MUTANT CANNABIS WHAT IS IT, AND HOW DO I GET SOME?
“WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT IT’S A NATURALLY OCCURRING MUTATION. IT’S NOT LIKE WE’RE SPLICING CANNABIS GENES, OR SOMEHOW CROSS-BREEDING SPECIES. WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT IT’S SOMETHING THAT’S NOT EASILY TRANSPOSED ONTO THE CANNABIS GENOME. IT HAS TO BE INTENTIONALLY BRED TO KEEP THAT TRAIT.”
—NAT PENNINGTON
TO TRULY UNDERSTAND CANNABIS, you have to break it down all the way to its DNA. Cannabis is classified as a diploid species, meaning that the plant receives half of its genetic information from the “father” plant and the other half from the “mother” plant. Diploid plants have two copies of each chromosome instead of one copy of each chromosome, as in haploid plants.
Just like human beings, in rare instances cannabis plants can receive too many or too few DNA strands, which causes them to mutate in early
