From today's Associated Press, a story about the D.E.A. denying Professor Craker (University of Massachusetts) a marijuana growing license, specifically stating that the current monopoly on government-approved production of marijuana by the University of Mississippi was acceptable because the university lab provided an ample supply of sufficient potent marijuana.
Professor Craker had argued in a suit that the marijuana provided was not of sufficient potency for the studies he needed to conduct. An administrative law judge agreed with him, but the D.E.A. doesn't really care what judges think if they're not handing out large sentences to criminal defendants (by contrast, I've never heard of the D.E.A. ever challenging a drug-law sentence for being too stiff).
Mississippi and Massachusetts. Whether D.E.A. or Professor Craker, when it comes to high-potency marijuana, they both must be smoking truckloads of the government-sanctioned marijuana. Neither state is known for the quality of its marijuana. Neither state has ever had a single strain of its marijuana win a Cannabis Cup.
There's one state that has time and time again taken the Cannabis Cup. There is a state that is known for providing high-potency marijuana. The state that is known for this: California (though Kentucky is becoming a close second). There's one county in this state that is known throughout the entire world for the quality of marijuana grown there: Humboldt. You want to study high-potency marijuana? Try some Humboldt County marijuana. Everyone else in the U.S. (no offense to Kentucky, they're getting close) are just pretenders.
Which is to say, of course, that perhaps Dr. Craker would be better off if his proposed facility to produce high-potency marijuana was based in Humboldt County, California.
Posted by Malakkar Vohryzek