Who…OK…World Herb Organization. Checks out.
All the proof I need. You accept Diner’s Club?
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All Your Cannabis Are Belong to Us
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We own your bases
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us
sadly I remember the game 
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Agreed, you can still show respect to someone else’s work/time put into something, but you’re free to do with it as you wish, I certainly wouldn’t be upset at someone using something I made for their own projects.
If someone has a strain/cut that they don’t want given out/sold and you steal it and leak it, that’s a bit different.
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Most people overthink it in my opinion. The genetics we have was established with hippie free trade of seeds thats how we got heirlooms and the first polyhybrids. We can give a nod to those who worked the genetics to whatever point but i feel like mix the the best of what your looking for and show us something new. Just dont take someones f1s and make some f2s and call it your own… That be major fuckery 
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Even taking F1 to F2 isn’t as big of a deal as people make it out to be, for example some close to extinct strain someone revives with an F2… people would be happy to buy those beans. but yeah it’s not like you can claim you originally created it or something like that.
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I pay breeders to continue doing work that I want to support. But what I buy with my moolah is mine. I’m not gonna self-oppress just because someone said so.
Free yourself and live by your own principles, and not someone else’s.
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So i think the “respect the breeder” thing went out the windows in the 90s. Before then there was real work in breeding cannabis. Taking low potency strains and selecting from hundreds to find the sports and crossing those and such. Once the Seedbank boom of the 80s-early 90s its went from real breeding to just crossing the seedbank stock over and over and claiming it as something new.
So as far as I’m concerned once the packs are bought and paid for they are yours to do as you please. How many current “breeders” just bought crossed and renamed strains? Why do the deserve respect when they dont give it to others.
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I’ve been bouncing this around for a while. As I do not want to disrespect the hardworking breeders out there. I think though, being a rec n’ hobby farmer, any genetics I buy are mine to do with what I want, grow, cross, share, and all in between. Except, rename and resell as if I was some great breeder.
I suppose, if a few of my beans came out good, I could share them with someone 
…and a big thank you to those who have shared with me.
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In Canada you can apply for breeders rights but there are specifics that need to be met like 1)be a new strain,2) all phenos be a ceetain percentage the same, among others
https://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/pbrpov/cropreport/marie.shtml
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Also, companies will have genetic markers in their seeds and subsequent bred seeds so they can 100% nail you for selling their seeds or any offspring.
They do it with soybeans and other crops already.
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If I pay for seeds and grow a plant from them what I do with them is up to me. Got no problem giving credit where it’s due though.
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That’s why I’d much prefer decriminalization to legalization. Once big agri-business gets involved they’ll make getting genetics incredibly difficult to push working class growers and dealers out of the market.
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I see where you’re coming from but just like with any crop, the heirlooms never went away. There are sites with hundreds and hundreds of varieties of tomato. Same for every crop/plant you can imagine.
Specialty and heirloom varieties are more available than ever.
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Making more for yourself and friends is cool but if you try and sell them that’s another story. I can see breeders getting pissed off about that but not seeds to be given away
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I don’t see that happening, simply because of people like us that have plenty of beans and make more and share them with others freely. It is us that could put them out of business of we really tried
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Ummm possibly, be a tough row to hoe.
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Look even the title says i own cannabis, start sending me those checks
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