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Cannabis breeders in the United States

American cannabis breeding ran underground for almost three decades before state legalization opened a legitimate seed market, and that history shaped a culture organized around clone-only cuts rather than seed lines. West Coast breeding in particular built itself around prized mother plants — OG Kush, Chemdawg, the original Cookies cuts — circulated hand-to-hand through California and never released to the broader public as stable seed. The OG Kush family itself is widely traced to a Florida phenotype hunt in the early 1990s that travelled west to Los Angeles, where it became the genetic backbone of an entire generation of California work. When the medical crackdowns of the early 2000s forced breeders to leave the country, DNA Genetics relocated from Los Angeles to Amsterdam in 2003 — and once state-level legalization took hold a decade later, American breeders rebuilt at home through programs like Cookies Family, Seed Junky, Cannarado, Top Dawg, and Cali Connection. The catalogues on this page reflect that arc: West Coast Cookies and OG work, Colorado dispensary breeders, and the East Coast Chemdawg preservationists who kept the 1991 cut alive long enough for the rest of the family tree to be written.