The Budtender’s Guide

Supplemental Materials

Part 4: Cannabis Varieties & Horticulture

Basics of Cannabis Cultivation

  1. https://newfrontierdata.com/cannabis-consumers-in-america-2022/
  2. “Plant Tissue Culture.” Plant Tissue Culture – an overview | ScienceDirect Topics. Accessed January 23, 2023. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/plant-tissue-culture.
  3. https://cleangreencertified.com/
  4. https://dragonflyearthmedicine.com/dem-pure-certificate.html
  5. https://www.demeter-usa.org/certification/
  6. https://www.cannabiscertificationcouncil.org/about-us
  7. https://sunandearth.org/
  8. https://www.certified-kind.com/about
  9. https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/ocal.html
  10. https://www.usda.gov/topics/organic
  11. https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/farming/organic-farming/organics-glance_en
  12. https://www.canada-organic.ca/en/what-we-do/organic-101/organic-certification
  13. https://www.ifoam.bio/our-work/how/standards-certification/organic-guarantee

Cannabis Varieties

  1. Sawler, Jason, Jake M. Stout, Kyle M. Gardner, Darryl Hudson, John Vidmar, Laura Butler, Jonathan E. Page, and Sean Myles. “The Genetic Structure of Marijuana and Hemp.” PLOS ONE. Public Library of Science, August 26, 2015. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0133292.
  2. McPartland, John M. “Cannabis Systematics at the Levels of Family, Genus, and Species.” Cannabis and cannabinoid research. U.S. National Library of Medicine, October 1, 2018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6225593/#__ffn_sectitle.
  3. https://newfrontierdata.com/cannabis-consumers-in-america-2022/
  4. Palus, Shannon. “The Indica vs. Sativa Distinction Isn’t Real.” Slate Magazine. Slate, April 20, 2019. https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/indica-sativa-difference-cannabis-weed-science.html.
  5. Erkelens, Jacob L, and Arno Hazekamp. “That Which We Call Indica, by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet.” Bedrocan, February 23, 2014. https://bedrocan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014-that-which-we-call-indica-by-any-other-name-hazekamp-erkelens.pdf.
  6. Schwabe, Anna L., and Mitchell E. McGlaughlin. “Genetic Tools Weed out Misconceptions of Strain Reliability in Cannabis Sativa: Implications for a Budding Industry – Journal of Cannabis Research.” BioMed Central. BioMed Central, June 7, 2019. https://jcannabisresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42238-019-0001-1.
  7. Sawler, Jason, Jake M. Stout, Kyle M. Gardner, Darryl Hudson, John Vidmar, Laura Butler, Jonathan E. Page, and Sean Myles. “The Genetic Structure of Marijuana and Hemp.” PLOS ONE. Public Library of Science, August 26, 2015. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0133292.
  8. Pearson, Jordan. “Are Weed Strains Really That Different or Mostly Bullshit?” VICE, April 20, 2017. https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbvz9m/weed-strains-are-mostly-bullshit-weedweek2017
  9. Bacca, Angela. “Who Really Owns Cannabis Genetics?” Big Buds Magazine, August 30, 2018. https://bigbudsmag.com/what-happens-if-corporations-patent-cannabis-genetics/.

How to Make Recommendations

  1. Borchardt, Debra. “Cannabis Lab Testing Is the Industry’s Dirty Little Secret.” Forbes. Forbes Magazine, April 5, 2017. https://www.forbes.com/sites/debraborchardt/2017/04/05/cannabis-lab-testing-is-the-industrys-dirty-little-secret/?sh=7f4696e11220.
  2. “What Is Dabbing?” Leafly, August 3, 2022. https://www.leafly.com/learn/consume/dabs.