Humboldt Grace, a DreamMaker project of The Ink People Center for the Arts, has launched the Humboldt Grace Cannabis Ethics Campaign — an education and community engagement initiative designed to uplift the voices of legacy cultivators, Indigenous partners, caregivers, scientists, and modern entrepreneurs in shaping a more ethical cannabis future.
The survey invites anyone with lived experience in cannabis — from growers and breeders to patients, scientists, and policymakers — to share their views on what ethical cannabis means to them. The survey is available now at the link here.
"Ethics are the roots of a just, sustainable, and inclusive cannabis industry," said Lelehnia DuBois, Founder of Humboldt Grace and Director of the Humboldt Legacy Project. "We built an ethical pathway for genetics in our first white paper, our second is tested the process using Skunk #1 as the beta varietal, and now we feel the global cannabis community should put in its two cents about ethics around the plant itself."
"Ethics used to be all that held the underground cannabis counterculture together. In the light of Post-Prohibition cannabis industry." Caleb Chen, The Highest Critic.
Building on the work of the Humboldt Legacy Project
The Humboldt Legacy Project has been exploring how cultural values and scientific data can work together to protect, authenticate, and value cannabis genetics and heritage.
The first Humboldt Legacy Project white paper in 2022 established an ethical pathway for genetics. The second applies that framework with the infamous varietal Skunk #1 , testing ethical pathways in practice. This new survey expands that work by collecting community insights to help open up the conversation around ethics as cannabis legalization globalizes.
The public survey is open now through December 31st, 2025, with findings to be published in early 2026 as part of Humboldt Grace's Humboldt Legacy Project.
For more information:
Humboldt Grace
humboldtgrace.org/
