Trying to corner the market on legal marijuana
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Re: Trying to corner the market on legal marijuana
#2Ah, patents again. Who wants free markets when you can have a winner-take-all system based on government-granted monopolies.
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#3What annoys me is I was trying to tell people this was were this was headed. I suspect Monsanto is the big player or affiliated with whoever it is.
The right to grow needs yo be solidified.
Re: Trying to corner the market on legal marijuana
#4What annoys me is I was trying to tell people this was were this was headed. I suspect Monsanto is the big player or affiliated with whoever it is. The right to grow needs yo be solidified.
If you'd read the article, you'd know it's not Monsanto.
Re: Trying to corner the market on legal marijuana
#5Great article.
I love good journalism like this. Well written, informative, and interesting.
Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Trying to corner the market on legal marijuana
#7Ah, patents again. Who wants free markets when you can have a winner-take-all system based on government-granted monopolies.
Ah, capitalism. Who wants the free association of individual producers as labourers when you can have wage labour and the cycle of capital crisis in a commodity economy backed up by the State acting on behalf of the property owners for the benefit of the rich to the detriment of the poor as Adam Smith noted even in the 18th century?
The free market was so called because it is free from control of its participants :)
Edit: To be clear, I'm arguing against capitalism as a manifestation of freedom, I'm sure we both agree that patents and copyrights should not exist in a free society, though.
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#8Great article. I love good journalism like this. Well written, informative, and interesting. Thanks for sharing!
I in particular enjoyed the narrative it was woven into -- following the steps of the investigation bit by bit.
Re: Trying to corner the market on legal marijuana
#9I went ahead and looked up these patents. This one looks particularly bad:
https://www.google.com/patents/US9370164
This basically grants them a patent on every single cannabis plant which has >3% THC and CBD, and which Myrcene is not the dominant terpine. Can anyone who knows their bud say which strains this could be applied to?
Also, the specification on this is HUGE. This represents a large investment; they're going to filing continuations on this until the cows come home.
EDIT: I found this website: http://analytical360.com/
This lists a number of strains that could potentially read on this, such as Gorilla Glue: http://analytical360.com/m/archived/261533
Re: Trying to corner the market on legal marijuana
#10What annoys me is I was trying to tell people this was were this was headed. I suspect Monsanto is the big player or affiliated with whoever it is. The right to grow needs yo be solidified.
If you'd read the article, you'd know it's not Monsanto.
It would not be surprising if they were counting on the possibility of selling to the giants like Monsanto. The giants don't dare get involved directly at the early stage, just too much legal and reputational danger, but they are one of the logical exits for people who can go in earlier and lock up all the IP.