05/08/2025
Coming so to Sonoma County May 16 & 17th;
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Greetings!
Sonoma County Cannabis Alliance is pleased to be supporting an upcoming 2-day community event next Friday & Saturday at the Hessel Farmers Grange in Sebastopol with the research team from the pioneering California cannabis study entitled "Legacy Cannabis Genetics: People and Their Plants, A Community-Driven Study".
Co-hosted by the CalPoly Humboldt Cannabis Studies Program, LeafWorks, the Oral History Center at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Origins Council and United CORE Alliance, this event will bring together experts, stakeholders, and academics for an afternoon of insightful presentations and discussions about the project’s goals and methodologies.
Free and open to the public, event programming will feature a panel discussion with the project's research team, followed by Q&A with attendees. After the panel discussion, researchers and project personnel will facilitate hand-on demonstrations on herbarium science and breakout discussions covering different aspects of this multidisciplinary Community-Based Participatory Research project. Topics include:
Community-Based Participatory Research
Oral Histories of California Cannabis
Herbarium Science & Genetics Studies
Marginalized Communities & Research Participation Safeguards
Public Policy & Intellectual Property Protections for Genetic Resources
Ethnographic Study of the Political Geography of California Cannabis
Pre-registration is not required, but encouraged. To learn more about the event and register click here. The event will be held at the Hessel Farmers Grange at 5400 Blank Rd Sebastopol CA, on Friday May 16th, from 1-5pm and again on Saturday May 17th from 1-5pm. Programming will be similar both days. Community members are welcome to drop in at any point during the events.
About Legacy Cannabis Genetics
Funded by a $2.7 million dollar grant from the California Department of Cannabis Control, the project incorporates public education and Community-Based Participatory Research to implement the standard methods and systems used across agriculture to define, document, and legally protect as intellectual property the individual and collective genetic resources of legacy cannabis breeders and legacy cannabis cultivation communities.
To learn more about the study visit: www.legacygenetics.org
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