My name is Michael Beck. Some may know me by the synonym “MoD” under which I founded the seed bank “Alpine-Seeds” in 2009. I have written for several hemp magazines under different author names, including the THCene, the Hanfblatt or the English Skunk magazine. In 2006, I started a learning course in molecular genetics for three years, which I unfortunately could not complete because of my former employer, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. In 2013, I wrote the “Encyclopedia of Cannabis Breeding”, a book that deals exclusively with the breeding and heredity of cannabis sativa and details and describes the genetic side of hemp.