San
07-20-2008, 08:56 AM
Source = wwwDOTabcDOTnetDOTau/news/stories/2008/07/18/2308193.htm
Researchers in Canberra have helped develop a DNA database for cannabis to help police investigators better track the illegal drug.
The Australian National University and Canberra's TAFE worked with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on the project.
The AFP's Forensic and Data Centre manager, James Robertson, says it has taken more than a decade to develop the technology, which will help detect bigger drug busts.
"An investigator might have a number of cannabis seizures, but no way to show whether they're related or not and through this technique you'll be able to compare them and look to see if they've had a common source," he said.
"If there's other investigative information then that might show that there's been a conspiracy to grow say a commercial quantity."
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Personally I think it's a shame this technology isn't being used to identify specific medical strains, and help breeders achieve results much quicker than would be the case by experienced selective breeding selection alone.
All they can prove with this, is that some confiscated/police sample or other came from the same (or not) original plant. They can try to say it proves conspiracy to grow commercial quantities, but in reality clones are available on many world streets, people on the other side of any country could be growing from the same clone only strain, taking as many cuttings as they require and passing those cuttings around too, it wouldn't provide any proof of conspiracy, only proof two people (or more) bought clones at the same source.
You mite be on a sticky wicket if you're knocking out clones and they catch you tho :lol:
San:smokin:
Researchers in Canberra have helped develop a DNA database for cannabis to help police investigators better track the illegal drug.
The Australian National University and Canberra's TAFE worked with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on the project.
The AFP's Forensic and Data Centre manager, James Robertson, says it has taken more than a decade to develop the technology, which will help detect bigger drug busts.
"An investigator might have a number of cannabis seizures, but no way to show whether they're related or not and through this technique you'll be able to compare them and look to see if they've had a common source," he said.
"If there's other investigative information then that might show that there's been a conspiracy to grow say a commercial quantity."
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Personally I think it's a shame this technology isn't being used to identify specific medical strains, and help breeders achieve results much quicker than would be the case by experienced selective breeding selection alone.
All they can prove with this, is that some confiscated/police sample or other came from the same (or not) original plant. They can try to say it proves conspiracy to grow commercial quantities, but in reality clones are available on many world streets, people on the other side of any country could be growing from the same clone only strain, taking as many cuttings as they require and passing those cuttings around too, it wouldn't provide any proof of conspiracy, only proof two people (or more) bought clones at the same source.
You mite be on a sticky wicket if you're knocking out clones and they catch you tho :lol:
San:smokin: