Can we get a legal exact replicate of weed that is simply defined as another species to circumvent this arcane bullshit?
Oh no, my fine sir - that's not cannabis. It happens to be its minorly epigenetically modified yet distinct plant, similar to legal hops in beer and exactly the same to the types of modifications we make in other crop plants (all you would need to do is add a PROVEN MEDICAL BENEFIT TO DESTROY CATEGORY 1 - i.e. add beta carotene or any old proven health benefit just like they did with rice for 3rd world), that we just have to pick out a new name for our new plant.
Problem of legal battles for 20 years and all this bullshit averted, and Monsanto and Marlboro get to go at it instead.
I assume you mean "Can we create some plant which has the exact same pyschoactive properties as weed, without being classified as weed." This is what things like "spice" are trying to be. You create a chemical compound which (hopefully) binds to the same receptor sites as THC/other cannaboids in weed do, then apply it to (hopefully) safe to burn plant matter.
Furthermore, very few people who enjoy weed think spice/K2/ artificial cannaboids are a suitable replacement. Essentially you can only create things very close to the cannaboids found in weed, you cannot create a 1:1 high experience between the two, because two different molecules will have two different sets of properties, always. I am sure you COULD genetically modify some plant to produce these chemicals, but spice derivatives are being banned almost as fast as they are being made. The whole point of gray market chems is that they can be turned out faster than legislation to ban them, so slowing production down with genetic modification kills that process. The investment needed to produce a plant which produces a chemical like this would be (I would think) VERY high and VERY time consuming, plus, the legislation would probably have moved on by the time you were done engineering your plant, banning the substance.
It sounds like you are just throwing words around, not really knowing what they entail. I don't know what to make of this, except to say you need to look into epigenetics a bit more, that is not the same thing as what you were initially purposing.
No weed strain is even remotely similar/related to hops. At all. Are you suggesting we genetically modify hops to produce cannaboids? Why hops?
No, no that would not be "all" we have to do. Cannabis already has proven medicinal values, this should, admittedly, lead to a rescheduling of the drug under the current system, but it HAS NOT. It is very unlikely that, given the almost impossible scenario listed above, and you actually have this magic plant, that it would not be scheduled under the analogs act.