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Record W2803509808 · doi:10.1055/s-0038-1644911

The Role of Agriculture in Supplying Nutritional, Medicinal, and Recreational Cannabis Products

2018· article· en· W2803509808 on OpenAlex
Ernest Small

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenuePlanta Medica International Open · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicFood Security and Health in Diverse Populations
Canadian institutionsAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAgricultureGermplasmBusinessCannabisBiotechnologyNutraceuticalCommercializationLimitingNatural resource economicsEngineeringBiologyMedicineEconomicsAgronomyMarketing

Abstract

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In past centuries, the cannabis plant was one of the world's most admired crops, furnishing a range of indispensable goods. For most of the last century, however, fear of its abuse potential suppressed almost all legal cultivation. Recently, the constraints limiting cannabis commercialization have been loosened, a tidal wave of research and development has been unleashed, and cannabis is becoming a trillion dollar industry. In the last two decades, Canada has become the world leader in production of hempseed food preparations and nutritional oilseed extracts based on non-euphoric (“industrial”) varieties, and there is enormous potential to breed improved cultivars that can be employed to produce a range of functional foods and nutraceuticals. Euphoric strains currently cultivated for marijuana are far less well developed than industrial varieties, and require modern breeding for efficient harvest of the cannabinoids. The best known cannabinoid is the euphoric THC, but the non-euphoric cannabinoids, particularly CBD, have considerable medicinal potential, and their agricultural production also requires development. Marijuana production in Canada is currently based on indoor cultivation, which provides security but is very expensive and wasteful of energy. The most pressing short-term need is breeding of improved varieties, particularly short-stature (so-called “dwarf”) cultivars, in the manner that most other crops have been altered in recent decades, to greatly increase efficient production. The most pressing long-term need is assembly of a public permanent germplasm (seed) collection which will preserve vanishing genetic resources of cannabis plants and provide the essential basis for breeding both industrial and medicinal cannabis.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.546
Threshold uncertainty score0.878

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.090
GPT teacher head0.436
Teacher spread0.346 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it