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Central Lao General Population 2022
Central Lao General Population 2022 is a landrace cannabis accession from Vientiane Province, Laos, listed as Central Lao in the seed catalogue of The Real Seed Company (RSC). RSC classifies it as a Lao-Thai ganja landrace. The Real Seed Company offers the line for sale on its Kwik Seeds site (checked 17 October 2026).
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Mahmoud A. ElSohly
Mahmoud A. ElSohly is a pharmacognosist who joined the University of Mississippi in 1975 and became director of its marijuana project in 1981. In 2013 the project grew Cannabis sativa under contract to the National Institute on Drug Abuse and supplied the plant and its constituents to the institute's Drug Supply Program for research. From 1975 the contract also included a Potency Monitoring Program for illicit marijuana, and his papers from it have followed the potency of marijuana seized in the United States over several decades. read more →
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