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Happy 4/20! Want to blow your own mind? Oh good, I was hoping that’s what you would say…

A while back, I wrote about Mowgli Holmes and his company, Phylos Bioscience. Using words, mostly his, I did my best to describe his super amazing upcoming project. I said we would follow up when his project went live.

Last night at midnight, it did just that.

You don’t need to get high to enjoy this, but as with many things, it certainly won’t hurt. Hey, it’s a holiday.

What Mowgli and his team have done is map the cannabis genome and made a 3D representation of various strains and their relation to one another. I don’t think I can explain it any better than that, but their tour explains it with greater accuracy than I ever could, and it’s a highly visual experience, to say the very least.

We are lucky to be living in such times, and extra lucky that the brains at Phylos Biosceinece have chosen to call Portland home. Check out Phylos Bioscience’s work here.

Joshua Jardine Taylor is the Mercury's Senior Cannabis columnist and correspondent, and has written "Cannabuzz" since 2015.

One reply on “The Ultimate 4/20 Experience: Mapping the Pot Genome”

  1. I still prefer landrace strains. It’s nice to be able to enjoy smoking three quarters of a good tasting joint of creeper.

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