FORENSIC scientists in the US are applying DNA fingerprinting methods to the cannabis plant. They say the technique, which is being used to create a database of DNA profiles of different marijuana plants, will help them to trace the source of any sample.
“It links everybody together: the user, the distributor, the grower,” says the database’s creator, Heather Miller Coyle of the Connecticut State Forensic Science Laboratory in Meriden. “That’s the real intent of it, to show it’s not just one guy with a little bag of marijuana, but it’s a group of people.”
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