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The Roll-Up #119: Can you patent weed?

Published on December 13, 2019 · Last updated July 28, 2020
(Gillian Levine for Leafly)

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The Roll-Up features co-hosts Bruce Barcott and Alyssa Yeoman in a Friday morning roundtable about the week’s top cannabis news.

Episode 119: Can you patent a cannabis plant?

This week: David Bienenstock unveils the wild world of cannabis patent inventors, assignees, and trolls.

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Every Friday the Roll-Up crew—Bruce Barcott, Alyssa Yeoman, and special guests—dissect the week’s top stories in cannabis with analysis, arguments, jokes, and obscure cultural references. It’s a news and culture podcast, slightly elevated.

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