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LeafWorks Inc., a botanical genomics company, part of $2.7M California state grant researching legacy cannabis and culture

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023
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SEBASTOPOL, Calif., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- LeafWorks Inc. joins the first state-funded multidisciplinary coalition across the California cannabis industry to research the genetics of legacy cannabis and provide a comprehensive picture of the impacts of legacy cultivation, policy and criminalization on the cannabis community. In the study titled ‒Legacy Cannabis Genetics: People and Their Plants, a Community-Driven Study– awarded $2.7M by the California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC), the coalition will identify, document, and help preserve the history, value, and diversity of California's legacy cannabis genetics and the communities that steward them. The research awardees include Principal Investigator Dr. Dominic Corva, Sociology professor and Cannabis Studies Program Director at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt; Co-Principal Investigator Genine Coleman, Executive Director of California nonprofit public policy and research institute Origins Council; Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Eleanor Kuntz, Co-founder of Canndor, the world's first cannabis herbarium, and Co-founder and CEO of LeafWorks, a genomics and plant science company, Co-Principal Investigator DR. Rachel F. Giraudo, Associate Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Northridge; Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Todd Holmes, historian with the Oral History Center at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Research partners include the Canndor Herbarium and the statewide equity advocacy organization Cannabis Equity Policy Council. With California as the hub for the largest, most diverse collection of legacy cannabis in the country, this state grant will be a substantial contributor to characterization and preservation of this important legacy community and germplasm for the industry. Of the 16 California DCC awardees (16% fund rate), this innovative study was the largest award winner, representing over 12% of the entire grant budget.

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  • Grant supports the first-ever coalition of state universities, nonprofits, and researchers to conduct a community-driven two-year study of legacy cannabis genetics.
  • LeafWorks will lead the genetic analysis to characterize and promote protection of community-held legacy cultivars.
  • SEBASTOPOL, Calif., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- LeafWorks Inc. joins the first state-funded multidisciplinary coalition across the California cannabis industry to research the genetics of legacy cannabis and provide a comprehensive picture of the impacts of legacy cultivation, policy and criminalization on the cannabis community.
  • ‒LeafWorks is proud to be part of this groundbreaking study documenting legacy cannabis genetics in California.

"Ode to January 6th" Painting Unveiled by Elaine Badgley Arnoux

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Wednesday, June 8, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of the January 6th Congressional hearings, famed San Francisco artist Elaine Badgley Arnoux (www.badgleyarts.com), 96, is unveiling a wall-sized indictment of the 45th President, the GOP and the anti-democratic forces that laid siege to the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a failed coup attempt.

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  • "This is the January 6th Guernica," said Arnoux, referring to Picasso's famous painting following the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
  • Badgley-Arnoux hopes the painting will become a rallying cry for the mid-term elections and beyond.
  • Elaine Badgley Arnoux was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1926 and moved to Southern California when she was 11.
  • In 1952 Badgley Arnoux co-founded the San Luis Obispo Art Association.

Longtime Press Agent Lee Houskeeper Announces Robert Altman, Legendary '60s Rolling Stone Chief Photographer, Dies at 76

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
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"Altman's The Sixties book cover image was incorporated into fashion designer Paco Rabanne's Paris Fashion Week Spring 2011 garments.

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  • "Altman's The Sixties book cover image was incorporated into fashion designer Paco Rabanne's Paris Fashion Week Spring 2011 garments.
  • Frankie Anne, friend and director, who Robert honored to produce and direct the documentary, recalls her years working with Robert.
  • As one of the lead Rolling Stone photographers, Altman's exquisitely candid shots capture the historic moments that have come to define the '60s."
  • UC Berkeley acquired Altman's work to form the Robert Altman Photograph Archive, now living in the Bancroft Library, serving as primary research on the American West.