CANNALIB · HONESTY RULES · FROZEN 2026-09-14
Do not invent. Do not blend. Do not merge. Do not shred.
Grow catalogues either sell, scrape, or ship a small dump and call it the catalogue. CannaLib is built on four refusals, and each one has a count behind it. The catalogue would rather show a hole than invent a number you will grow against.
● API 0.7.0-stdlib · 143,612 strains served
● counts from the 14 Sep 2026 freeze
DO NOT INVENT
No number that no source stated
No height in centimetres from Short, Medium or Tall. No THC percentage from Very High. No PPFD grid from vibes. No terpene unit when the source gives none.
131,857 terpene values shown without a unit
14,622 parent names kept unmatched, not guessed
DO NOT BLEND
No averages across sources
Conflicting chemistry keeps every row. The card shows the value most independent sources agree on, and every other claim beside it with its source. Notes stay documents.
34,916 strains where sources disagree on THC, all shown
7,981 strains with THC stated by 3+ independent sources
DO NOT MERGE
Two facts stay two facts
Indoor and outdoor height are separate. Flavour is not aroma. Medical effects are not negative effects. Subtypes never inherit a parent's chemistry.
14,398 sub-varieties linked to their base, not merged into it
119,307 product and label names kept off the strain count
DO NOT SHRED
Ranges stay ranges, empty stays empty
Evidence arrives as spans. Printing only the top end is shredding with better typography. A JSON leaf is never dropped for not being on a preferred list.
342,460 unusable records withdrawn to a ledger, never deleted
271,392 parent claims quarantined, not published
A NUMBER WE REFUSED TO FIX
8385 raw stays raw.
A chemistry observation landed at 8385. That is not a percent. Clamping it to 100 would have made a prettier card and a worse grow. We flag it, keep the row, and let you see the dirt. Same rule as height: no centimetres invented from Short, Medium or Tall.
A PICK WE REFUSED TO MAKE
Corroboration first, trust ladder second.
The card picks the value stated by the most distinct sources; lab replicates of one source count once. The trust ladder (lab, then bank, then directory, then forum) only breaks ties. Blue Dream's card says 17 percent from eight sources instead of one lab's 20.4.
What the ledger holds
243,421 chemistry rows flagged and never used as potency: moisture tests, placeholder values, pooled summaries. · 119,307 names on the product and label ledger: SKUs, lab sample codes, listing titles, forum thread titles, error pages. · 342,460 withdrawn records, each with the reason it was withdrawn. Nothing on the ledger is deleted, nothing on it is served as a strain.
HOW IT WORKS
Dumps, staging, merge, ledger, API.
Online is the catalogue. Search and the explorer hit the live API. A Digital Stealth Care hub can keep a smaller offline card set as a fallback; that set is not the research catalogue and is never added to it.
Collation keeps the long tail. Append-only observations. Identity keeps F1, OG, backcross, cut and auto apart. Unmatched parents go to a list, not a guess.
Lineage is structured only. Parent links come from named sources with their confidence; never fuzzy, never copied up from a parent.
Redistribution is curated. Scraped bank dumps are not a public zip. Query the live API.