his freely available work Cannabis: A Complete Guide.