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Wade Laughter passed away last week after a long battle with cancer. Beloved within the cannabis community as the modest, softspoken horticulturist with a big heart and a great last name, Wade is one of the unsung heroes of botanical CBD that took root in northern California in the early 2010s. At that time, hardly anyone knew about nonintoxicating cannabidiol and its remarkable therapeutic potential outside of a small group of scientists who were studying the endocannabinoid system. Word about CBD started to spread within medical marijuana circles when a handful of CBD-rich cannabis cultivars were identified by newly established analytical labs servicing the nascent cannabis industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of these CBD-rich varietals was \u201cHarlequin,\u201d so named by Wade Laughter, who didn\u2019t take credit for breeding it. He said he merely discovered it. And we were very fortunate that he did. With CBD emerging as the exciting new kid on the cannabinoid block, several early adopters who had access to rare CBD-rich genetics were initially skittish about releasing their proprietary property. Not so with Wade Laughter.<\/p>\n

Wade didn\u2019t feel like he was the rightful owner of Harlequin. Nor was anyone else. He had been gifted this plant serendipitously, and he would gift it back to the community. He opted to make Harlequin available to anyone who was interested in growing it and exploring its healing attributes. Harlequin clones began to \u201cseed\u201d the California cannabis landscape, and soon Wade\u2019s gift popped up in other states, as well. Thus began an unsupervised, mass-based medical experiment, a grassroots laboratory experiment in democracy, enabled by Laughter\u2019s decision to share Harlequin with the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What would happen when a lot of people consumed CBD-rich cannabis?\u00a0 The preclinical science \u2014 attesting to the compound\u2019s anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant, anti-tumoral, neuroprotective, and analgesic properties \u2014 was nothing short of jaw-dropping. Thus far, however, most of the scientific studies involved single-molecule CBD tested on mice, rather than whole-plant CBD-rich cannabis flower and oil extract, which is what Wade was providing in California.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I grew some Harlequin in my backyard in 2011 and 2012. It was a squat, indica-looking plant, three-and-a-half-feet tall, very bushy with huge odiferous purple-pinkish colas oozing medicated goo that contained a significant amount of both CBD and THC. This gorgeous botanical tested at close to a 1:1 CBD:THC ratio. The CBD:THC ratio, which fluctuated from garden to garden, was influenced by how long these plants stayed in the ground. (A somewhat earlier harvest might register 3:2 CBD:THC, while a later harvest might shift it to 2:3 CBD:THC.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some of my humble harvest, I later learned, travelled to the east coast and found its way to the stash of Harvard professor emeritus and prominent medical cannabis advocate Dr. Lester Greenspan, who sang the praises of Harlequin as a pleasant energizer and uplifting balm for stiff seniors. Harlequin was euphoria-inducing, but in a somewhat different way from the ubiquitous THC-dominant fare. CBD seemed to lower the ceiling on the THC high while extending its duration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the early going THC, The High Causer, was always a key part of the CBD-rich equation. Within a few years, however, Harlequin and several other cannabis chemovars with roughly equal parts CBD and THC \u2014 Jamaican Lion, OmRita RX, Blue Jay Way (a True Blueberry\/OG Kush cross), and Lawrence Ringo\u2019s Sour Tsunami \u2014 were overshadowed by a surge of popular interest in nonintoxicating, high-CBD\/low-THC cannabis oil extracts, misconstrued as \u201chemp\u201d and much sought-after as an alternative treatment for epilepsy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While a green rush of investors and grifters went all in on the cannabis that doesn\u2019t get you high (until the market for over-produced CBD isolate crashed), Wade Laughter stayed the course as the curator of the \u201cHouse of Harlequin,\u201d which he established and maintained in Grass Valley with his partner Monica Senter. Wade was a key figure in the Caladrius Netwok, a nonprofit that provided cannabis-based medicine (flower and full-spectrum extract) to terminally ill and catastrophically ill children.<\/p>\n

Wade dedicated his life to helping others, no strings attached, without expecting a return favor. His kindness came from a deep place, \u201ca foundation of true selflessness,\u201d as one of Wade\u2019s close friends put it. \u201cHe gave freely, with an open heart, without making others feel small. He served quietly without needing applause. He stood beside the vulnerable, not above them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Martin A. Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n

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