Marijuana DNA database can track pot’s origins | Hemp Beach TV Stoner News & Television Network HBTV Stoner Television Network: "There is a new tool in the ongoing war on drugs and it comes from a forensic scientist at the University of New Haven. Heather Miller Coyle, an associate professor in the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences is setting up a national databank that will allow law enforcement to track marijuana DNA.
Most people probably didn’t even know marijuana had DNA, but Coyle, who specializes in forensic botany, has developed a new method for collecting the drug’s genetic fingerprint, making it easy for officers to collect the samples at crime scenes.
“Plant DNA is like the DNA found in humans — it retains its lifelong genetic profile,” says Coyle. “If one person has a suitcase of marijuana and another person has bags of it, we will be able to tell if it came from the same batch,” she said in a news release."
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