Learn what independent growers and breeders should be doing now — at the dawn of cannabis gene sequencing — in order to stymie a takeover by the likes of Monsanto when weed becomes fully legal.

The Hash’s Max Savage Levenson catches up with Dr. Reggie Gaudino, Ph.D, Director of Genetics from Steep Hill Labs, at the cannabis industry’s first technology conference, the New West Summit in San Francisco.